The Accidental Framework

The thing I built was a Go binary that copied markdown files into a repository. I called it an installer. The README called it an installer. The CLI verb was init. For the several months in early 2026, that framing held. Then I sat down to plan the 1.0 release, started typing, and could not write the next paragraph without using the word framework . Not in the marketing-blurb sense. In the load-bearing sense: a small runtime, a set of named extension points, conventional file layouts, a resolver that picked