feat: add LLM-friendly Markdown output and llms.txt for every page

[RounakKumarAgarwal]

Closes #1205

What this does

Every content page now publishes a clean Markdown sibling (/index.md) containing only the substantive content — no navbar, sidebar, or footer — plus a site-wide /llms.txt index and a visible "View as Markdown" link in the page footer.

Upstream investigation (per the issue's sourcing requirement)
Hugo core already provides a built-in markdown output format (text/markdown, isPlainText) in its default formats, so no custom Go code or media type is strictly required — the capability is native.
Docsy added first-class "agent support" (Markdown page output + a "View Markdown" page-meta link + llms.txt) in v0.15.0 (May 2026), via PRs #2597, #2599 ("Drop Markdown output fmt since Hugo defines it"), #2601, #2605, #2606.
This repo pins Docsy v0.14.3 (go.mod), which predates that release, so the upstream feature isn't available to us yet.
Approach

Since upstreaming isn't an option at 0.14.3, this backports the capability locally using Hugo's native output-format mechanism:

hugo.toml: declare markdown + llms output formats and add them to the page/section/home outputs.
layouts/_default/single.md and list.md: emit .RawContent for clean page/section Markdown.
layouts/index.llms.txt: generate a spec-compliant /llms.txt (H1, summary blockquote, ## Docs link list).
layouts/partials/footer.html: add the visible "View as Markdown" link beside "Edit This Page."

Recommendation: when Docsy is upgraded to ≥0.15.0, this local backport can be removed in favor of the built-in agent-support feature.

Testing

Built and served locally with Hugo Extended v0.164.0 (deploy target is v0.140.2 per CONTRIBUTING; the features used exist in both). Verified: doc pages render normally, /index.md returns clean Markdown, /llms.txt lists all pages, and the footer link resolves correctly.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added Markdown and plain-text documentation outputs for home, page, and section routes while retaining existing HTML, RSS, and sitemap outputs.
  • Added Markdown-friendly list and single-page views with titles, descriptions, and child-page links.
  • Added a documentation index with links to regular pages and optional descriptions.
• Improvements
  • Updated the footer’s “View as Markdown” link to open the page’s Markdown version directly.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The site now publishes Markdown and llms outputs for documentation routes. New templates render clean page content and an index. The footer adds a conditional “View as Markdown” link.

Changes

LLM-friendly documentation outputs

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure alternate outputs hugo.toml	Registers Markdown and llms output formats and enables them for home, section, and page routes.
Render clean content outputs layouts/_default/list.md, layouts/_default/single.md, layouts/index.llms.txt	Renders titles, descriptions, raw content, child-page links, and the documentation index.
Expose Markdown page links layouts/partials/footer.html	Adds a conditional “View as Markdown” link and reformats existing footer markup without changing its behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f2606

This adds clean Markdown documentation pages, an llms.txt index, and visible Markdown links without identified current-head merge risks.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant Hugo
  participant PageTemplate
  participant MarkdownOutput
  Browser->>Hugo: Request documentation page
  Hugo->>PageTemplate: Render clean page content
  PageTemplate->>MarkdownOutput: Generate Markdown representation
  Hugo-->>Browser: Return page with View as Markdown link
  Browser->>MarkdownOutput: Follow Markdown link
  MarkdownOutput-->>Browser: Return Markdown content

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The implementation provides automatic Markdown and plain-text outputs, a visible per-page Markdown link, clean content templates, and a site-wide llms.txt index. The provided changes do not show the r…	Add repository documentation, such as a CONTRIBUTING.md section or design document, that explains the Hugo output formats, page templates, footer link, llms.txt generation, and maintenance requirements. Include supporting Hugo and Docsy res…

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main changes: LLM-friendly Markdown output and an llms.txt index for pages.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within scope. The output formats, content templates, llms.txt index, and footer link directly support the linked issue. The footer reformatting is incidental to the link change and …
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…

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Explanation

The implementation provides automatic Markdown and plain-text outputs, a visible per-page Markdown link, clean content templates, and a site-wide llms.txt index. The provided changes do not show the required contributor or design documentation for future maintainers.

Resolution

Add repository documentation, such as a CONTRIBUTING.md section or design document, that explains the Hugo output formats, page templates, footer link, llms.txt generation, and maintenance requirements. Include supporting Hugo and Docsy research links or evidence there or in the linked issue/PR description.

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Actionable comments posted: 4

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

hugo.toml (1)

99-102: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep Hugo's built-in Markdown media type intact.

Hugo already defines text/markdown and the markdown output format. Its built-in suffix list includes md, mdown, and markdown; overriding it with ["md"] can change how non-.md content files are classified. Remove this override unless the site intentionally rejects those extensions, or preserve the required suffixes. Verify against Hugo 0.140.2 and 0.164.0. (gohugo.io)

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In `@hugo.toml` around lines 99 - 102, Remove the custom text/markdown media type
override from mediaTypes, or preserve Hugo’s built-in md, mdown, and markdown
suffixes if an explicit configuration is required, maintaining compatibility
with Hugo 0.140.2 and 0.164.0.

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minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@layouts/_default/list.md`:
- Line 1: Update the title output in layouts/_default/list.md at lines 1-1 and
layouts/_default/single.md at lines 1-1 to render each document title as a
level-one Markdown heading using the existing .Title value.
- Line 7: Resolve the Markdown output format at all three affected sites using
.OutputFormats.Get "markdown": update layouts/_default/list.md and
layouts/partials/footer.html to use its .RelPermalink, and
layouts/index.llms.txt to use its .Permalink.

In `@layouts/index.llms.txt`:
- Line 3: Update the description expression in the llms.txt template to use
.Site.Home.Description instead of .Site.Params.description, while retaining the
existing fallback text when the home description is unavailable.

In `@layouts/partials/footer.html`:
- Around line 95-97: Align the view-markdown span, its nested .File template
block, and the Markdown link with the indentation level of adjacent footer spans
while preserving the existing Hugo template structure and behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@hugo.toml`:
- Around line 99-102: Remove the custom text/markdown media type override from
mediaTypes, or preserve Hugo’s built-in md, mdown, and markdown suffixes if an
explicit configuration is required, maintaining compatibility with Hugo 0.140.2
and 0.164.0.

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