Release Markdown 1.0 with stable extension APIs and compatibility gates

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Release the documented Markdown parser, HTML/React/Octane renderers, public AST, and extension APIs as 1.0. Adds the optional source-level inline parser hook from #19, preserving default syntax and escape/code precedence, with shared recursion/scan budgets and documented trusted callbacks.

Includes original author commits from #19 and Karthick Raja's documentation link fix from #21. Closes #19. Closes #21. Optional autolinks #20 remains separate.

The 1.0 compatibility guide defines public API/AST guarantees, output semantics, security boundaries, and supported runtimes. Existing 0.0.16 calls need no migration. Major Changeset resolves to exactly @tanstack/markdown@1.0.0.

Release gates cover Node 22/24 and React 18.0/19 packed archive consumers, installed TypeScript declarations, serialized AST parity, React/Octane SSR, and Chromium/Firefox/WebKit hydration/streaming. Packed and browser checks explicitly exercise the new hook. Release automation reuses the full gate without repeating verification before selecting the release operation.

Uses the actual published Highlight 1.0 dev dependency. The exact-version first-party age exception combines 0.0.1 and 1.0.0 in one supported pnpm rule because its first matching package rule otherwise shadows later versions.

Callback-returned containers containing descendant links now prevent an outer Markdown link from wrapping them, preserving valid anchor nesting across HTML, React, and Octane. Regression tests cover strong, emphasis, strike, and inline components.

Validation:

• Focused 24 inline-hook tests and 3 Highlight integration tests pass.
• Build, typecheck, 28-page docs checks, and isolated installed-package tests pass.
• Local Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit each pass 30 streaming/hydration checks, including source callbacks and link-label context. Tests await a React effect commit marker before updates, avoiding a Firefox early-update race from assuming two animation frames complete hydration.
• Reviewed hook candidate preserves 403 CommonMark baseline matches and has refreshed Node 24 size reports and recorded paired performance measurements.
• Current-head CI runs all runtime/browser/core/corpus checks. Final-archive TanStack.com validation passed 540 tests (3 skipped), production build, and browser SSR/hydration/copy/theme/streaming checks with the published Highlight 1.0.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added opt-in inline parsers that let extensions recognize custom syntax directly in Markdown source, with defined parsing order and safeguards for invalid results.
• Documentation
  • Added Version 1 compatibility and upgrade guidance, including API stability, rendering and security boundaries, and cache considerations.
  • Expanded extension documentation with inline parser behavior, constraints, and examples.
• Compatibility
  • Documented support for React 18 and 19, the package format, and runtime expectations. Upgrade guidance covers changes for users moving from version 0.0.16.

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The changes add source-level inline parsers to Markdown extensions, document Version 1 compatibility, and expand package and browser validation. They also update documentation links and validation, release workflow checks, bundle limits, and generated reports.

Changes

Inline source parser

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Inline parser contract and dispatch src/types.ts, src/inline.ts	Extensions can declare source markers and receive source position, options, link context, and a recursive parser. The parser validates consumed UTF-16 lengths and shares parsing budgets and link context across recursive parsing.
Parser tests and renderer validation tests/inline-parsers.test.tsx, tests/browser/streaming.tsx, tests/bundle-size.test.ts	Tests cover parser ordering, escaping, nesting, limits, Unicode, serialization, and rendering across adapters. Browser tests check hydration and streaming updates with an inline parser. Bundle-size ceilings are updated.
Parser guidance and measurements docs/guides/extensions.md, docs/reference/types.md, skills/custom-extensions/SKILL.md, skills/render-markdown/references/ast-and-options.md, reports/inline-parsers.md, reports/benchmarks.*, reports/sizes.*, reports/conformance.*, .changeset/inline-source-parsers.md	Documentation describes the parser contract and constraints. The changeset records the feature, and generated reports refresh measurements and timestamps.

Version 1 compatibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Compatibility policy and upgrade guidance .changeset/markdown-one.md, docs/project/faq.md, docs/project/version-one.md, docs/config.json	The new guide describes Version 1 API and AST compatibility, rendering and security boundaries, tested environments, and upgrade steps. The FAQ updates AST guidance, and navigation links to the guide.
Package and browser validation .github/workflows/ci.yml, package.json, scripts/verify-package.mjs, scripts/verify-streaming-browser.ts, pnpm-workspace.yaml	The reusable CI workflow tests package consumers across Node.js and React versions and browser streaming across React versions and browser engines. The package verification script checks exports, rendering, URL handling, SSR, and TypeScript compilation.
Release workflow gate .github/workflows/release.yml	The release workflow runs the reusable compatibility workflow before verification.

Documentation links

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Markdown links and validation docs/comparison.md, docs/core-concepts/*, docs/guides/docs-preset.md, docs/installation.md, docs/overview.md, docs/quick-start.md, docs/project/faq.md, docs/reference/*, scripts/verify-docs.mjs	Internal documentation links now use explicit relative .md paths. The link validator flags local Markdown paths without .md or .mdx extensions and checks anchors only for Markdown targets. Bundle-size figures and links in the comparison page are updated.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant InlineScanner
  participant ExtensionParser
  InlineScanner->>ExtensionParser: provide source, position, options, and link context
  ExtensionParser-->>InlineScanner: return node and consumed UTF-16 length
  InlineScanner->>InlineScanner: validate result and continue scanning

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Possibly related PRs

• TanStack/markdown#19: Adds the same inline parser extension contract and implementation addressed by this pull request.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to cc746

The inline parser is opt-in, and the compatibility and documentation checks are included in the release workflow. No actionable merge risk is established; the change is ready for normal merge checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to cc746

The optional hook preserves default escaping and URL controls. Its recursive helper has a limited error-recovery weakness, but the effect is contained to parsing with application-owned extensions. No exploitable security bypass is established.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: The new recursive helper shares depth and link accounting with its caller, but nested exceptions bypass depth cleanup and can leave partial link accounting. A trusted extension that catches such an exception can continue with altered parser state, prematurely reaching plain-text fallback or suppressing subsequent link wrappers. Fresh top-level budgets contain the effect; no cross-request leakage or security-control bypass is demonstrated.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Effective exposure depends on which applications install inline callbacks and accept untrusted Markdown. Callback work executes in the host application, and callback-produced AST values reach rendered content. Shared parser budgets do not bound arbitrary callback work. No consumer inventory establishes tenant, service, or environment exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The boundary is between potentially untrusted Markdown and application-selected, trusted extension code. Escapes and code spans precede dispatch; callbacks cannot consume beyond their current container. Ordinary renderer escaping remains active, but returned URLs require extension validation and raw HTML remains an explicit trusted-content option.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Uncaught callback failures abort the invocation, and fresh top-level budgets isolate later invocations. Recovery inside a callback is less well contained: shared state remains accessible after nested failure. The demonstrated consequence is parsing degradation within that invocation, not increased authority or weakened escaping.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define recursive-helper lifetime and recovery semantics. If caught nested failures are supported, balance depth cleanup on exceptional exits and define how partial link accounting is committed or discarded, while keeping scan charges monotonic so recovery cannot replenish work budgets.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The PR includes changes that do not implement [#19] or [#21]. These changes include the 1.0 compatibility guide and release changeset, package archive verification, React and Highlight dependency upda…	Remove the release, compatibility, package-verification, dependency, report, workflow, and unrelated CI changes from this PR, or move them to separate PRs linked to matching active issues. Keep the inline-parser implementation and focused v…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 8 files. (7 skipped: 7 …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR meets the coding requirements in [#19] and [#21]. For [#19], src/types.ts defines MarkdownExtension.inlineParser, parser context, and consumed-length results. src/inline.ts adds marker di…
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary changes: the Markdown 1.0 release, stable extension APIs, and compatibility validation.

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Explanation

The PR includes changes that do not implement [#19] or [#21]. These changes include the 1.0 compatibility guide and release changeset, package archive verification, React and Highlight dependency updates, bundle and benchmark report refreshes, release workflow changes, consumer and browser CI jobs, and unrelated streaming validation. The inline-parser implementation, focused tests, documentation, and changeset support [#19]. The .md link updates and verify-docs.mjs check support [#21].

Resolution

Remove the release, compatibility, package-verification, dependency, report, workflow, and unrelated CI changes from this PR, or move them to separate PRs linked to matching active issues. Keep the inline-parser implementation and focused validation for [#19], and the documentation-link updates with the verify-docs.mjs regression check for [#21].

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 8 files. (7 skipped: 7 unsupported.)

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