docs

docs/

Four folders, split by audience: public/ is for people outside the repo, docusaurus/ is the docs site itself plus the pages that only exist for it, development/ is for contributors, agents/ is for AI assistants.

public/ — humans outside the repo

• product/ — the site spine, and the only folder here whose paths are public URLs verbatim: quickstart/, concepts/, guides/, examples/, clients/, connect/, operate/, reference/, support/, plus connect/websocket/ (the WebSocket (5565) engine wire protocol, for people building their own client).
• typescript/, python/, mcp/ — the per-SDK guides, each mounted into the docs site. Each folder also holds a README.md (the package distribution readme — see Rules) and an assets/ folder for its own images; mcp/ splits into http/ and stdio/, and its readme source lives at mcp/stdio/README.md.
• n8n/ — README.md only; the export source for packages/n8n-nodes/. Nothing here is published to the site.
• chat-widget/ — README.md only; the export source for packages/chat-widget/README.md. Nothing here is published to the site.
• assets/ — images shared by more than one section.

docusaurus/ — the site, and site-only app pages

The Docusaurus project (docusaurus.config.ts, sidebars.ts, src/, static/, scripts/tasks.js exposing docs:build, docs:check, docs:test (runs docs:validate — the node README + client-doc schema validators, blocking — then docs:unit, the docs helper unit tests), docs:export). It holds no product content — docs:gather assembles the site from public/, from the co-located node docs, and from the one content folder below:

• apps/ — site pages for the two apps that are documented on the site: vscode/ (mounted at /clients/vscode) and, via public/product/guides/apps/app-builder.md, the App Builder. These are the only exceptions to the app-docs rule: every other app's documentation lives in its own package under apps/<app>/ (README.md, docs/, assets/) and is not staged into the site. Do not add a per-app page or spine entry under guides/apps/ or here. An app's README is never here in any case: it lives with the app (apps/vscode/README.md, apps/<app>/README.md), next to its assets/. Not to be confused with development/apps/, which is about building apps inside the monorepo.

development/ — contributors

index.md is the setup guide; the rest is grouped by subsystem, so a new contributor page has exactly one correct home:

• builder/ — reference.md (run builds: commands, modules, output, CLI flags, compiler toolchain), authoring.md (write a package's scripts/tasks.js), pre-commit-hooks.md.
• engine/ — C++ engine internals (index.md), crash-reporting.md, and mcp-module.md.
• nodes/ — index.md (how nodes connect, adding one, local prototyping), services-schema.md (the services*.json contract), readme-schema.md (the node README contract), testing.md.
• clients/ — readme-schema.md, the client-docs contract.
• apps/ — building first-party shell apps inside the monorepo.
• docs-pipeline.md — how this docs system is assembled, and how to add a page.
• ci-gates.md — what gates a PR, and how to reproduce each check locally.

The two documentation contracts (nodes/readme-schema.md, clients/readme-schema.md) are enforced by scripts/validate-node-readme.py and scripts/validate-client-docs.py; move or rename either and update both scripts, which name the schema paths in their output.

Nothing here is published, with no exceptions. docs:gather only sweeps public/ and docusaurus/apps/, so a page whose audience is outside the repo belongs in one of those — move it there rather than mounting out of development/. Per-app user docs are the one kind of outside-the-repo page that stays out of the site: they live in apps/<app>/ (see the apps/ note under docusaurus/ for the two exceptions).

agents/ — AI assistants

• context/ — the eleven ROCKETRIDE_* assistant-facing docs plus stubs/ (the per-assistant pointer files). Installed verbatim into a workspace's .rocketride/docs/ by the VS Code extension and rocketride init, via the docs.zip bundle that client-docs:agent (agents/scripts/tasks.js) stages for the engine's GET /client/docs. Everything in context/ ships.
• skills/ — hand-curated pipeline-building skills. Not in the bundle.

See agents/README.md.

Rules

• Hand-written only. Nothing generated is committed under docs/.
• Node docs stay with their nodes: nodes/src/nodes/<name>/README.md (generated params between markers via nodes:docs-generate), following development/nodes/readme-schema.md — check with python3 scripts/validate-node-readme.py <node-dir>.
• A README.md in a public/ section is that package's README export source — after editing it, run ./builder docs:export to regenerate the committed package README.md. Never hand-edit the package README.md directly. This covers typescript, python, mcp, n8n, and chat-widget. App READMEs (the VS Code marketplace readme, store listings) are not exported: each app owns its README.md and assets/ in its own folder under apps/.
• README.md files are never site pages — the site mounts skip them.
• Image links are relative everywhere (./assets/x.png beside the file), so any branch previews on GitHub. The two copy steps that publish a README outside GitHub — docs:export for the package READMEs and the VSIX stage step for apps/vscode/README.md — rewrite them to raw-GitHub URLs on main via absolutizeImageLinks in scripts/lib. No other README copy is rewritten; the site build's rewrite of node-README example.png/example.pipe references (gather.js) is a separate, site-only step.
• CI runs ./builder docs:check to catch export drift.

Root GitHub files (README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, AGENTS.md, .cursorrules, ...) never move into docs/; they stay at the repo root.