docs(sidebar): collapse exploding skills tree to a single Skills node#18259
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The Skills sub-tree in the left sidebar expanded to 200+ entries
(22 bundled categories + 15 optional categories, every skill a page).
That's most of the nav on a first visit — docs for the actual product
get drowned in it.
Collapse the sidebar to:
Skills
godmode (hand-written spotlight)
google-workspace (hand-written spotlight)
Bundled catalog (reference/skills-catalog — table of all bundled)
Optional catalog (reference/optional-skills-catalog — table of all optional)
Per-skill pages still generate and are still reachable at their URLs;
they're linked from the two catalog tables and from the Skills overview
page. They just don't appear in the left nav anymore.
sidebars.ts goes from 649 lines to 247. generate-skill-docs.py loses
the bundled/optional sidebar render helpers.
Also picks up incidental generator output drift on current main
(comfyui skill content refresh; 4 new skill pages for
devops-kanban-orchestrator, devops-kanban-worker,
productivity-here-now, productivity-shopify; two catalog refreshes).
These are what the generator produces on main today — keeping them
committed avoids the next docs build showing 'working tree dirty'.
alt-glitch
added
type/docs
Keep the Skills sidebar node strictly principled: two catalog links,
nothing else. There was no rule for which skills got spotlight pages
and which got auto-generated pages — just that these two happened to
be hand-written first.
Both pages still build and are still reachable at
/docs/user-guide/skills/godmode and
/docs/user-guide/skills/google-workspace. They're linked from the
catalog tables and the Skills overview page.
Sidebar Skills node now:
Skills
├── Bundled catalog
└── Optional catalog
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…NousResearch#18259) * docs(sidebar): collapse exploding skills tree to a single Skills node The Skills sub-tree in the left sidebar expanded to 200+ entries (22 bundled categories + 15 optional categories, every skill a page). That's most of the nav on a first visit — docs for the actual product get drowned in it. Collapse the sidebar to: Skills godmode (hand-written spotlight) google-workspace (hand-written spotlight) Bundled catalog (reference/skills-catalog — table of all bundled) Optional catalog (reference/optional-skills-catalog — table of all optional) Per-skill pages still generate and are still reachable at their URLs; they're linked from the two catalog tables and from the Skills overview page. They just don't appear in the left nav anymore. sidebars.ts goes from 649 lines to 247. generate-skill-docs.py loses the bundled/optional sidebar render helpers. Also picks up incidental generator output drift on current main (comfyui skill content refresh; 4 new skill pages for devops-kanban-orchestrator, devops-kanban-worker, productivity-here-now, productivity-shopify; two catalog refreshes). These are what the generator produces on main today — keeping them committed avoids the next docs build showing 'working tree dirty'. * docs(sidebar): drop godmode and google-workspace spotlight pages Keep the Skills sidebar node strictly principled: two catalog links, nothing else. There was no rule for which skills got spotlight pages and which got auto-generated pages — just that these two happened to be hand-written first. Both pages still build and are still reachable at /docs/user-guide/skills/godmode and /docs/user-guide/skills/google-workspace. They're linked from the catalog tables and the Skills overview page. Sidebar Skills node now: Skills ├── Bundled catalog └── Optional catalog
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Summary
The left sidebar no longer buries product docs under 200+ skill entries. First-time visitors see a navigable nav tree instead of a wall of auto-generated skill pages.
What changed
generate-skill-docs.pywrite_sidebar()stops rendering theBundledandOptionalcategory trees. TheSkillssidebar node now has 4 items: the two hand-written spotlight guides (godmode,google-workspace) and links to the two catalog pages (reference/skills-catalog,reference/optional-skills-catalog).sidebars.ts: 649 → 247 lines (regenerated by the updated script).Incidental drift picked up by running the generator on current main
creative-comfyui.md: upstream SKILL.md was updated more recently than the generated doc; content re-synced.devops-kanban-orchestrator,devops-kanban-worker,productivity-here-now,productivity-shopify.These are what the generator produces on main today — committing them avoids the next docs build showing 'working tree dirty'.
Motivation
Matt Palmer flagged the docs as 'overwhelming navigation structure.' 200+ sidebar entries under
Features > Skillswere the main culprit. Catalog pages are the right landing for skill browsing; the sidebar should scaffold the product, not enumerate the library.Validation
Builds clean. All 149 skill pages present in
build/. Only warning is the pre-existing broken anchor inadding-platform-adapters(unrelated).