Experiments
Fourteen experiments, each one actually built by the pinned engine and verified in a real headless browser against this vault — not described, not planned. Every page below states:
- what it demonstrates,
- the exact configuration or content that produces it, fenced verbatim,
- what the rendered output proves (the marker looked for in the emitted DOM),
safe_for_shared_enginewith a one-line reason.
What
safe_for_shared_enginedoes and does not mean
truemeans: if the maintainers of the shared engine at/home/loca/dev/quartz/quartzever chose to adopt this, the blast radius across the 51 wikis would be small and reversible. It is an assessment, not an authorisation. No sandbox run ever edits the shared engine — an experiment that would require such an edit is reported as blocked instead.
Rendering and markdown
| Experiment | Plugins exercised | Safe for shared engine |
|---|---|---|
| Mermaid diagrams | obsidian-flavored-markdown | yes |
| LaTeX with KaTeX | latex | yes |
| Callouts and nesting | obsidian-flavored-markdown | yes |
| Wikilinks, transclusion, block refs | obsidian-flavored-markdown, crawl-links | yes |
| Syntax highlighting themes | syntax-highlighting | yes |
Page types beyond markdown
| Experiment | Plugins exercised | Safe for shared engine |
|---|---|---|
| Native canvas pages | canvas-page | yes |
| Native Bases pages | bases-page | no |
Navigation, discovery and emitters
| Experiment | Plugins exercised | Safe for shared engine |
|---|---|---|
| Graph and explorer | graph, explorer | yes |
| Search, RSS, sitemap | search, content-index | yes |
| Alias redirects | alias-redirects | yes |
Layout, theming and visibility
| Experiment | Plugins exercised | Safe for shared engine |
|---|---|---|
| Properties view and layout groups | note-properties, darkmode, reader-mode, breadcrumbs, table-of-contents | no |
| Unlisted and encrypted pages | unlisted-pages, encrypted-pages | no |
| Custom SCSS theming | engine custom.scss | no |
| Local sandbox plugins | ../plugins/sandbox-reading-stats, ../plugins/sandbox-manifest | no |
Fixtures
These exist to be consumed by the experiments above and are not experiments themselves:
- Transclusion source — embedded whole, by heading, and by block id.
- Unlisted demo page — present at its route, absent from every index.
- Encrypted demo page — ciphertext in the HTML, password published on purpose.
sandbox-tour.canvasandsandbox-notes.base— non-markdown sources rendered by page-type plugins; reachable from their experiment pages.
Where to go next
- Sandbox configuration — the config that drives all of the above.
- Plugin roster — the exhaustive enabled/disabled list.
- Sandbox home — isolation model and engine pin.