journey-docs

Documents

Use as the docs-priming stage of the Butterbase journey, immediately after journey-preflight and before the first build stage. Reads the plan to discover which capabilities the app uses, calls butterbase_docs once per relevant topic, and caches a summary the build stages can re-read.

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Journey Docs Gate

A short, mechanical priming step. The goal is that every downstream stage starts with the relevant docs already in the conversation, so the model doesn't invent API shapes.

When to use

Invoke automatically after journey-preflight returns. Also invoke standalone (/butterbase-skills:journey-docs) any time the user changes the plan or you realize a stage is using a capability you haven't refreshed this session.

Procedure

Read the plan. Open docs/butterbase/02-plan.md. Identify every Butterbase capability in use (Tables → schema; RLS → auth; Auth → auth; Storage → storage; Functions → functions; AI → ai; RAG → rag; Realtime → realtime; Durable → functions; Frontend → frontend; Integrations → integrations; Substrate → substrate; Payments → billing).
Call butterbase_docs per topic. For each unique topic from step 1, call butterbase_docs with that topic argument. Skip duplicates.

Write the cache file. Create docs/butterbase/03b-docs-cache.md with this structure:

---
primed_at: <ISO timestamp>
topics: [<comma-separated list>]
---

# Docs Cache

## <topic-1>
<one-paragraph summary of what the MCP doc says — key endpoints, common patterns, gotchas>
URL: https://docs.butterbase.ai/<area>

## <topic-2>
...

Update 00-state.md. Tick the docs row.
Return. One-line summary: "Primed docs for: schema, auth, storage, functions. Cache at docs/butterbase/03b-docs-cache.md."

Anti-patterns

❌ Calling butterbase_docs with topic: "all". Burns context. Call once per relevant topic instead.
❌ Skipping the cache file. Other stages re-read it; in-memory only doesn't survive context compression.
❌ Calling for topics not in the plan. We're priming, not exhaustive.