Pie Docs Authoring

Authoring PIE docs

The single source of truth for all pie-docs authoring conventions is apps/pie-docs/AUTHORING_GUIDE.md. Read it before writing or reviewing any content. Do not duplicate or paraphrase its rules here. Follow the guide directly so guidance never drifts. The same file backs the GitHub Copilot review instructions.

Workflow

1. Read apps/pie-docs/AUTHORING_GUIDE.md in full. It is the authority on every rule below.

2. Identify the task and jump to the matching section of the guide:

   Task	Guide section
   Add a top-level nav section	Creating a new navigation section
   Add a component, pattern or foundation page	Creating tabbed pages
   Add landing content to a nav item	Adding index pages
   Mark a page or section not ready for production	Drafts
   Any wording, frontmatter, shortcode or link question	Conventions and quality rules

3. Author or edit the content following the guide's examples and rules exactly.

4. Work through "Before you publish" below before presenting the work.

Before you publish

The guide's "Conventions and quality rules" section is the checklist. Verify the content against it directly. Don't rely on this skill to restate the rules.

Two things the guide can't do for you, so do them yourself.

1. Actively check the rules that fail silently. These produce no build error, so reading the rule is not enough. You have to confirm each one:

• Nav parent / key and .json navKey actually match (guide, "Frontmatter correctness").
• ogImage, image src, and index card files actually exist on disk (guide, "Asset references").
• indexPageDisplay itemKey matches the section key exactly (guide, "Shortcode usage").

2. Build it and inspect the output. Run the production build with the Turborepo commands in AGENTS.md, and don't cd into the app. The build catches the loud failures, such as a missing icon that throws or bad frontmatter. The generated HTML in apps/pie-docs/dist/ confirms the silent ones didn't bite, with no dev server or browser needed:

yarn build --filter=@justeattakeaway/pie-docs   # must finish with no errors

Then in apps/pie-docs/dist/:

• The new page rendered, and was not dropped as a draft: its index.html exists at the expected path, for example dist/example/introduction/index.html.
• It joined the nav, so parent / key matched: the new entry appears in the nav markup of the built pages. A silent mismatch leaves it absent.

3. If you added or removed a page, regenerate the route snapshot. A stale expected-routes.snapshot.json fails the navigation tests:

yarn test:generate-routes --filter=@justeattakeaway/pie-docs

Notes

• All paths above are relative to the repo root.
• If anything in this skill conflicts with the guide, the guide wins. Update the skill to match.