About this starter

A deliberately thin proof: one home page, this page, one partial, plain CSS. It exists to show that a non-Node toolchain satisfies the template contract with no change to the platform at all.

Its layouts and partials live in this repository rather than in a theme, because Venona’s build checkout brings down neither git submodules nor Hugo modules. README.md says why.

Measured on 2026-11-10: launching this site uploaded 4 assets for 6 files, because _redirects and _headers travel in the asset config rather than as assets. Adding one page uploaded exactly 1.

The numbers, measured end to end on this site: launch sent 4 assets for 6 files; adding one page sent 1; changing only _headers sent 0 while changing every response; retiring the page with a redirect sent 0.