API Tokens & the Docs CLI
Publish your markdown docs from a git repo using an API token.
API Tokens & the Docs CLI
Settings → API tokens (Pro only) issues tokens used to publish docs from
your own repo, the same way this very docs/ folder is meant to be
published.
Getting the CLI
The CLI is open source: GusTech/tinycase-cli.
Grab a prebuilt static binary from the
releases page, or build
it from source with Crystal >= 1.10.
Creating a token
Give it a name (e.g. "CLI" or "CI") and generate it. The plaintext token is
shown once, right after creation — it isn't stored anywhere retrievable,
so copy it immediately. Revoke a token any time; whatever is using it stops
working right away.
Send it as a bearer token:
Authorization: Bearer tc_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What gets published
A push replaces your docs wholesale: a collections.yml describing your
collections, plus the markdown files and image assets that belong to them.
Anything not included in a push is deleted — the repo is the source of
truth, not an incremental diff.
collections.yml— a top-level list of collections, each needing a
slug.title,icon,description, andinternal: true(hidden from
the public portal, e.g. for engineering notes) are optional.- Pages — a markdown file's directory must match a collection's
slug;
its filename becomes the page slug. Optional YAML frontmatter sets
title,description, andorder(sort position within the collection). - Assets — images go under
assets/and are referenced by pages with
relative paths (../assets/x.png). PNG, JPG, GIF, WEBP, and SVG only, 5MB
max per file; SVGs are scanned before accepting.
This repo's own docs/ folder follows that exact layout, so it can be
pushed as-is once the CLI points at it.