Archify

# Archify

Create checked standalone HTML as a native diagram or a one-page explainer that answers a question.

Run commands from your working directory. Unless the user names another location, give each new artifact request its own folder `.archify/<type>-<slug>-<YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS>/` there (local time, chosen once): keep the candidate and `<slug>.html` in it and reuse it for repairs. Native diagrams use `candidate.json` with `meta.output` relative to the working directory; explainers may use `candidate.archify.md` and a portable output filename. A later request gets a new folder. Replace `bin/archify.mjs` in every command with the installed package's absolute path, or its path relative to your working directory; CLI input and output paths resolve from that directory.

For a native diagram of a real codebase, read [Repository authoring](references/repository-authoring.md) while tracing the requested behavior. A system description uses the native steps below; a frozen candidate uses the handoff path.

## Choose the artifact

- When the user asks to draw or visualize a system, flow, schema or history, use a native diagram and the Type router.
- Use `explainer` when the user asks for the answer as a page: a page, one page, an explainer, something to share (“做成一页”, “用页面讲”, “answer with a page”). Without such a request, answer in text or draw the requested diagram. A page made on request ends its reply with the one-line mode offer under Output.