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Guide for regenerating Axone contract schemas and rendered Markdown docs. Use when contract APIs or metadata change, when checking generated-doc drift, or when preparing documentation commits.

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Generated Documentation

Source of Truth

Generated docs come from Rust API types and schema metadata:

Rust messages/types + metadata.json
              ↓
      contracts/*/schema/*
              ↓
          docs/*.md

In this repository, the canonical command is:

cargo make docs

Do not treat docs/*.md as hand-edited source files. The Rust types and metadata are the source of truth.

What cargo make docs really does

cargo make docs already depends on:

  • prerequisite checks (npx, awk, perl, jq)
  • cargo make schema

That means one docs refresh can update both:

  • contracts/*/schema/*
  • docs/*.md

Standard Workflow

Regenerate everything

cargo make docs

Inspect what changed

git status --short
git diff -- docs contracts

Commit the generated artifacts

If the change is documentation generation only, prefer a message such as:

docs(gov): regenerate documentation
docs(vc): regenerate documentation
docs: regenerate generated documentation

Avoid vague subjects such as docs: update generated documentation.

When regeneration is required

Refresh generated docs whenever you change:

  • message types in msg.rs
  • response types exported in schemas
  • doc comments that feed schema descriptions
  • metadata.json
  • schema generation code in src/bin/schema.rs
  • the docs generation pipeline in Makefile.toml

File Expectations

After regeneration, review and commit all relevant generated artifacts:

  • docs/*.md
  • contracts/*/schema/*

Even if CI only reports drift on docs/*.md, schema files are still generated source artifacts in this repo and should stay in sync with the code.

Repo-Specific Notes

  • cargo make docs is the preferred entrypoint; it already triggers schema generation.
  • The docs renderer uses @fadroma/schema, jq, awk, perl, and prettier through Makefile.toml.
  • The generated docs reflect the semantics encoded in Rust doc comments. Fix the Rust comments first, then regenerate.