# Redoc OpenAPI Documentation Renderer

> Redoc is an open-source tool by Redocly for generating beautiful, three-panel API reference documentation from OpenAPI specifications. With 25,000+ GitHub stars and nearly 1 million weekly npm downloads, it is the most widely used API documentation renderer.

- Skill: `agentskillexchange/redoc-openapi-documentation-renderer` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add agentskillexchange/redoc-openapi-documentation-renderer`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/agentskillexchange/redoc-openapi-documentation-renderer/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Docs & Writing
- Author: agentskillexchange (https://skillmd.com/u/agentskillexchange)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/agentskillexchange/redoc-openapi-documentation-renderer

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# Redoc OpenAPI Documentation Renderer

Redoc is an open-source tool by Redocly for generating beautiful, three-panel API reference documentation from OpenAPI specifications. It is the most widely used API documentation renderer.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- npx @redocly/cli build-docs openapi.yaml

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Redoc is provided as a CLI tool (also distributed as a Docker image), HTML tag, and React component.
- If you have Node installed, quickly generate documentation using npx:
- [Docker Engine](https://docs.docker.com/engine/api/v1.25/)

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- ### Generate documentation from the CLI
- bash
- The tool outputs by default to a file named redoc-static.html that you can open in your browser.

- Source: https://github.com/Redocly/redoc
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Redocly/redoc/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/redoc-openapi-documentation-renderer/)