3 files changed, 61 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 3f6a636..63879d6 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ cgit generates fixed HTML. Key selectors used in `cgit.css`:
 | Line number cell | `td.linenumbers` |
 | Code cell | `td.lines` |
 | Footer | `div.footer` |
+| About/README content | `div#summary` |
 
 If cgit's generated markup ever differs (version-dependent), inspect the live HTML first before changing selectors.
 
diff --git a/about-filter.py b/about-filter.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..fecbb1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/about-filter.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+cgit about-filter: renders README.md as HTML with Pygments syntax highlighting.
+
+cgit calls this script with the readme filename as argv[1] and file content on stdin.
+Output is HTML written to stdout.
+"""
+
+import sys
+import re
+import markdown
+from pygments import highlight
+from pygments.lexers import get_lexer_by_name, TextLexer
+from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter
+from pygments.util import ClassNotFound
+
+
+def highlight_code_blocks(html):
+    def replacer(match):
+        lang = match.group(1) or ""
+        code = match.group(2)
+        # Unescape HTML entities from markdown output
+        code = code.replace("&amp;", "&").replace("&lt;", "<").replace("&gt;", ">").replace("&quot;", '"')
+        try:
+            lexer = get_lexer_by_name(lang.strip(), stripnl=False) if lang.strip() else TextLexer(stripnl=False)
+        except ClassNotFound:
+            lexer = TextLexer(stripnl=False)
+        formatter = HtmlFormatter(nowrap=True, cssclass="highlight", noclasses=False)
+        highlighted = highlight(code, lexer, formatter)
+        return f'<pre><code class="highlight">{highlighted}</code></pre>'
+
+    # Match <pre><code class="language-LANG"> or <pre><code>
+    pattern = re.compile(
+        r'<pre><code(?:\s+class="language-([^"]*)")?>(.*?)</code></pre>',
+        re.DOTALL
+    )
+    return pattern.sub(replacer, html)
+
+
+content = sys.stdin.read()
+html = markdown.markdown(content, extensions=["fenced_code", "tables", "toc"])
+print(highlight_code_blocks(html))
diff --git a/cgit.css b/cgit.css
index dc4389b..950d510 100644
--- a/cgit.css
+++ b/cgit.css
@@ -1260,35 +1260,39 @@ td.logmsg {
 }
 
 /* About page / README */
-div#readme {
-  background: var(--bg2);
+div#summary {
+  background: var(--surface);
   border: 1px solid var(--border);
   border-radius: 6px;
   padding: 24px 28px;
   margin-top: 20px;
+  max-width: 1200px;
+  width: 100%;
+  box-sizing: border-box;
+  box-shadow: 0 0 20px rgba(var(--accent-rgb), 0.08);
   font-family: 'IBM Plex Sans', sans-serif;
   font-size: 15px;
   line-height: 1.75;
   color: var(--text);
 }
 
-div#readme h1,
-div#readme h2,
-div#readme h3,
-div#readme h4 {
+div#summary h1,
+div#summary h2,
+div#summary h3,
+div#summary h4 {
   font-family: 'Oxanium', monospace;
   color: var(--text);
   margin-top: 1.5em;
   margin-bottom: 0.5em;
 }
 
-div#readme h1 { font-size: 26px; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border); padding-bottom: 8px; }
-div#readme h2 { font-size: 20px; }
-div#readme h3 { font-size: 17px; }
+div#summary h1 { font-size: 26px; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border); padding-bottom: 8px; }
+div#summary h2 { font-size: 20px; }
+div#summary h3 { font-size: 17px; }
 
-div#readme a { color: var(--accent); }
+div#summary a { color: var(--accent); }
 
-div#readme code {
+div#summary code {
   font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace;
   font-size: 13px;
   background: var(--surface);
@@ -1298,7 +1302,7 @@ div#readme code {
   color: var(--accent2);
 }
 
-div#readme pre {
+div#summary pre {
   background: var(--surface);
   border: 1px solid var(--border);
   border-radius: 6px;
@@ -1306,7 +1310,7 @@ div#readme pre {
   overflow-x: auto;
 }
 
-div#readme pre code {
+div#summary pre code {
   background: transparent;
   border: none;
   padding: 0;
@@ -1314,7 +1318,7 @@ div#readme pre code {
   font-size: 13px;
 }
 
-div#readme blockquote {
+div#summary blockquote {
   border-left: 4px solid var(--accent);
   margin: 16px 0;
   padding: 8px 16px;