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Regenerate the HTML docs site (CLI Reference, Configuration, content sections) from decorators, the pydantic config schema, and markdown source files

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Regenerate the docs site from three sources:

  • CLI Reference — generated from @doc_ref decorators on Typer commands
  • Configuration — generated from Field(..., description=...) on the pydantic config schema in mycelium-cli/src/mycelium/config.py
  • Content sections — generated from markdown files in mycelium-cli/src/mycelium/docs/

Steps:

  1. Run: cd mycelium-cli && uv run python ../docs/generate_docs.py
  2. Report what was generated

Adding a new CLI command

If a CLI command was added or modified and doesn't have a @doc_ref decorator, add one:

from mycelium.doc_ref import doc_ref

@doc_ref(
    usage="mycelium <group> <command> <args>",
    desc="One-line description. May contain <code>html</code>.",
    group="room",  # setup, room, memory, message, adapter, config, or "other"
)
@app.command()
def my_command(...): ...

Groups: setup, room, memory, message, adapter, config, other

Adding a new config knob

Each pydantic field on a sub-model of MyceliumConfig becomes a row in the Configuration section of the docs. The only requirement is a non-empty description=:

class NegotiationConfig(BaseModel):
    """Tunables for the CFN-mediated negotiation flow."""

    n_steps: int = Field(
        default=20,
        description=(
            "Maximum SAO rounds per session. Set to 0 to fall through to "
            "CFN's auto-computed budget."
        ),
    )

Whatever shows up in description= is what users will read. Spell it out — assume the reader doesn't know what SAO or CFN is. To add a brand new namespace:

  1. Add a <NewName>Config(BaseModel) class with Field(..., description=...) on every field.
  2. Wire it onto MyceliumConfig (e.g. new_name: NewNameConfig = Field(default_factory=NewNameConfig)).
  3. Optionally add the namespace to CONFIG_NAMESPACE_ORDER in docs/generate_docs.py to control its position; otherwise it appends after the listed namespaces.
  4. Re-run the generator.

The generator skips namespaces typed as bare dict (e.g. adapters) — see CONFIG_NAMESPACE_SKIP.

Markdown source

Markdown files in mycelium-cli/src/mycelium/docs/ are converted to HTML and embedded in the right <section> of docs/index.html. Sections in the existing HTML marked with <!-- keep --> are preserved verbatim (used for hand-crafted interactive components).

Then re-run the generator.