Guides are written on one site and needed on all of them, and the sites that matter are air-gapped from wherever the writing happens. Until now a procedure was stranded in the database it was typed into: the HTML importer could rebuild one from its original article, but anything authored in the editor had nowhere to go. flask guides export writes one .guide.json per guide, with every image the blocks reference carried inside it as base64. One file on purpose - a bundle that needs its images copied alongside it is a bundle that will eventually arrive without them. flask guides import reads them back, a directory at a time, and refuses anything that is not a bundle before it writes a row rather than half-importing a stray .json sitting in the same folder. What travels is the content: title, summary, tags, blocks, images. What does not is ids, revision history, authorship and publication state, because those belong to whichever database issued them - an imported guide starts as a draft at revision 1, owned by whoever ran the import. The SLUG does travel: it is the address somebody pastes into a work order, and the same guide should answer to the same name on every site. --replace updates the guide already carrying that slug instead of creating a second one, which is how a corrected guide is re-shipped. It drops the stored images first: the incoming bundle is the whole truth for that guide, and a guide re-shipped monthly would otherwise accumulate orphans nothing points at. Bundles refuse a version they are too old to read rather than importing the parts they recognise. A newer site's guide is not a guide this one can be trusted to render. Proven by round-tripping a five-guide export back into the same site, including one carrying two PNG screenshots, and reading it in a browser.
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