seite 0.2.1 - Docs.rs

Managing a startup's web presence has always felt disproportionately painful. A CMS for the marketing site. A separate docs platform. A blog tool. A changelog app. Each with its own login, its own subscription, none of it connected to how you actually build the product.

Meanwhile your team ships software with AI assistance every day. seite closes that gap. One CLI tool for your landing page, docs, blog, changelog, and roadmap — managed with the coding agent you already use, with no new subscriptions required.

It was built with Claude Code. This site is managed with Claude Code. That's the point.

curl -fsSL https://seite.sh/install.sh | sh
seite init mysite --title "My Site" --collections posts,docs,pages
cd mysite && seite serve

Why seite

Most static site generators produce HTML and stop there. seite builds for three audiences at once:

Browsers get pages with full SEO metadata, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, and JSON-LD structured data
LLMs get llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and a .md copy of every page for direct consumption
AI tools get a built-in MCP server that exposes your entire site as structured resources

All from Markdown + YAML frontmatter. No JavaScript runtime. No build dependencies. One binary does everything. 331 tests, 139 unit and 192 integration.

AI integration

This is where seite is different from every other SSG.

Agent

seite agent spawns Claude Code with full site context — config, content inventory, templates, and available commands. No API keys, no setup. It uses your Claude Code subscription directly.

seite agent "write a post about our v1.2 release — here are the notes: ..."
seite agent "rewrite the homepage hero, our positioning shifted to B2B"
seite agent "generate docs stubs for each CLI command"
seite agent        # interactive session

The agent reads your schema, your templates, and your existing content before it writes anything. The output lands in the right directory, with the right frontmatter, following your conventions. You review a diff and ship it.

MCP server

seite mcp runs a Model Context Protocol server over stdio. Claude Code auto-starts it via .claude/settings.json, generated by seite init. Any MCP-compatible AI tool can use it.

Resources — seite://docs, seite://config, seite://content, seite://themes, seite://trust

Tools — seite_build, seite_create_content, seite_search, seite_apply_theme, seite_lookup_docs

This means your AI tool doesn't just have read access to your site — it has a structured interface to build, search, and modify it.

LLM discovery

Every build generates llms.txt (summary) and llms-full.txt (complete markdown) for LLM indexing, plus a .md copy of every page. Multilingual sites get per-language versions. Traditional SEO and GEO handled in one pipeline, automatically.

Features

6 bundled themes — default, minimal, dark, docs, brutalist, bento — or generate a custom one with seite theme create "coral brutalist with lime accents"
6 collection presets — posts, docs, pages, changelog, roadmap, and trust center
Multi-language — filename-based i18n with per-language URLs, RSS feeds, sitemaps, search indexes, and hreflang tags
Image pipeline — auto-resize, WebP conversion, srcset/<picture> elements, lazy loading
Deploy anywhere — GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify with guided setup, pre-flight checks, and --dry-run
Analytics — Google Analytics, GTM, Plausible, Fathom, Umami with optional cookie consent banner
Shortcodes — youtube, vimeo, gist, callout, figure built-in, plus user-defined templates
Multi-site workspaces — manage multiple sites from one directory with unified dev server
Self-update — seite self-update fetches the latest release with SHA256 checksum verification

Install

macOS / Linux:

curl -fsSL https://seite.sh/install.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell):

irm https://seite.sh/install.ps1 | iex

From source (requires Rust):

cargo install seite

Pin a specific version:

VERSION=v0.1.0 curl -fsSL https://seite.sh/install.sh | sh

Quickstart

seite init mysite --title "My Site" --collections posts,docs,pages
cd mysite
seite serve

Open http://localhost:3000. Edit content in content/, templates in templates/. Live reload on every change.

# Create content
seite new post "Hello World" --tags intro,rust
seite new doc "Getting Started"
seite new changelog "v1.0.0" --tags new,improvement

# Deploy
seite deploy              # commit, push, build, deploy
seite deploy --dry-run    # preview what would happen
seite deploy --setup      # guided first-time setup

Build output

seite build runs a 13-step pipeline and produces:

dist/
├── index.html
├── posts/
│   ├── hello-world.html       # HTML for browsers
│   └── hello-world.md         # Markdown for LLMs
├── docs/
│   └── getting-started.html
├── feed.xml
├── sitemap.xml
├── search-index.json
├── robots.txt
├── llms.txt
├── llms-full.txt
├── 404.html
└── static/

Every HTML page includes canonical URLs, Open Graph tags, Twitter Cards, JSON-LD structured data, and a link to its markdown alternate.

Collections

Preset	Dated	RSS	Nested	Use case
posts	✓	✓	—	Blog posts, articles
docs	—	—	✓	Documentation with sidebar navigation
pages	—	—	—	Standalone pages (About, Contact)
changelog	✓	✓	—	Release notes with colored tag badges
roadmap	—	—	—	Public roadmap with status tracking
trust	—	—	✓	Compliance hub (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR)

seite collection add changelog
seite new changelog "v2.0" --tags new,breaking

Themes

Six themes ship with the binary — no downloads, no CDNs:

Theme	Description
default	Clean centered column, system fonts, blue links
minimal	Georgia serif, literary feel, generous whitespace
dark	True black `#0a0a0a`, violet accents, visible focus rings
docs	Fixed sidebar with auto-scrolling nav, GitHub-style
brutalist	Cream background, thick black borders, hard shadows, yellow accents
bento	CSS grid cards, rounded corners, mixed sizes, soft shadows

seite theme list
seite theme apply dark
seite theme create "neon cyberpunk on black"
seite theme install https://example.com/t.tera
seite theme export my-theme

Multi-language

Filename-based translations. Single-language sites need no config.

content/posts/
├── hello-world.md        → /posts/hello-world
├── hello-world.es.md     → /es/posts/hello-world
└── hello-world.fr.md     → /fr/posts/hello-world

[languages.es]
title = "Mi Sitio"

[languages.fr]
title = "Mon Site"

Configuration

# seite.toml — minimal
[site]
title = "My Site"
base_url = "https://example.com"

[[collections]]
name = "posts"

[site]
title = "My Site"
description = "A site built with seite"
base_url = "https://example.com"
language = "en"
author = "Your Name"

[[collections]]
name = "posts"
# name = "docs" | "pages" | "changelog" | "roadmap" | "trust"
# paginate = 10

[build]
output_dir = "dist"
data_dir = "data"
minify = true
fingerprint = true

[deploy]
target = "github-pages"   # or "cloudflare" or "netlify"
auto_commit = true

[images]
widths = [480, 800, 1200]
quality = 80
webp = true
lazy_loading = true

[analytics]
provider = "plausible"    # or "google", "gtm", "fathom", "umami"
id = "example.com"
cookie_consent = false

[languages.es]
title = "Mi Sitio"

[trust]
company = "Acme Corp"
frameworks = ["soc2", "iso27001"]

Data files

Drop YAML, JSON, or TOML in data/ and access in any template:

# data/nav.yaml
- title: Blog
  url: /posts
- title: Docs
  url: /docs

Available as {{ data.nav }} in all templates.

Workspaces

seite workspace init my-workspace
seite workspace add blog --collections posts,pages
seite workspace add docs --collections docs
seite build --site blog
seite serve
seite deploy

Deployment

seite deploy
seite deploy --dry-run
seite deploy --setup
seite deploy --domain example.com

[deploy]
target = "cloudflare"    # or "github-pages" or "netlify"

seite init auto-generates the CI workflow for your chosen target.

Documentation

Full docs at seite.sh/docs

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Open an issue to discuss larger changes before submitting a PR.

cargo build
cargo test        # 331 tests (139 unit + 192 integration)
cargo clippy      # must be zero warnings

License

MIT