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The README was 151 lines, opened on a 2023 screenshot from the first version, and described the architecture only as a table.

• The README now opens with what the engine does, a CLI session captured from today's Release build, and a quick start, then an architecture diagram and a short list of what it supports.
• The diagram's Mermaid source is docs/architecture.mmd; docs/architecture-light.svg and docs/architecture-dark.svg are rendered from it, and the README picks one with <picture> to match GitHub's theme. Labels sit in boxes that stop the lines short of the text, so no text lies on a line.
• The full grammar, CLI files and errors, storage inspection, v1 migration, persistence limits, and the sanitizer build moved word for word to docs/usage.md; the source-layout table moved to DESIGN.md.
• image/preview.png (2023) is replaced by docs/media/cli-session.png.

Checks: a Release build and ctest (9 of 9 passed) on macOS, and the screenshot's session run against that build. The diagram was checked against includes/storage and docs/storage-v2.md: the WAL holds a full after-image and is synced before any page is written.

Limits: no code changes. The screenshot shows the commands after each SQL>> prompt as a terminal would; the CLI does not echo piped input.

Reviewed with kiro loop: 2 rounds with Claude Opus 5.5 (xhigh). Kiro verdict: approved.

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Walkthrough

The README now provides a concise project overview and links to expanded documentation. New usage documentation covers CLI commands, supported SQL, storage inspection, migration, persistence limits, and sanitizer builds. The design notes and architecture diagram describe component responsibilities and documented system flows.

Changes: Project documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Project overview and architecture README.md, docs/architecture.mmd, DESIGN.md	The README presents a quick start, feature summary, and documentation links. The architecture diagram depicts query processing and storage flows. The design notes add a source-layout table.
CLI and SQL usage docs/usage.md	The usage guide documents CLI commands and examples, supported SQL grammar, and storage inspection.
Migration, limits, and sanitizer build docs/usage.md, DESIGN.md	The usage guide describes v1 migration, persistence limits, and sanitizer build commands. The design notes link to the sanitizer instructions.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: Low · up to 8b496

This documentation-only change has no runtime impact. A broken storage-format link and an undefined operator list in the usage guide should be fixed, but they do not block merging.

Architecture risk: Low · up to 8b496

The change affects 3 systems.

Changed systems: docs, DESIGN.md, README.md

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Systems and components

• observed — docs (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — DESIGN.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
• observed — README.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in DESIGN.md: Adds a source-layout table describing the responsibilities of the tokenizer, parser, shunting-yard, map, binary-files, storage, table, and SQL components.
• observed — Modified behavior in DESIGN.md: Updates the sanitizer-build link from the README to docs/usage.md#sanitizer-build; the accompanying description is unchanged.
• observed — Modified behavior in README.md: The README replaces its previous detailed project description, component table, build and test instructions, CLI reference, grammar, migration guide, and persistence boundaries with a quick start, architecture illustration and storage overview, a condensed feature and limitation list, test and CI notes, and links to separate documentation. It documents string-based comparisons, single-writer limits, corruption rejection, WAL recovery, and the supported SQL operations.
• observed — Modified behavior in docs/architecture.mmd: Adds an architecture flowchart connecting query processing to storage. It depicts parsing and table operations followed by WHERE filtering and per-field indexing; Storage v2 page-buffer writes to a WAL and data file, recovery on open, and read-only copy-first migration from v1 files.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names three changes: an architecture diagram, a current CLI screenshot, and a shorter README. The changeset adds docs/architecture.mmd with a flowchart, shortens README.md (+32/-115), and ad…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.

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The title names three changes: an architecture diagram, a current CLI screenshot, and a shorter README. The changeset adds docs/architecture.mmd with a flowchart, shortens README.md (+32/-115), and adds docs/usage.md and DESIGN.md changes. The screenshot is docs/media/cli-session.png, which is excluded from the summary by path filter but is named in the PR objectives. The title is concise, specific, and matches the main changes, so the check passes.

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- Line 77: Update the storage documentation link in the usage documentation to
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