Documentation is insurance for the future

Synlace released a Starlight documentation scaffold that adds a searchable, themed documentation site to any project with a single command. The scaffold includes dark/light mode, full-text search, sidebar navigation, Mermaid diagrams, and mobile responsiveness, and is downloaded as a tarball from GitHub without submodules or build services.

Starlight documentation scaffold for any project. One command to add a searchable, themed documentation site to your repo. curl -fsSL https://github.com/synlace/project-docs/raw/main/init.sh | bash To get the latest SHA, check the latest commit https://github.com/synlace/project-docs/commits/main . Example documentation site for Marlint, a real-time AI phishing detection browser extension. project/ ├── project-docs/ Starlight docs site │ ├── package.json │ ├── astro.config.mjs edit title, sidebar, social links │ └── src/content/docs/ your documentation pages │ └── index.mdx ├── justfile-doc just recipes import into justfile └── justfile auto-created with import if missing - Dark / light mode - Full-text search - Sidebar navigation - Mermaid diagrams - Mobile responsive - Static HTML output npm run build Once imported, run from your project root: | Command | Description | |---|---| just doc | Start dev server | just doc init | Install npm dependencies | just doc build | Build static site | just doc preview | Preview production build | just doc uninstall | Remove scaffold and import | The template is downloaded as a tarball from GitHub. No submodules, no npm publishing, no build service. Each project owns its project-docs/ directory — edits config, writes content, commits everything to its own repo. The template is a starting point, not a dependency. To pull in config improvements later: SHA=$ curl -fsSL https://api.github.com/repos/synlace/project-docs/commits/main | python3 -c "import sys,json; print json.load sys.stdin 'sha' :7 " diff -rq project-docs/ < curl -fsSL "https://github.com/synlace/project-docs/archive/$SHA.tar.gz" | tar -xz --strip-components=1 Cherry-pick what you want.