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Description

Refreshes the Understand GenLayer Protocol section to match the current protocol architecture and terminology.

  • Rewrites the protocol overview and all 24 core concept pages using the current consensus specification, developer documentation, and architecture materials
  • Clarifies Optimistic Democracy, the equivalence principle, validator roles, transaction lifecycle, appeals, finality, staking, slashing, and unstaking
  • Reorganizes navigation, removes shallow duplicate pages, and adds redirects for their previous URLs
  • Documents all 15 transaction statuses, including LeaderRevealing, in both the conceptual and node API references
  • Adds a protocol documentation map and an automated drift check for canonical links, status coverage, stale terminology, and moved-page redirects
  • Applies the Google developer documentation style guidance throughout

Validation

  • pnpm build
  • pnpm test:e2e — 152 passed
  • git diff --check

Source material

  • Current GenLayer consensus specification
  • GenLayer non-determinism and equivalence-principle developer documentation
  • GenLayer architecture article and internal architecture draft
  • Google developer documentation style guide

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Reorganized and expanded protocol guidance covering architecture, Intelligent Contracts, transactions, consensus, economics, validators, staking, appeals, and execution.
    • Added clearer navigation, diagrams, practical guidance, updated links, and transaction status code 14, LEADER_REVEALING, to the API reference.
  • Improvements
    • Redirected legacy protocol pages to the new GenLayer overview.
    • Added automated documentation validation during builds and pull requests to detect broken links, outdated routes, missing metadata, and formatting issues.

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Walkthrough

The PR restructures GenLayer protocol documentation, adds validation guidance and automation, updates legacy redirects, and documents transaction status 14 as LEADER_REVEALING.

Changes

Protocol documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Documentation validation and maintenance
.github/workflows/check-protocol-docs.yml, PROTOCOL_DOCUMENTATION.md, README.md, package.json, scripts/check-protocol-docs.js
Adds maintenance rules, image-alt validation, build integration, and a GitHub Actions workflow for protocol documentation.
Protocol overview and navigation
pages/understand-genlayer-protocol.mdx, pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts.mdx, pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/what-is-genlayer.mdx, pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/optimistic-democracy-how-genlayer-works.mdx, pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/typical-use-cases.mdx, pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/_meta.json, next.config.js
Rewrites overview, architecture, use-case, and navigation content. Redirects legacy overview routes to the consolidated protocol page.
Consensus and finality documentation
pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/optimistic-democracy/*, pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions/transaction-execution.mdx, pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions/transaction-statuses.mdx, pages/api-references/genlayer-node.mdx
Documents consensus rounds, equivalence validation, appeals, finality, execution states, and transaction statuses 0 through 14.
Execution, validator, and economic concepts
pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/{accounts-and-addresses,economic-model,genvm,large-language-model-llm-integration,non-deterministic-operations-handling,validators-and-validator-roles,web-data-access}.mdx, pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/optimistic-democracy/{staking,slashing,unstaking}.mdx, pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/rollup-integration.mdx
Rewrites documentation for execution, external data, accounts, chain integration, validators, staking, penalties, unstaking, and economics.
Transaction submission and type references
pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions.mdx, pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions/_meta.json, pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions/transaction-encoding-serialization-and-signing.mdx, pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions/types-of-transactions.mdx
Adds concise guidance for submission, encoding, signing, transaction types, messages, lifecycle states, and receipts.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1d02e

The PR updates protocol guidance without changing runtime behavior. Readers could be misled by inaccurate appeal paths and a noncanonical finality label, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to correct these documentation details.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title uses the Conventional Commits format and clearly summarizes the main documentation refresh.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required Description section and provides clear scope, validation results, and source material. It is complete and relevant to the changes.
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Actionable comments posted: 6

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/check-protocol-docs.yml:
- Around line 20-28: Update the actions/checkout step in the check job to use a
read-only repository token scope and disable persisted credentials, ensuring no
checkout token remains in local Git configuration before check-protocol-docs.js
runs.

In `@pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts.mdx`:
- Around line 20-21: Insert a blank line after the closing Cards JSX block and
before the “Consensus and transactions” heading, preserving the heading’s
Markdown semantics and sidebar anchor.

In
`@pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions/transaction-execution.mdx`:
- Around line 25-29: Update the transaction-execution diagram around the
appeal-window node W to show validator appeals only for Accepted and
ValidatorsTimeout outcomes, and leader appeals only for Undetermined and
LeaderTimeout outcomes. Remove the generic W-to-B leader-appeal transition and
add outcome-specific transitions while preserving the existing appeal
commit/reveal flow.

In
`@pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions/types-of-transactions.mdx`:
- Line 39: Update the user-facing transaction description by replacing “onchain”
with the standard spelling “on-chain,” without changing the surrounding meaning.

In
`@pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/optimistic-democracy-how-genlayer-works.mdx`:
- Around line 21-36: Update the Mermaid diagram’s protocol-status labels to use
the canonical identifiers, replacing “Leader revealing” with “LeaderRevealing”
and “Ready to finalize” with “ReadyToFinalize”; replace the noncanonical
“Decided,” “Appeal window,” and “Appeal commit-reveal” labels with their
corresponding canonical status-table identifiers.

In `@scripts/check-protocol-docs.js`:
- Around line 29-36: Update the image-validation logic in the protocol
documentation checker to reject whitespace-only Markdown alternative text and
empty Image component alt values, including quoted and expression forms such as
alt="" and alt={""}. Keep accepting only non-empty alternative text while
preserving the existing failure reporting behavior.
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  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/economic-model.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/genvm.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/large-language-model-llm-integration.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/non-deterministic-operations-handling.mdx
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  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/optimistic-democracy/equivalence-principle.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/optimistic-democracy/finality.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/optimistic-democracy/slashing.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/optimistic-democracy/staking.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/optimistic-democracy/unstaking.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/rollup-integration.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions/_meta.json
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions/transaction-encoding-serialization-and-signing.mdx
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  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions/types-of-transactions.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/validators-and-validator-roles.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/web-data-access.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/optimistic-democracy-how-genlayer-works.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/typical-use-cases.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/what-are-intelligent-contracts.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/what-is-genlayer.mdx
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In
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- Around line 32-36: Update the lifecycle diagram’s appeal transitions so the
existing Window-to-Review edge is explicitly identified as a validator appeal,
and add a leader-appeal transition from the applicable Undetermined or
LeaderTimeout state to Round without passing through Review.
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  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/optimistic-democracy.mdx
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  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/core-concepts/transactions/transaction-execution.mdx
  • pages/understand-genlayer-protocol/optimistic-democracy-how-genlayer-works.mdx
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