@eto-press/press

The printing press, not the paper.

The thin binding that makes a directory into a paper. It reads sources.toml (the editorial line) and eto.toml (the nameplate and plumbing), keeps its journal in db/, prints to archive/ and site/, and reaches outside that directory only to read the news through the front door and — if configured — to send the mail and write the backups. The press never owns a paper; it visits one.

Since generation 2 the press is the frame of the morning: preflight (the mastheads, migrations, model pins through the inference boundary), the engine registry (eto, desk, letter, digest, sports, wrap, shelf, ledger), the joint where an engine prints one section's whole edition in one call, and the tail: the archive write, the published-edition store, the report. Since generation 3 a paper is sections — [[section]] blocks in eto.toml, each naming an engine and a source file, printed in order and bound into one morning; a paper that declares none is one section on [engine] use from sources.toml, as before. The other verbs — render, email, correct, export, backup — are here too; the eto command in @eto-press/cli is the way to call them. The engine interface is public at @eto-press/press/engine.

In a paper

npm install @eto-press/press @eto-press/cli
npx eto doctor
npx eto print

@eto-press/press exports the public API (nightly, Inference, Ollama, the masthead schema, config); the verbs are subpath exports (@eto-press/press/main, /render-site, /send-edition, …), and the default theme is reachable as @eto-press/press/brief.css for skins written against generation 2.

License: AGPL-3.0-only.