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The documentation needs a clearer path from installation to everyday checks and an accurate explanation of file selection, stashing, profiles, and tool requirements. This rewrites the README and guides, repairs copyable configurations, and gives the website a new responsive landing page and light/dark styling.

  • Reorganize navigation around getting started, guides, examples, and reference material; keep the shared llms.txt index and page-specific social previews.
  • Add a CI guide and maintained examples to the generated CLI reference, including the current agent and completion commands.
  • Include downloadable Pkl sources directly in their example pages and correct reference prose at its source.
  • Check internal page, fragment, and asset links during the documentation build and exclude generated fragments from standalone search results.

Validation: mise run build; mise run docs:build (including six social-preview tests and internal-link checks); all four downloadable Pkl configurations; eight configuration integration tests; two native custom-step tests; formatting and generation-idempotence checks. Desktop/mobile layouts, search, and both color themes were inspected in the browser.

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Changes are documentation, site styling, and generated CLI markdown/help text only; no runtime hook or lint execution logic is modified in this diff.

Overview
Documentation content and onboarding are rewritten end-to-end: the README and root CONTRIBUTING.md now point at in-repo guides with concrete mise setup; AGENTS.md is updated for crate layout, docs workflows, and clearer mbx/lock wording. Guides such as about, benchmarks, and builtins are reframed (benchmarks load committed JSON with explicit limitations; builtins stress separate tool installs and Builtins.* names). A new CI guide covers shared check hooks, mise exec, ref-based file selection, profiles, and diagnostics.

The VitePress site gets a new landing page (install copy, config preview, workflow sections), reorganized nav/sidebar (“Start here”, nested CLI tree), default dark appearance with refreshed light/dark tokens, srcExclude for gen/**, and a slimmer layout theme (heavy custom hero/footer CSS removed).

Generated reference improves via generate_docs (setting keys unchanged, Builtins.{name} in the catalogue), scripts/enrich-cli-docs.py-style examples and “Learn more” blocks on CLI pages, refreshed docs/cli/commands.json help for --all, --fix, and ref flags, and a richer CLI index task table.

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  • Documentation
    • Refreshed the documentation site with updated navigation, landing page, styling, favicon, and light/dark themes.
    • Expanded CLI references with clearer option descriptions, examples, metadata, and related links.
    • Added guidance for CI workflows, coding-agent integrations, troubleshooting, configuration, hooks, and custom tools.
    • Reorganized getting-started, configuration, benchmarks, glossary, and example-project guides.
    • Updated installation, setup, contribution, and README instructions with current workflows.
    • Improved generated documentation validation, link checking, and example verification.

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Walkthrough

The PR refreshes the documentation system. It updates the VitePress site, CLI references, user guides, examples, contributor material, and validation scripts. It also aligns generated help text and documentation with current command behavior.

Changes

Documentation refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Documentation generation and CLI references
bin/generate_docs.rs, scripts/*, mise-tasks/*, hk.usage.kdl, src/hook_options.rs, settings.toml, docs/cli/*
CLI pages now receive metadata, examples, links, and revised option descriptions. Documentation builds now validate local links, fragments, and example includes.
Site navigation and visual shell
docs/.vitepress/*, docs/.vitepress/theme/*, docs/index.md
The site navigation, homepage, layout, theme, metadata, and responsive styles were redesigned.
User guides and configuration
docs/about.md, docs/builtins.md, docs/ci.md, docs/configuration.md, docs/environment_variables.md, docs/getting_started.md, docs/glossary.md, docs/hooks.md, docs/logging.md, docs/mise_integration.md, docs/pkl_introduction.md, docs/why-hk.md
The guides were rewritten around installation, configuration, hooks, profiles, diagnostics, locking, mise integration, builtins, and Pkl.
Examples and benchmarks
docs/benchmarks.md, docs/reference/examples/*, scripts/generate-examples.sh
Examples now reference downloadable Pkl files and document validation and adaptation. Benchmark data is loaded statically and presented as recorded results.
Project documentation and testing guidance
AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, README.md, docs/contributing.md, docs/public/llms.txt, docs/shanty.md, test/README.md
Repository setup, contribution steps, testing workflows, project links, and supporting documentation were updated.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to db2ef

This documentation refresh may fail to build because of the benchmark data import, and the monorepo example may leave users without the promised mise configuration. These issues should be resolved before merging.

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  participant UsageSpec
  participant EnrichScript
  participant VitePress
  participant LinkChecker
  UsageSpec->>EnrichScript: Generate CLI Markdown and JSON
  EnrichScript->>VitePress: Add metadata, examples, and links
  VitePress->>LinkChecker: Build HTML pages
  LinkChecker->>VitePress: Report link and fragment validation
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A rabbit hops through docs so bright
With links and guides aligned just right
CLI pages bloom with care
New themes shimmer everywhere
Pkl examples dance in rows
And validation softly glows

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This documentation-focused PR reorganizes the guides and generated CLI reference, adds CI and monorepo guidance, redesigns the VitePress site, and strengthens internal page, fragment, and asset validation.

  • Clarifies installation, file selection, stashing, tracing, profiles, and tool requirements.
  • Adds responsive light/dark site styling, revised navigation, and a new landing page.
  • Keeps generated reference pages, downloadable Pkl examples, and link validation aligned with their source material.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge with no outstanding actionable findings.

The changes since the previous review correct and clarify documentation without introducing a mismatch with the examined runtime behavior, and the prior asset-validation finding was fixed and manually resolved.

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
docs/hooks.md Documents stash-dependent file selection and environment-variable behavior consistently with the implementation.
docs/reference/examples/monorepo.md Adds inline subproject and mise examples plus accurate descriptions of scoped steps and composed hooks.
settings.toml Removes the unsupported text trace value and aligns generated documentation with runtime parsing.
scripts/check-docs-links.py Validates local page, fragment, and asset references, including the previously omitted link[href] assets.
docs/.vitepress/theme/HomePage.vue Replaces the landing page with a responsive, accessible presentation of installation, configuration, and workflow concepts.
docs/.vitepress/sidebar.ts Reorganizes documentation navigation and recursively derives nested CLI entries from the command specification.

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107-108: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore or remove the empty mise configuration example.

The preceding paragraph says that matching mise configuration is available. The empty TOML block provides no configuration. Restore the examples or remove the paragraph and code fence.

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In `@docs/reference/examples/monorepo.md` around lines 107 - 108, Resolve the
empty mise configuration example in the surrounding documentation: restore the
intended TOML configuration examples, or remove the paragraph claiming matching
configuration is available together with its empty code fence. Keep the
documentation internally consistent.
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Inline comments:
In `@docs/benchmarks.md`:
- Line 6: Update the benchmark data loading in docs/benchmarks.md so it remains
compatible with VitePress: either move the JSON source outside docs/public and
generate the public copy, or replace the module import with runtime loading from
/benchmark-data.json. Preserve the existing benchmark data behavior.

In `@docs/cli/util/python-check-ast.md`:
- Line 3: Update the maintained description supplied by
scripts/enrich-cli-docs.py to state that Python may create `__pycache__`
directories, then regenerate the affected VitePress page so its description and
example reflect the source text.

In `@docs/environment_variables.md`:
- Line 262: Align the documented HK_TRACE contract with the values recognized by
the environment parser and settings configuration: remove unsupported text and
off enum values, retaining json, 1, and true with off as the default. Update the
related HK_TRACE documentation and settings declaration consistently.

In `@docs/hooks.md`:
- Line 31: Update the stashing paragraph in the hooks documentation to
explicitly describe identical `--all` selection for `hk run pre-commit --all`
and `hk check --all`: resolved `git` or `patch-file` stashing selects tracked
files only, while `none` also selects discovered untracked files. Document that
`HK_STASH` overrides the hook setting when `--stash` is omitted, and that
`HK_STASH_UNTRACKED=0` disables discovery and stashing of untracked files while
`1` does not add them to `--all` when stashing is enabled.

In `@docs/public/llms.txt`:
- Line 29: Update the Glossary entry in the documentation index so its
description reflects the actual contents of the glossary page rather than
describing a reusable built-in step definition. Preserve the existing link and
replace only the inaccurate descriptive text.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@docs/reference/examples/monorepo.md`:
- Around line 107-108: Resolve the empty mise configuration example in the
surrounding documentation: restore the intended TOML configuration examples, or
remove the paragraph claiming matching configuration is available together with
its empty code fence. Keep the documentation internally consistent.

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  • CONTRIBUTING.md
  • README.md
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