Anchor
Reference-safe file moves and workspace integrity — refactor structure without breaking a single link.
In the constellation
Anchor highlighted in the live map — hover or tap any node to explore.
Why it exists
Refactor a workspace — move a file, rename a folder — and you break every link that pointed at it. Across a large repo that becomes death by a thousand dead references, and the AI agents working inside it can’t be trusted to catch them all.
Structure needs to stay free to change. References need to never break. Those two needs fight each other the moment a project gets big.
What Anchor is
Anchor is Layer 0 — the deterministic integrity layer beneath everything else. It moves files and rewrites structure while guaranteeing not a single reference breaks: every link, every cross-document pointer, every frontmatter dependency stays valid.
No AI sits in the path. It’s a transaction engine — plan, validate, apply, roll back — so a refactor either lands cleanly or doesn’t land at all.
What it does
Reference-safe moves
Move or rename anything; Anchor rewrites every pointer to it in the same transaction. Links never dangle.
Plan / apply / rollback
Every change is a transaction — preview the full diff, validate it, apply atomically, roll back on any failure.
Workspace validation
Scan the whole workspace for broken references, malformed frontmatter, and structural drift — and fix them on a plan.
Term migration
Rename a concept across thousands of files — whole-word, fenced-code-aware — without a blind find-and-replace.
The line between judgment and machinery
AccelMars draws one hard line through every product: what an AI decides, and what runs deterministically. Anchor sits on the deterministic side.
Deterministic by design
- ▪ Reference resolution and rewriting
- ▪ Transaction validation and atomic apply
- ▪ Frontmatter and structure checks
Anchor is pure mechanism — deliberately AI-free. It’s the floor every judgment engine stands on, which is exactly why it has to be deterministic.
Live in production — the integrity layer under the entire AccelMars workspace.