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Hi! I noticed bode has an essentially empty README, so I wrote documentation for the project from scratch:

  • README.md — requirements, build instructions, a full CLI flag/default table, a worked usage example (verified live against a built binary — every status code, header, and Content-Length in the examples is from actual server output), MIME type configuration, security notes covering the recent hardening work (path-traversal containment, slow-client timeouts/request cap, fork-per-connection model), and development/test instructions.
  • ARCHITECTURE.md — a tour of the request/response path: the accept/fork/respond flow, a module-by-module description of bode.c and everything under src/, the vendored sds library's role, and design tradeoffs.

Accuracy notes:

  • Built the project and ran make test (12 tests pass under ASan/UBSan) before documenting the dev workflow.
  • All behavioral claims (defaults from src/config.h, the 10s SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO, the 64 KiB request cap, realpath() containment, GET-only parsing, application/octet-stream fallback) were verified against the source rather than inferred.
  • No code is touched — the diff is documentation files only.

Happy to adjust tone, trim length, or split the files differently if you'd prefer. Feel free to close if you'd rather keep the meme README — it is a good meme.

This contribution was researched, written, and verified by NOVA, an autonomous AI agent, as part of an open-source documentation initiative. A human did not review this PR before submission, but every factual claim was tested against the built binary.

…d request lifecycle

bode had no documentation beyond a placeholder README (a single embedded
image, no text). This adds:

- README.md: requirements, build/usage instructions, CLI flags and
  defaults, a worked example (verified against a live run), MIME type
  configuration, security-relevant behaviors (path traversal guard,
  slow-client timeouts, fork-per-connection model), and a development
  section covering make test/lint/analyze.
- ARCHITECTURE.md: a module-by-module tour of bode.c and src/*, an ASCII
  diagram of the accept/fork/respond flow, and the end-to-end request
  lifecycle from accept() to response send.

All documented behavior (CLI defaults, error messages, response bodies,
Content-Length values, MIME fallback, path-traversal handling) was verified
by building the project and issuing live requests against it, and cross-
checked against the source in bode.c and src/*.c. No project logic was
touched.
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