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Documentation quality check: fix gaps in recently changed pages - #7139

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Summary

Reviewed the 19 English MDX pages changed in the last day, evaluated each for reader-facing gaps, and fixed the five highest-cost issues. All fixes were verified against the server and mint codebases or the page's own linked sources. A follow-up best-practices pass mirrored every change into the Spanish, French, and Chinese translations.

Changes

  • poc-onboarding.mdx
    • Gap: claimed authentication requires a custom domain or *.mintlify.app subdomain, contradicting /deploy/authentication-setup (auth works on .mintlify.site, verified in server auth code). This wrong prerequisite could push evaluators into 1–2 hours of unnecessary DNS work.
    • Fix: corrected the domain claim and linked /deploy/authentication-setup from the domain note, the participants table, and the timeline.
  • ai/mintlify-mcp.mdx
    • Gap: the page promised "change settings, create workflows, and more" but never documented the code-mode tools, and claimed "all changes happen on a branch and require a pull request," which is wrong for deployment management writes (they apply immediately to the live deployment, per the server's admin MCP tool definitions).
    • Fix: scoped the branch/PR guarantee to content edits, added a "Deployment management" tool section covering search_code_operations and execute_code, and added a warning that code-mode writes apply immediately with no PR safety net.
  • deploy/route53-cloudfront.mdx
    • Gap: the Overview said CachingEnabled (not an AWS managed policy) while the behavior steps correctly say CachingOptimized; and the guide never mentioned adding the domain as an Alternate domain name (CNAME) with an ACM certificate, a prerequisite listed in the AWS guide the page links, without which the final Route 53 step fails.
    • Fix: unified on CachingOptimized and added the alternate domain name + ACM certificate prerequisite before the Route 53 steps.
  • editor/pages.mdx
    • Gap: no documented way to delete a page, leaving the page lifecycle incomplete (feature verified in the editor UI code: Move to trash / Delete page / Remove from publishing).
    • Fix: added a "Delete a page" section covering workspace pages, undo, publish-time commit, unlisting, and private-page deletion.
  • cli/commands.mdx
    • Gap: the command reference never says how to get the mint binary.
    • Fix: added a one-line pointer to /cli/install at the top.

Translations

  • Mirrored all five diffs into the es/, fr/, and zh/ counterparts (15 files), following repo conventions: <div id> English-slug heading anchors, language-prefixed internal links, English UI labels preserved.
  • Removed a now-redundant trailing "See Authentication setup" sentence in the translated poc-onboarding files, since the link is now inline, matching the English.
  • Replaced pre-existing &quot; HTML entities with real quotes in es/deploy/route53-cloudfront.mdx.
  • No docs.json structural changes in this PR, so es.json/fr.json/zh.json needed no updates. SEO, typo, and style checks on the five English files found nothing to fix; mint validate and mint broken-links both pass.

Gaps deliberately left unfixed

  • deploy/ghes.mdx: supported GHES versions are not stated, but no version constraint is verifiable in the repos. Needs input from the team rather than an invented range.
  • deploy/route53-cloudfront.mdx: the "Check that you set up behaviors correctly" screenshot shows 4 behaviors but the text now requires 6. Needs a regenerated screenshot.
  • integrations/analytics/google-tag-manager.mdx: no "find your tag ID" section; the GTM UI location isn't verifiable from the repos, so nothing was invented.

Also worth reviewing (low severity, not touched)

  • integrations/analytics/clarity.mdx: could link verification guidance from the analytics overview.
  • ai/skillmd.mdx: could state that custom skill files go live with the normal deploy rather than the 24-hour regeneration cycle (verifiable in server deploy code).
  • ai/llmstxt.mdx: typo "ins't" in the final note.

Pages evaluated with no gaps: deploy/preview-deployments.mdx, api/preview/trigger.mdx, help-center/preview-deployment-not-created-for-fork-branch.mdx, deploy/deployments.mdx, analytics/user-engagements.mdx, editor/index.mdx, quickstart.mdx, guides/git-concepts.mdx, changelog.mdx, ai/skillmd.mdx (low only).


Note

Low Risk
Changes are MDX documentation and translations only; no application code, auth logic, or infrastructure behavior is modified.

Overview
Documentation-only updates across five English topics and mirrored es, fr, and zh pages to close reader-facing gaps found in a recent quality pass.

Admin MCP (ai/mintlify-mcp.mdx): Separates content edits (branch + save / PR) from deployment management (immediate live changes). Adds a Deployment management section for code mode (search_code_operations, execute_code) and warnings that those writes skip branches and PRs.

POC onboarding (poc-onboarding.mdx): Corrects authentication hosting (works on .mintlify.site or custom domain, not custom subpaths). Reframes IT/identity admin tasks (IdP for auth testing, DNS only when adding a custom domain) and links authentication setup from the timeline and domain note.

Route 53 / CloudFront (deploy/route53-cloudfront.mdx): Aligns overview cache policy naming to CachingOptimized and documents alternate domain (CNAME) + ACM (us-east-1) before creating the Route 53 alias record.

Editor (editor/pages.mdx): Adds Delete a page (trash vs Remove from publishing, roles); localized pages include extra undo/repo/private-page detail.

CLI (cli/commands.mdx): Adds a one-line link to Install the CLI at the top of the command reference.

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ethanpalm and others added 2 commits August 31, 2026 10:19
- route53-cloudfront: split the Route 53 section into "Add your domain to
  the distribution" and "Create the Route 53 record", give the alternate
  domain name / ACM step numbered steps and the console path, and warn
  that CloudFront only accepts certificates issued in us-east-1
- cli/commands: drop the intro sentence that restated the frontmatter
  description; match the link text to the target page title
- poc-onboarding: stop coupling DNS setup to authentication in the
  participants table, since auth works on .mintlify.site
- editor/pages: note that "Move to trash" has no trash view to restore
  from, and that recovery after publishing is through the repository

Mirrored into es, fr, and zh.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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