Two follow-up improvements on top of renderDocxFromFile so the docx
pipeline can handle real long-form deliverables instead of just
prose-only memos.
Image embedding (P1).
MarkdownDocxRenderer now recognizes single-line  markdown
and embeds the referenced file via POI's XWPFRun.addPicture():
- PNG / JPG / GIF / BMP read straight from disk
- SVG rasterized via Apache Batik (PNGTranscoder, target width 1400px)
before embedding — OOXML stores raster images, so any vector source
needs conversion. Batik runs in-JVM, no rsvg-convert / cairo on host.
- Pictures are pinned to roughly the printable page width (≈ 5.77 in
for A4 minus default 1800-twip margins) and given a 4:3 height
fallback. Mixing images inline with other paragraph text is not
supported by design — the markdown subset assumes one image per
block paragraph. Inline images would require splitting paragraphs
across runs with explicit positioning, well beyond what this
renderer covers.
- Failure modes (missing file, unsupported format, Batik blowing up)
emit an italicised "[image: alt — reason]" placeholder so the rest
of the document still renders; the agent can read its own log to
see why the picture didn't make it.
- Adds two transitive deps via pom: batik-transcoder + batik-codec at
1.18, ~10 MB combined. Worth it given the alternative is shelling
out to system tooling.
Multi-file render (P2-lite).
New tool renderDocxFromFiles(List<String> filePaths, filename, pageSize)
reads several markdown files in order and renders one combined docx.
Lets the agent split a 30-page proposal into cover.md / ch1.md /
ch2.md / appendix.md and produce a single deliverable in one tool
call. Each path goes through WorkspacePathGuard.validatePath; any
empty or unreadable file aborts with a typed error so the agent
fixes its file list before retrying. Files are joined with a blank
line — no separator markup is injected, headings carry over cleanly.
I deliberately did NOT build the heavier mutable-docx state
("appendDocxChapter / finalizeDocx") flavor of P2: the multi-file
form covers the same workflow with no per-conversation state to
clean up, and the agent can iterate by rewriting the chapter file
and re-running the tool. Stateful append can come later if a
streaming use case actually shows up.
renderDocx and renderDocxFromFile @Tool descriptions updated to point
the agent at renderDocxFromFile for >5 KB markdown and to advertise
the new image-embedding capability.
