Living Document Notice
Staged 2026-09-28. Living revisions and interconnected notes live in the Bosun PKM Garden.

Plain-Text Recipe Truth and YAML Frontmatter Architecture

Commercial recipe platforms lock user-generated culinary knowledge behind proprietary web databases and ad-bloated interfaces. Galley treats recipes as durable, offline-first UTF-8 CommonMark notes structured with strict YAML frontmatter.

Recipe Storage Invariants

  1. Plain-Text Sovereignty: Recipe notes remain 100% human-readable and mechanically parseable even if all supporting SQLite databases and cache layers are destroyed.
  2. Strict Frontmatter Schemas: Ingredient lists, prep metrics, and yield targets serialize directly into standardized YAML blocks for local querying.
  3. Zero Cloud Dependencies: All recipe rendering, parsing, and data retrieval execute entirely on local hardware.

Plain-text sovereignty guarantees lifetime access to personal culinary archives without cloud lock-in.


  • Directus Target: galley-blog
  • Garden Source Reference: MOC - Galley Culinary Engine, MOC - Bosun PKM Engine, LOG-1001 - Append-Only Temporal Logs