Mintlify

Mintlify is a hosted documentation platform that publishes developer docs from a Git repository and exposes them to AI assistants and coding agents. One repository feeds every surface Mintlify generates:

Pages are authored in MDX and configured through a docs.json file. The mint command-line tool, installed from npm and requiring Node.js 20.17 or later, serves a local preview with mint dev, and pushing to the connected repository publishes the site.

Mintlify generates API reference pages and an interactive playground from an OpenAPI 3.0 or 3.1 document, the same artifact that Python frameworks such as FastAPI emit automatically. Mintlify also publishes Doc Writer, a Visual Studio Code and JetBrains extension that drafts Python docstrings in reST, NumPy, or Google style.

Every site gets a generated Model Context Protocol server at the /mcp path, which gives agents search and file-style navigation over the docs. Sites also publish an llms.txt index for LLMs to crawl, and paid plans add the Mintlify Assistant, an in-page chat that answers from the indexed docs with citations.

Comparable options include Read the Docs, GitBook, and Docusaurus. Mintlify differs from Python-native generators such as Sphinx and MkDocs because pages come from MDX files rather than from your Python source, so it won’t build an API reference from your docstrings the way Sphinx autodoc does.

Mintlify was founded in 2021 by Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee.

Official website: mintlify.com

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