{
  "schema_version": "v1.0",
  "purpose": "Canonical source of truth for the Alexanarch top-of-page navigation bar. Every renderer (wire_deposit.py, regenerate_surfaces.py, generate_observatory.py) reads this file. Authored static pages get synced via scripts/sync_navbars.py. To change the nav: edit this file, then run scripts/sync_navbars.py and regenerate_surfaces.py.",
  "effective_date": "2026-06-23",
  "items": [
    {"path": "/",              "label": "Alexanarch", "description": "Home — newest deposits, the corpus orientation"},
    {"path": "/s/browse/",     "label": "Browse",     "description": "Full deposit index, sortable, all 884 entries"},
    {"path": "/s/wiki/",       "label": "Wiki",       "description": "Deposit summaries with concept definitions"},
    {"path": "/s/graph/",      "label": "Graph",      "description": "Citation graph between deposits"},
    {"path": "/lexical/",      "label": "Lexical",    "description": "Lexical Minting Registry — coined terms"},
    {"path": "/citations/",    "label": "Citations",  "description": "Citation index across the corpus"},
    {"path": "/observatory/",  "label": "Observatory", "description": "Surface Weather Station — public-surface visibility measurements"},
    {"path": "/captures/",     "label": "Captures",   "description": "AI Overview Capture Registry — 176 captures"},
    {"path": "/resolve/",      "label": "Resolve",    "description": "Zenodo DOI Resolution Index — 1,817 DOIs"},
    {"path": "/addresses/",    "label": "Addresses",  "description": "Author and institutional address registry"},
    {"path": "/datasets/",     "label": "Datasets",   "description": "Machine-readable datasets index"},
    {"path": "/principles/",   "label": "Principles", "description": "Founding principles of Alexanarch"},
    {"path": "/identifiers/",  "label": "Identifiers", "description": "AXN protocol — content-derived identifiers"},
    {"path": "/deposit/",      "label": "Deposit",    "description": "How to deposit — self-serve [DEPOSIT] issue path"},
    {"path": "/guide/",        "label": "Guide",      "description": "Reading guide — entry points into the corpus"},
    {"path": "/manifest/",     "label": "Manifest",   "description": "Operating manifest — current state of the archive"}
  ],
  "render_specification": {
    "html_structure": "Single <nav class=\"nav\">...</nav> element. Each item rendered as <a href=\"...\">label</a> separated by spaces. The renderer may mark the active item via class=\"active\".",
    "fallback": "If this file cannot be read, renderers should emit the minimal core nav: Alexanarch · Browse · Deposit · Guide · Manifest"
  },
  "consumed_by": [
    "scripts/render_navbar.py — helper called by all generators",
    "wire_deposit.py — record pages",
    "scripts/regenerate_surfaces.py — browse, wiki, graph",
    "scripts/generate_observatory.py — observatory page",
    "scripts/sync_navbars.py — one-shot pass over authored static pages"
  ]
}