The generated docs site
Alongside the SDKs, Glotto emits a complete Astro + React + Tailwind docs project your customer owns — generated from the same Glotto IR and the per-language SDK snippets, so the docs never drift from the SDKs.
This is the generated customer docs site (the
@glotto/codegen-docsoutput). It is a different surface from this site — Glotto’s own docs, which you’re reading now.
What it includes
- Reference pages — one per operation, with params and request/response schema.
- Multi-language snippet tabs — populated from the emitted SDK snippets.
- MDX / Markdown / Markdoc authoring for narrative pages — guides live in a typed,
schema-validated collection (
src/guides/), so a new file is routed, listed, and indexed automatically. - Search (Pagefind), opened with Cmd-K / Ctrl+K and navigable with the arrow keys, with facets
by HTTP method, resource, SDK language, and parameter name. Facet labels and order are
configurable through
docs.search.facets, alongside a CSS-variable theming system. - First-party, cookieless analytics (opt-in, off by default) against your own PostHog or Plausible project — page views plus search-query, feedback-vote, and playground events, with Do-Not-Track honored and no cookies or consent banner.
- Branch-preview deploys and custom-domain + SSL wiring.
- Third-party decorators — inject snippets into the OpenAPI doc as
x-codeSamplesfor customers who host docs on Mintlify / ReadMe / Redocly / Bump / GitBook. - An MCP connect page — when your
glotto.ymlhas anmcpblock, a nav-linked/connect-mcp/page carries the install blocks (claude mcp add,.mcp.json, a Cursor install link) for your generated MCP server.
Hosting your docs elsewhere: the decorated spec URL
If you host your reference docs on Mintlify, ReadMe, Redocly, Bump or GitBook rather than
on the generated site, Glotto publishes the decorated OpenAPI document — your spec with the
per-language SDK snippets injected as x-codeSamples (or x-code-samples for ReadMe) — at a
stable URL your provider can point at:
https://api.glotto.dev/v1/spec/decorated/<projectId>/openapi.decorated.yml
https://api.glotto.dev/v1/spec/decorated/<projectId>/openapi.decorated.json
Paste it into mint.json (or your provider’s spec-URL field) once. The address never
changes and is not tied to a spec revision: it always serves the most recent decorated
document, so every regeneration reaches your docs provider with no CI step of your own.
Pick the format by extension — the URL determines whether you get YAML or JSON, so the
same link always means the same thing. Responses carry a strong ETag, so a provider that
polls gets a cheap 304 Not Modified until the document actually changes.
This is opt-in per project and off by default: until you enable it, the URL returns 404,
and a project that has not opted in is indistinguishable from one that does not exist. Turn it
on in your project config:
hosted_spec:
enabled: true
The document is served without authentication — that is what lets a docs provider fetch it — so enable it only for a spec you are comfortable publishing.
The source-of-truth template lives in templates/docs-site-template/; the customer can
override any Astro/React component.