docs: publish the docs as a site that shows a real run and every line to edit

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web-mirror has no flags and no environment variables. To use it you edit four lines in src/main2.py, add --platform linux/amd64 on an Apple Silicon Mac, and then check what a run wrote. The README said none of this about arm64, and there was no docs page to point at. This PR publishes the docs as a site at https://geiserx.github.io/web-mirror/, and the strict build fails on a broken link.

What a first-time visitor gets

• A home page with the banner, badges (pulls, stars, release, license), a short pitch and four cards: Getting started, Point it at your site, Serve the copy, How it works. Under them is a picture of a real run. It shows the amd64 build on an Apple Silicon Mac, the one log line for example.com, the two files written, and nginx serving the copy. It also covers what web-mirror saves, what it does not save, and how it runs.
• Seven pages, grouped in tabs: Get started (Getting started, Usage), Reference (Configuration, How it works, Troubleshooting), Development (Development, Related projects).
• Configuration lists every constant in src/main2.py by line number. Those constants are the only settings.
• Troubleshooting has an entry for each failure seen while building and running the image on Apple Silicon: the arm64 manifest error, the Chromium crash under QEMU, folder sharing, a full Docker disk, the placeholder's ConnectionError, and the video src and KeyError cases.
• Usage pulls in nginx/default.conf with pymdownx.snippets. The site can't drift from the real config, and a rename of that file fails the build.
• README: the run screenshot before Features, one sentence on the arm64 flag and Rosetta in Quick start, and a Documentation list that links the site.
• The logo and favicon come from the mirror ball in docs/images/banner.svg. The colours come from the banner too.

The URL contract

The README links eight site URLs. Each one is checked against the built site/, with a URL that must fail as the control:

ok       https://geiserx.github.io/web-mirror/
ok       https://geiserx.github.io/web-mirror/getting-started/
ok       https://geiserx.github.io/web-mirror/usage/
ok       https://geiserx.github.io/web-mirror/configuration/
ok       https://geiserx.github.io/web-mirror/how-it-works/
ok       https://geiserx.github.io/web-mirror/troubleshooting/
ok       https://geiserx.github.io/web-mirror/development/
ok       https://geiserx.github.io/web-mirror/related/
fail=0
--- control
MISSING  https://geiserx.github.io/web-mirror/installation/
fail=1

All eight site URLs in the README are in the contract. test ! -e site/manifest.json passes (0 files named manifest.json in site/). Nothing was served here before, so no old URL has to keep working and there are no redirects.

Strict build, both ways

Run with mkdocs-material==9.7.7 (MkDocs 1.6.1, Python 3.14):

$ mkdocs build --strict        # exit 0, 0 warnings
INFO    -  Documentation built in 0.18 seconds

# with [planted](no-such-page.md) appended to docs/usage.md
$ mkdocs build --strict        # exit 1
WARNING -  Doc file 'usage.md' contains a link 'no-such-page.md', but the target is not found among documentation files.
Aborted with 1 warnings in strict mode!

# plant removed
$ mkdocs build --strict        # exit 0
INFO    -  Documentation built in 0.25 seconds

Checks on the built markup: the side nav is hidden on the home page (1) and shown on Usage (0 hidden). The table of contents is present on the home page (0 hidden). No :material- shortcode is left as text (0). The header logo is present (2). The nginx include renders (listen 80; and autoindex on; are in the page, and --8<-- is not). Every page is linked from docs/index.md, and the control run with related.md unlinked fails. actionlint passes on docs.yml.

Pages hosting

Pages was off (has_pages: false, nothing served). It is now on with the Actions source: gh api -X POST repos/GeiserX/web-mirror/pages -f build_type=workflow returned build_type: workflow. The new .github/workflows/docs.yml is the shared template with nginx/default.conf added to the push paths. It runs the strict build on every pull request and deploys the Pages artifact from main only. It has no gh-pages branch and needs no contents: write. The five action SHAs were checked against their tags. A Dependabot pip block for /docs watches the Material pin. The website field stays empty until the site answers after the merge.

Deviations from the plan

• Branch docs/mkdocs-site instead of docs/site.
• The Development page's docker-publish.yml row also lists the workflow file itself as a trigger, because its paths include it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a project guide covering setup, configuration, usage, troubleshooting, development, and how web-mirror works.
  • Expanded the README with a sample screenshot, Apple Silicon guidance, and links to the documentation.
  • Documented supported platforms, sitemap and video behavior, offline serving, and common issues.
• New Features
  • Added automated documentation builds for pull requests, main-branch changes, and manual runs. Successful non-PR builds can be deployed to GitHub Pages.
  • Added weekly checks for documentation dependencies.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds a MkDocs Material documentation site with project guides, navigation, styling, and strict-build settings. Adds a GitHub Actions workflow to build the site on pull requests and publish it to GitHub Pages on non-PR runs, plus Dependabot updates for documentation dependencies.

Changes

Documentation site and publishing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure MkDocs site and theme docs/requirements-docs.txt, mkdocs.yml, docs/stylesheets/theme.css	Adds the pinned MkDocs Material dependency, site configuration and navigation, validation settings, Markdown extensions, and theme styling.
Document the project and getting started docs/index.md, docs/getting-started.md, docs/related.md, README.md	Adds a project overview, setup steps, screenshots, and links to related projects and documentation.
Document configuration and runtime behavior docs/configuration.md, docs/usage.md, docs/how-it-works.md, docs/troubleshooting.md	Documents settings, run behavior, saved files, offline serving, container execution, and troubleshooting steps.
Build, publish, and document maintenance .github/workflows/docs.yml, .github/dependabot.yml, docs/development.md	Adds strict documentation builds, conditional Pages publishing, Dependabot coverage for documentation dependencies, and development guidance.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 62cea

This adds a documentation site and publishing workflow. Two guide passages could mislead readers about sitemap fetching and a disk-full diagnosis. They are small wording fixes and do not block merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 62cea

Pull-request builds are separated from publishing permissions, and successful validation is required before deployment. However, manual runs are not restricted to main and different branches are not serialized against the same publishing destination. Whether deployment protections prevent unintended publication remains unverified. The identified exposure is limited to the documentation site and requires permission to dispatch the workflow.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: Manual dispatch can make a non-main ref eligible for publication, contrary to the workflow's stated main-only deployment behavior. Because concurrency groups differ by ref, that run can also proceed alongside a main deployment to the same site. An actor needs workflow-dispatch authority, and external environment rules may prevent publication; those rules are unverified. If permitted, stale or non-main documentation can replace the authoritative public site.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified publication-control concern affects the repository's public documentation site. The inspected deployment job receives Pages authority, not repository content-write authority, and has no application deployment step.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — An actor authorized to dispatch the workflow could select a non-main ref containing stale or altered documentation. That run passes the non-PR deployment condition and uses a different concurrency group from main. Publication remains conditional on successful validation and external Pages authorization; an unauthenticated or ordinary PR-only attack path was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — PR-controlled documentation and dependencies execute in the build job, but pull_request events cannot upload the Pages artifact or enter the deployment job under the inspected workflow. Deployment names the github-pages environment; its approval and allowed-branch policies are not established by this source.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Build failure prevents downstream deployment, and successful publication consumes the generated site artifact. The workflow disables cancellation of an active same-ref run but does not define post-deployment verification or automatic recovery. Provider-side atomic replacement and rollback guarantees remain outside the supplied evidence.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If publication is intended to be main-only, enforce that ref restriction for manual runs and verify matching environment branch protections. If non-main publication is intentional, explicitly gate it and coordinate all publishers against the shared Pages destination rather than separate ref-scoped locks.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: publishing a documentation site with a real-run example and instructions for the required source edits.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Review comments at @docs/configuration.md:
- Line 29: Update docs/configuration.md at line 29 to replace the claim that the
sitemap fetch runs on every start with cache-aware wording, requiring host
connectivity only on a cache miss. Update docs/how-it-works.md at line 29 to
explain that a cached response is parsed when available and the site is
contacted on a cache miss. Update docs/troubleshooting.md at line 51 to clarify
that the shown ConnectionError can occur on a cache miss, such as a first run or
after clearing the cache.

Review comments at @docs/troubleshooting.md:
- Line 43: Update the APT troubleshooting guidance so it presents Docker disk
exhaustion as one possible cause, not a conclusion from the error signature.
Tell users to check `docker system df` before recommending image pruning or
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