For AI agents: the complete documentation index is available at https://ciderpress.dev/llms.txt, the full documentation bundle is available at https://ciderpress.dev/llms-full.txt, and this page is available as Markdown at https://ciderpress.dev/index.md.
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ciderpress
    v1.0.0-rc.16 · MIT

    Beautiful Docs, Zero Effort

    An opinionated documentation framework for monorepos. No restructuring, no plugins, no theme wiring. Just point it at your markdown.

    IntroductionQuick Start
    ciderpress dev — ~/code/acme-platform
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    Features

    Built for the way you ship.

    Everything you need, nothing you don't. Configured in TypeScript, validated at boot.

    Zero Effort
    Give it a glob. It finds your pages and builds the site around them.
    Your Structure
    Config maps to how you already organize markdown. The tool fits your docs.
    AI-Friendly
    Ships an llms.txt index and serves raw markdown, so agents read the source.
    Monorepo Native
    First-class workspace support with sidebar islands and auto-generated landing pages.
    VSCode Extension
    Preview your docs site directly inside VS Code as you write.
    OpenAPI Support
    Drop in an OpenAPI spec and get interactive API reference pages with try-it-out requests.
    Packages

    Six packages, one install.

    This site documents its own source with the same card grid you get for free.

    Packages

    Reusable modules shared across the codebase — libraries, utilities, configs, SDKs, and internal tooling.

    packages/ciderpress
    Documentation framework powered by Rspress with a config-driven information architecture
    TypeScript Node.js
    packages/@ciderpress/cli
    CLI for building and serving ciderpress documentation sites
    TypeScript Node.js
    packages/@ciderpress/config
    Configuration loading and validation for ciderpress
    TypeScript Zod
    packages/@ciderpress/ui
    Rspress plugin, theme components, and styles for ciderpress
    TypeScript React
    packages/@ciderpress/theme
    Theme types and definitions for ciderpress
    TypeScript
    packages/@ciderpress/templates
    Documentation templates SDK with built-in templates, extensions, and custom registrations
    TypeScript Liquid
    Configuration

    One typed config file.

    Your whole site lives in ciderpress.config.ts. It gets validated on load, so a typo fails at startup instead of in production.

    • ✓Type-safe config with full IntelliSense
    • ✓Points at existing docs in place, so nothing has to move
    • ✓Restarts only when it has to, most edits hot-reload
    Read the docs
    import { defineConfig } from 'ciderpress'

export default defineConfig({
  title: 'Acme Docs',
  pages: [
    { title: 'Guides', include: 'docs/guides/*.md' },
  ],
  theme: { themes: ['mulled'] },
})
    Capabilities

    Every one of these is one config block.

    No plugin to install, no theme to fork.

    Your markdown, left where it is

    Ciderpress reads your repo where it sits, with no copying and no restructuring. Globs pick up new files, so adding a page means adding a file.

    • ✓Glob discovery
    • ✓Frontmatter inheritance
    • ✓Watch mode on every save
    ciderpress dev
    $ ciderpress dev

 ✓ synced 128 pages from 6 workspaces
 ▸ sidebar + nav generated
 ↻ watching for changes…
 ✓ ready at http://localhost:3000

    Point it at your docs.

    Run ciderpress setup and you have a site.

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