Changelog

AI assistant

You can now add an AI assistant to your documentation. Configure a provider in docs.json and your users get a chat interface grounded in your docs content. Supports Anthropic, OpenAI, and self-hosted Ollama.

  "ai": {
    "provider": "anthropic",
    "apiKey": "${ANTHROPIC_API_KEY}",
    "suggestedQuestions": ["How do I get started?"]
  }

All fields under ai support ${ENV_VAR} interpolation to keep keys out of your repo.

SEO and AI discoverability

Viabl now generates a sitemap, llms.txt, and robots.txt automatically. Added aiScraping to docs.json to block known AI crawlers. Added noIndex frontmatter field to hide individual pages from search engines. Improved Open Graph support with proper image generation for social sharing.

Navigation improvements

The navigation configuration now supports three formats — legacy array, dictionary mapped to tabs, and raw string format for headerless sidebar items. Added "all" as a reserved key for persistent sidebar items that appear on every tab.

Telemetry

Viabl now collects anonymous usage data to help improve the tool. Telemetry is enabled by default and can be opted out at any time.

  viabl telemetry disable

To check the current status:

  viabl telemetry status

No personal information, file contents, or project names are ever collected. Only CLI commands, versions, platform info, and success/failure signals are tracked.

VIbal server and render

• base url, for reverse proxying and og image in the frontmatter
• url field for OG sharing sitemaps and llm
• Disabled watcher for production environment, only allowed for dev mode only

Windows support

Fixed docs not running on Windows by replacing the native spawn with cross-spawn. This resolves path and shell compatibility issues on Windows systems.

viable server improvements

Streamlined content server initialisation and adjusted TypeScript compiler configuration for better compatibility across platforms.

add packaging for renderer sources and update release step to include all assetss

Initial release of Viabl.