New Documentation Strategy: Unified Publishing with Custom Domain and Enhanced Access Control

October 3, 2026
New Documentation Strategy: Unified Publishing with Custom Domain and Enhanced Access Control
  • We’ll publish human reference docs at /docs and an MCP endpoint at /mcp, with versioned revisions pinned to immutable specs and access control tailored for public, partner, and internal audiences.

  • To illustrate concepts and workflows, link to PowerDuck offerings and blog posts for further reading and demos.

  • Start small: publish one spec for two audiences on the developer subdomain, use a single partner token and two revisions (stable and next) for one month to gather real-world usage and feedback.

  • Adopt a canonical single-domain layout using subpaths for docs and MCP, fronted by a CDN, with a thin stateless MCP adapter mapping operations to tools and schemas to inputSchema.

  • Versioning should avoid path-based versioning to preserve search integrity; use revision identifiers and optional MCP version headers, and propagate a deprecated notice to both docs and tools.

  • Optimize SEO and discoverability for docs with per-operation pages, meaningful titles and descriptions, a sitemap, and plain-text code samples, while MCP endpoints remain non-rankable but provide a machine-readable manifest for discovery.

  • Maintain a boring, reliable CI pipeline: PR validation against OpenAPI 3.2, static docs rendering, MCP adapter image built from the same artifact, staged review, promotion to stable, CDN invalidation, and rollback via revision re-pointing.

  • Introduce a unified publish action that generates both human-facing docs and an MCP endpoint from a single immutable OpenAPI 3.2 artifact on a custom domain.

  • Implement three-audience access control: public operations for external readers, partner operations gated by scoped tokens, and internal operations not published externally and built as a separate internal variant.

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