Shannon: PDF Reports Land
Shannon can now generate its final security reports as PDFs, with rendering handled through Typst on the worker side. The single change spans the report pipeline, from JSON data to a new PDF renderer, plus Docker and startup configuration to support it.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Shannon.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Shannon
- Published: 2026-08-13T06:04:25Z
- Audio duration: PT2M6S
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This is Shannon, your developer news briefing, for August 13th, 2026.
Today's story is a single, focused feature landing end to end: Shannon's final report now ships in PDF format.
PR 421, merged by ezl-keygraph, adds a new PDF renderer that uses Typst, a modern typesetting engine, to turn security reports into polished PDF documents. The matching commit, 1ae0a14, confirms this lives in the worker service, where reports are generated.
What's notable is the breadth of the change. This isn't just a new renderer sitting off to the side — it touches the report JSON adapter, meaning the data feeding into reports had to be reshaped for this new output path. It touches the Docker build and startup scripts, meaning the worker's runtime environment now…
The developer takeaway here is about release risk and maintainability. Adding a new rendering dependency inside the worker's Docker image means build times and image size may shift, and anyone debugging report generation issues going forward needs to know Typst is now part of that pipeline, not just…
What's next: keep an eye on worker startup and build logs for anything related to the new PDF path, since this is a first version of the feature…
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