Ecosystem

Everything that speaks Carve, grouped by role. All of it lives under the markup-carve organization. For live corpus conformance numbers of the reference parsers, see Implementation Comparison.

Parsers

The engines that turn Carve source into an AST and HTML. Conformance is measured against the shared spec corpus; the bar for "a Carve implementation" is Tier-1 core (native syntax) - see Build Your Own Implementation.

Project	Language	Status
carve-js	TypeScript	Reference implementation. Tier-1 corpus passing.
carve-rs	Rust	Parser + HTML renderer with a carve CLI. Tier-1 corpus passing.
carve-php	PHP	Forked from djot-php; Carve syntax implemented, corpus passing. Powers the PHP sandbox and wp-carve.
carve-wasm	WASM	Browser/Node bindings for carve-rs. Early.

Language bindings

Higher-level bindings and satellite packages that wrap one of the engine implementations.

A binding over carve-rs exposes the complete core output surface: HTML, Markdown, plain text, ANSI, canonical Carve, and the published AST. Importers are optional, but each binding declares every HTML, Markdown, Djot, and BBCode importer as either implemented or out of scope. The machine-readable declaration in resources/binding-contract.json checks that the required output set is exact, that every importer has exactly one declaration, and that both kinds of declaration hold against the source each binding ships: a declared importer names a real export, and an out-of-scope entry survives only while nothing in the binding's own sources names that format.

Project	Language	Notes
carve-go	Go	Pure-Go module via wazero + WASI over carve-rs.
carve-py	Python	PyO3 bindings over carve-rs. Enables MkDocs, Pelican, and other Python pipelines.
carve-rb	Ruby	Native gem via magnus over carve-rs.
carve-components	React / Vue	UI components for rendering Carve markup in the browser.
carve-wysiwyg	TypeScript	WYSIWYG editor / live sandbox (Tiptap + carve-grammars).
carve-css	CSS	Shared styles for semantic Carve HTML such as admonitions and tabs.

Editor support

Syntax highlighting, structural editing, and diagnostics inside editors.

Project	Target	Status
vscode-carve	VS Code	Highlighting, snippets, live preview.
emacs-carve	Emacs	Major mode for .crv files.
vim-carve	Vim / Neovim	Syntax highlighting + tree-sitter grammar.
sublime-carve	Sublime Text	Syntax package for .crv files.
sublime-carve-lsp	Sublime Text	LSP helper package - diagnostics, hover and symbols via the Carve language server.
helix-carve	Helix	Editor support for Carve.
intellij-carve	JetBrains IDEs	Highlighting, live preview, and export for IntelliJ, PhpStorm, etc.
zed-carve	Zed	Editor support.
tree-sitter-carve	Tree-sitter	Grammar for highlighting and structural editing.
highlightjs-carve	Highlight.js	Syntax grammar for highlighted Carve source.
pygments-carve	Pygments	Lexer for Python documentation and highlighting tools.
rouge-carve	Rouge	Lexer coloring Carve source wherever Rouge highlights.
carve-lsp	LSP	Language server - syntax diagnostics, Djot/Markdown collision hints. Early.

Copying a Carve document

An integration that puts Carve source on the clipboard carries it as text/x-carve (CARVE-P9-071), next to a text/plain flavor for targets that know no Carve. Browser and Electron hosts must write it as web text/x-carve: the unprefixed type fails only when the write runs, so await navigator.clipboard.write and report its rejection, or a copy that put nothing on the clipboard looks like success.

Framework integrations

Carve embedded in another tool or framework.

Project	Host	Status
mkdocs-carve	MkDocs	Plugin: renders .crv pages in MkDocs documentation sites.
jekyll-carve	Jekyll	Converter plugin for .crv pages.
eleventy-carve	Eleventy (11ty)	Plugin for processing Carve source files.
astro-carve	Astro	Integration for importing .crv pages.
hugo-carve	Hugo	Preprocessor that converts .crv content to HTML, via carve-go.
docusaurus-carve	Docusaurus	Docs plugin: converts .crv pages and delegates routes, sidebars, and metadata to Docusaurus.
webpack-loader-carve	webpack / Next.js	Build-time loader for importing .crv as rendered HTML modules.
obsidian-carve	Obsidian	Community plugin with source and reading views for .crv notes.
symfony-carve	Symfony	Bundle to render Carve markup to HTML via carve-php.
symfony-carve-demo	Symfony	Demo app for the symfony-carve bundle.
laravel-carve	Laravel	Integration with Blade directives, services, validation, and caching.
laravel-carve-demo	Laravel	Runnable app demonstrating every feature of laravel-carve.
shopware-carve	Shopware 6	Twig filters, CMS element, product/category fields, admin live preview, mail, and a CLI.
wp-carve	WordPress	Plugin on the carve-php engine - live preview, multi-format paste, REST API.
carve-grammars	Tiptap	Editor kit and Carve serializer.
vite-plugin-carve	Vite	Import .crv documents as rendered HTML. Early.
carve-press	Static sites	Carve-native static site generator.
zensical-carve	Zensical	Carve integration for Zensical documentation sites.

PDF / output

Render Carve documents to formats beyond HTML.

Project	Output	Notes
carve-pdf	PDF	Render .crv documents to clean, paginated PDFs.
carve-hexapdf	PDF	Carve to PDF via the pure-Ruby HexaPDF engine (over carve-lang / carve-rb).
pandoc-carve	LaTeX, Typst, DOCX, PDF, ...	Carve AST to Pandoc JSON bridge; reaches every pandoc writer and makes {=latex}-style raw spans fire.
carve-sile	PDF	SILE input support for typesetting Carve documents.
pdf-to-carve	Carve source	Extract PDF text and layout into validated .crv documents.

Format bridges

Conversions between the Carve AST and another document model, in both directions. These are keyed by bridge rather than by repository, because one of them lives inside an engine rather than in a package of its own. Why the boundary sits at the AST, and what a bridge owes its caller: Format bridges.

Bridge	Model	Runtime	Carve to it	It to Carve
pandoc-carve	Pandoc AST	Node + pandoc	✅ every pandoc writer	✅ everything pandoc reads
carve-grammars	ProseMirror / Tiptap	Node	✅ carveToProseMirror	✅ serializeToCarve
carve-php	ProseMirror / Tiptap	PHP	✅ ProseMirrorRenderer	✅ ProseMirrorToCarve

The same editor model is reached from two runtimes on purpose: an editor needs the model in whatever runtime the application already has. The carve-php pair is what lets a Tiptap editor in the browser and PHP rendering in a queue worker share one stored document with no Node runtime anywhere in the pipeline. carve-grammars owns the shared CarveKit schema and the name map both sides read.

carve-js and carve-rs have no bridge of their own; their prosemirror HTML import adapter is a different job at a different stage.

Extensions

Opt-in extensions that add non-core syntax.

Project	Target	Notes
carve-php-media-embed	carve-php	Embeds audio and video through dereuromark/media-embed.
carve-php-chat	carve-php	Renders Carve to chat-platform markup (WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, Discord) via data-driven flavor definitions.

Benchmarks

Project	Description
carve-bench	Cross-engine render performance benchmarks (carve-js / carve-php / carve-rs).

AI / agent tooling

Skills and servers that let AI coding agents author, validate and convert Carve.

Project	Target	Status
carve-skill	Claude Code / agents	Authoring skill - a syntax card, the Markdown/Djot trap list, and a carve lint validation loop so agents write valid .crv the first time.
carve-mcp	MCP clients	Local stdio server exposing the carve-js linter, formatter, renderers, AST, HTML/Markdown/Djot import and concise authoring resources. No filesystem or network access by default. Not yet published - run from source.

Resources

Project	Description
awesome-carve	Curated list of Carve tools, libraries, and resources.
homebrew-carve	Homebrew tap for installing Carve tools.
PHP Sandbox	Powerful live sandbox on the carve-php engine - explore syntax and extensions, inspect output, and share snippets via pastebin-style links.

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Building something new? See Build Your Own Implementation. External tools are welcome in awesome-carve even if they do not live in the org.