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Turn bs-report-<slug>-<date>.md into one HTML file anybody can open.

The markdown is the artifact and stays the artifact — it is what tally.py checks, what gets

diffed against a later run, and what gets committed. This skill adds a reader-facing view of

that same file. It renders; it never edits, recounts, or adds. Every number on the page is copied

from the markdown verbatim.

Why this exists

A BS report is a five-column claims table. On a laptop that is fine. On a phone — which is where a

shared link is actually opened — the Evidence column is unreadable, and the reader's first

question ("what's wrong with it?") means scrolling twenty rows to find the two that matter.

Usage

uv run <this-skill-dir>/scripts/render_report.py ~/.bullshit-detector/reports/<YYYY>/bs-report-<slug>-<date>.md

Writes bs-report-<slug>-<date>.html beside the markdown. -o <path> puts it elsewhere. No install

step, no dependencies — the script is stdlib-only, runs under plain python3 as well as uv run,

and the page it produces makes no network requests. That combination is what lets it work in a

code-execution sandbox, where the HTML is the only thing the user can take away.

• --open shows the page in the default browser. Where there is no browser — a sandbox, a headless

host — it says so and the file is still written. It is skipped when the page already exists,

because re-rendering is normal (the run line gets finalised after a first pass) and every open

spawns another tab — three consecutive real runs left the user with two. The file updates in

place; reload the tab you have.

• --reopen opens even when the page existed — for picking a report back up in a later session. Never treat that as a failure.
• --quiet prints only the output path, for scripting.

The handoff block

By default the script prints the block that ends a detector run:

BS score 4/10 · Mostly fine
  the macro data is real and mostly checks out; the narrative glue is crypto-Twitter.
Tally: 35 claims extracted, 34 individually source-checked — 22 confirmed, 5 plausible,
  5 misleading, 2 false. 1 not checked.
run: 16m30s, searches 35, tools 65, coverage 1, per claim 29s

markdown  file:///Users/…/bs-report-japans-money-is-collapsing-2026-07-31.md
page      file:///Users/…/bs-report-japans-money-is-collapsing-2026-07-31.html
          opened in your browser

Paste it; don't rebuild it. Every figure came out of the report that tally.py had just

recounted. A summary retyped from memory of what you wrote is wrong in the direction that flatters

the run — the same failure mode as the tally and the search count, one level up.

The paths are file:// URLs on purpose: terminals linkify a bare URL, so both files are one

cmd-click from opening. Don't shorten them to ~/… or hide them behind link text.

The compliance gate

Before rendering, the script runs the report through the detector's tally.py and **refuses to

render a report that fails it**:

REFUSED: bs-report-our-solar-system-2026-07-31.md does not pass tally.py.
  ✗ run line: 25 claims individually source-checked from 21 searches — every claim
    carrying a verdict needs its own search, so this reports more verification than
    was performed

Exit 3. This is the point of the gate: a page this presentable, built from a report that fails its

own arithmetic, launders a broken report into something that looks authoritative. Fix what the gate

names and re-run.

• --force renders anyway and prints the failures as warnings.
• --no-check skips the gate — for markdown that isn't a BS report.
• --tally <path> or $BULLSHIT_DETECTOR_TALLY if it can't be found automatically.

If tally.py isn't installed at all — this skill can be installed without the detector — the

script warns and renders. A missing validator is a reason to warn, not a reason to stop someone

viewing a report they already have.

--og-image <absolute-url> adds a link-preview image. Only useful once the page is hosted

somewhere; skip it for local files.

Then tell the user the path and that it opens in any browser. On macOS open <path> does it.

What the page adds over the markdown

• Score hero — the number at the size it deserves, coloured by the RUBRIC band (Solid /

Mostly fine / Hype-heavy / Mostly bullshit / Fabricated), with the one-line verdict beside it.

• Verdict filter chips — Problems shows only ❌ and 🟠. Load-bearing only hides the

incidental table. This is the whole reason a non-technical reader gets through the report.

• Claims as cards under 900px, as a table above it. Same rows, same order, same text.
• Print stylesheet — Cmd-P gives a clean PDF with the URLs printed after each link.

Filters are deliberately ignored when printing: a filtered PDF is a report that quietly dropped

rows, which is the one artifact this tool must never produce.

• Link-preview tags — a pasted link shows <title> — N/10 and the verdict line instead of a

bare URL.

Rules

• Render, don't re-report. If a number looks wrong, the markdown is wrong — fix it there and

re-render. Never correct it in the HTML.

• The markdown is still the source of truth. Say so when handing over the file; the HTML is a

view, and only the markdown is what tally.py validated.

• Don't reach for --force to make a refusal go away. The gate is naming a real defect in the

report. Rendering past it produces a page that looks more trustworthy than the thing behind it,

which is the failure this whole tool exists to catch.

• Don't publish anything without being asked. People point this tool at unpublished drafts,

internal docs and things they were sent in confidence. Writing a local file is not publishing;

putting it on the internet is a separate decision that belongs to the user, per report.

• The renderer is deliberately lenient — a report missing its score or version stamp still renders,

with a note on the page saying which fields were missing. That is a viewer's job. tally.py is

the strict one, and the two must not swap roles.

Known limits

• The claims table must keep its | # | Claim | Type | Verdict | Evidence | shape — the # column

is how the renderer tells a claims table from any other table, and the verdict glyph is read from

its own cell, never from anywhere else in the row.

• Reports in any language render fine (system fonts, no bundled webfont).
• Images are not generated here. The social carousel lives in

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