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AI citations changelog

Whether ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can read you — and quote you. This is the AI citations slice of the full Docsbook changelog; an entry appears here whenever what it shipped moves this number, whichever part of the panel it landed in.

NEW - 02.09.2026#

Added#

  • Every action tool names the number it is bought to move — support load, organic traffic, AI citations, time to answer, conversion and eight more — in its own description, so an agent choosing between them is choosing an outcome. MCP
  • Copying a prompt from the Prompts table now appends what the receiving assistant cannot know: which project it is about, the project's docs URL and repository, the Docsbook MCP endpoint, the tools that prompt calls, and an instruction not to invent what only those tools could have answered. The same sentence pasted into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex used to read as a request about no particular site. The note is composed at the clipboard only — it is never stored and never sent on a scheduled run. Prompts

Changed#

  • The 44 previous audit-shaped tools (audit_seo, map_capabilities, diagnose_traffic_drop and the rest) have been replaced rather than renamed. The tools reference lists what took over each one; the four run_docs_* background jobs, audit_geo and the five collect_* collectors are unchanged. MCP

NEW - 30.08.2026#

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  • Your agent can now ask one question and get a checked answer back. Nineteen scenario tools each answer a single question about your docs — which pages are one edit away from traffic they already rank for (audit_seo), why traffic fell and what was ruled out (diagnose_traffic_drop), which pages you do not have yet (find_content_gaps), whether a change actually worked (verify_change_impact), whether answer engines can quote you (audit_geo), and fifteen more — each returning a structured answer instead of a paragraph to read. MCP
  • Hovering a point on the traffic chart now offers Analyze beside the date, which accounts for that one hour or day: whether it is unusual at all against the days around it, and what a spike was actually made of, a crawler and a launch being identical in a visitor count. The chart is now reachable by keyboard as well, with the arrow keys walking between points. Analytics
  • The SEO, GEO and AEO cards each gained the same pair, and Analyze reads your live pages rather than the switch: a setting that is on while the markup never renders is exactly what a green Active pill cannot tell you. SEO
  • The event picker now offers every event your workspace can actually react to, in plain words with the machine name under them, grouped the way Feeds groups the same events, with a filter box pinned above a list that is now past forty. Prompts
  • Beside it, an Impact column says what running it typically moves and which way — support load, upkeep hours, manual watching, time to an answer, citations, markets, traffic, conversion — green for up and red for down, where down is the good one on anything that costs you. Prompts
  • Prompts gained an Impact menu of its own beside Filters, for the prompts that move one particular thing — support load, upkeep hours, manual checks, time to an answer, citations, markets, traffic, conversion. It asks what you are trying to move rather than what a prompt is about, so a support inbox on fire collects the prompts that help with it whatever they are tagged and whether or not you have ever touched one. Picking two means either would help, not both at once, and every family carries the count it would leave. Prompts
  • Ten new scenario tools answer a question about your business rather than about your docs. What every product a buyer considers instead of yours gives away for free, and the need none of them serves (map_competitor_free_offers). Which reader question is answered by a working calculator or validator rather than by a paragraph, and whether it is an existing widget, a custom one, or something needing a service behind it (design_free_tools). Whether a repeating axis in your product justifies a generated page family, and whether a machine can keep that family correct (plan_page_family). MCP
  • assess_content_roi is the one that gives you permission to stop: which pages earn their upkeep, and which to merge, redirect or retire. It works out which low-traffic pages are protected by inbound links or assistant citations first, and never proposes retiring one of those — deleting a page something external points at spends a link profile that cannot be bought back. MCP
  • Every section of the panel that has its own release notes now carries a Change Log button in its header, beside Dashboard — Changes, MCP, Prompts, Chat, SEO & GEO, Translations and Feeds each open only what shipped in that section, instead of the whole product's history. Dashboard

Changed#

  • The button on Search rankings no longer switches SEO, GEO and AEO on for you. It walks you to them instead: the panel moves to Settings ▸ SEO & GEO, lights each of the three in turn and says what it does and who it is for — search engines, AI answer engines, or featured snippets and voice — and the last step brings you back to Search rankings. Each switch stays live under the light, so you can turn one on where you are standing or just press Next. SEO

Fixed#

  • The public skills catalog now spells names the way the rest of the product does — SEO and GEO rather than "Seo" and "Geo". Skills

NEW - 28.08.2026#

Added#

  • A commit in Changes now reads as a commit and is then measured: its labels, title, description and byline above ten indicators — readers, time reading, dead rate, CTA rate and AI citations measured, then score, earned, revenue, spent and steps to the CTA estimated — over a gallery of the files it touched. Picking a file re-points every number at that file alone. Changes

Changed#

  • The Overview is now one card for the site itself — its picture, address, plan and source repository, with Visit and a menu carrying the address and llms.txt — above a row of three readouts. Dashboard

NEW - 23.08.2026#

Changed#

  • The AI crawler chart moved from the metrics row into the AI tab of the Referrers card, above the per-bot totals it explains. Analytics

NEW - 22.08.2026#

Added#

  • Search rankings now opens with a one-click activation prompt when SEO, GEO and AEO are all off — showing what your rankings will look like and turning any of them on, free on every plan, instead of an empty tab. SEO

Changed#

  • Tool, agent and skill names across the Agents tab read as names (Docs Planner, not docs-planner), with the machine id kept verbatim under each title. Agents

NEW - 14.08.2026#

Changed#

  • Disabled SEO, GEO and AEO toggles now sort to the top of the SEO panel so you see what to turn on first; a toggle you just enabled stays put until you reopen the panel. Settings

NEW - 03.08.2026#

Fixed#

  • Pricing pages across the docs (blog comparisons, MCP reference, AI features overview, quick-start, branding guide) no longer show AI chat, SEO/GEO/AEO, or the MCP server as paid-tier features — they are free on every plan, including Free. Custom domain and white-label are now correctly attributed to Business (not Pro), and the Source-of-Truth content graph to Business (not Pro). Docs

NEW - 31.07.2026#

Fixed#

  • The auto-generated TL;DR block now replaces the opening paragraph it was taken from, instead of repeating the same sentence directly below itself. GEO

NEW - 28.07.2026#

Added#

  • You can now see whether each visit actually succeeded — visits, outcomes, dead-end pages and exit pages are reconstructed from your existing events, with crawler traffic and inflated read time filtered out. Analytics
  • The SEO/GEO tab now shows your real Google Search Console positions, including which queries are worth improving, with no OAuth or domain verification needed on a *.docsbook.io subdomain. SEO
  • Analytics can now chart AI Visits as one line per crawler, so you can see which AI assistants read your docs and how that changes over time. Analytics

Fixed#

  • Answers in the docs chat now cite the pages they came from. Citations were previously empty on every answer, so readers had no way to jump to the source. AI Chat
  • Visitors, page views, top pages, referrers and events now exclude crawler traffic, which was up to 93% of pageviews on some sites. AI Visits remains the one card that reports bot volume. Analytics

NEW - 27.07.2026#

Added#

  • Correct a machine translation by editing its text directly, instead of re-uploading the whole page. Translations

NEW - 24.07.2026#

Changed#

  • Business plan price corrected to $159/month everywhere — pricing page, FAQ, and machine-readable /pricing.md and /llms.txt now agree with the actual checkout price. Pricing
  • MCP tool count claims corrected to the real number across the site and /llms.txt. MCP
  • /llms.txt and the shared preview image now describe Docsbook's current positioning instead of an outdated tagline. SEO

Fixed#

  • /llms-full.txt no longer silently serves a "Failed to generate" stub when the docs source is unavailable — it now falls back to the same content as /llms.txt. SEO

NEW - 18.07.2026#

Changed#

  • SEO, GEO, and AEO optimization now apply to docs on every plan, no longer Pro-only. SEO

NEW - 14.07.2026#

Added#

  • Copy page menu card — independent toggles for each item in the Copy page dropdown (Skills.md URL, view as Markdown, and shortcuts for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code MCP). Content

Improved#

  • "Create docs from a website" now generates a foldered 8-page site (features, guides, use-cases, FAQ) instead of 5 flat pages — a stronger starting point and a real FAQ page for AI-answer citability. AI Chat

0.22.3 - 30.05.2026#

Fixed#

  • Fix SEO/GEO/AEO toggles showing "Active" in anonymous mode — toggle now rolls back and shows an inline error when unauthenticated

0.21.0 - 25.05.2026#

Added#

  • SEO / GEO / AEO admin cards with real functionality — admin tab renamed from "SEO" to "SEO / GEO" (key seo-geo) and split into three toggleable cards, each with a Learn more about … footer link. GEO toggle injects a TL;DR <aside class="tldr"> at the top of every page (from tldr: frontmatter or auto-extracted first paragraph), shows a visible Updated DD MMM YYYY <time> at the article end, and switches author in JSON-LD TechArticle to a full Person schema (frontmatter author/authorUrl or fallback to last git commit author). AEO toggle gates the existing FAQPage JSON-LD, auto-detects HowTo JSON-LD from ## How to … / ## Как … headings followed by numbered lists (src/utils/seo/extractHowTo.ts), and adds a speakable SpeakableSpecification to TechArticle for voice assistants. New MCP tools update_geo and update_aeo (PRO-gated) mirror update_seo. Markdown pipeline migrated from regex-strip to gray-matter for typed frontmatter (new src/utils/markdown/parseFrontmatter.ts); 4 call-sites refactored. New docs/content/features/geo.md and aeo.md document the behavior and authoring patterns; seo.md updated with cross-links. DB columns workspaces.geo_enabled and aeo_enabled (migration 0028_public_marvex.sql)

0.20.2 - 25.05.2026#

Added#

  • UTM parameters on all internal CTAs leading from /skills, /mcp, /docs (Preview banner), and the blog to the landing page — every /start and /connect link now carries utm_source (skills / mcp / preview / blog), utm_medium (nav / cta / banner), and utm_campaign (e.g. header_signup, mcp_start_free_top, preview_connect, post slug for blog). New src/utils/utm.ts helper (withUtm()) wires the landing Header/Footer via an optional utmSource prop, the two inline CTAs on /mcp, and the PreviewConnectBanner on workspace pages. Blog post CTAs (docusaurus_vs_docsbook, mintlify_vs_docsbook, gitbook_vs_docsbook, ai_search_documentation, documentation_seo_guide, how_to_host_docs_from_github, why_documentation_matters) now tag their conversions per post. The landing page itself stays UTM-free so internal scroll-to-CTAs aren't mis-attributed

0.20.1 - 25.05.2026#

Changed#

  • Landing page positioning rewritten for AI crawlers — ChatGPT and Perplexity were describing Docsbook as a plain GitBook/Mintlify/Docusaurus alternative, missing the entire AI-Native layer. Hero H1 changed from "The AI Knowledge Platform" to "Docs from GitHub. For humans and AI agents." with concrete subtitle naming MCP, llms.txt, and 15 languages. New full-width "Built for AI agents" bento card with terminal mock (claude mcp add), MCP tool grid (doc_outline, doc_search_text, read_doc_sections, …) and client logos (Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Cline). New "AI Agents" social-proof tab with CTA to /mcp. metadata.title, metadata.description, JSON-LD SoftwareApplication.featureList, and FAQPage rewritten to surface MCP server, llms.txt, Source of Truth graph, Skills catalog, and updated pricing ($150 lifetime PRO / $59/mo PRO+) so AI search engines cite the current product correctly

0.20.0 - 25.05.2026#

Added#

  • SEO content hub — 20 new long-tail GEO/AEO blog posts in docs/blog/ targeting AI search citation (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) and high-intent developer queries. Covers comparisons (Docusaurus vs Docsbook 2026, AI docs platform comparison, free hosting comparison, docs as code vs managed), AI infrastructure (llms.txt complete guide, JSON-LD for documentation, MCP server for documentation, docs-skills for AI agents, how to get docs cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity citations for docs, multi-language documentation SEO, AI chat build vs buy), migrations (GitBook → Docsbook, Docusaurus → Docsbook), and practical guides (custom domain how-to, API documentation best practices 2026, documentation analytics, README → docs site, why README-only projects need a docs site, best docs platforms for startups 2026). docs/blog/README.md restructured into five sections: Foundations, SEO & AI search (GEO/AEO), AI features, Comparisons & migration, Practical guides

0.18.0 - 24.05.2026#

Added#

  • Devices, Browsers and AI Visits analytics — new row of cards under Pages/Referrers in the Analytics tab. First card has tabs for Devices (Mobile/Desktop/Tablet) and Browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, Yandex…) with favicon icons. Second card lists AI crawler visits (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bingbot, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, CCBot, Bytespider, MistralAI-User and 12+ more) grouped by provider so you can see exactly which AI agents read your docs
  • Install snippets for 8 AI clients on /mcp — interactive selector with tabs for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Windsurf, Cline, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot (VS Code), and ChatGPT; each one shows its own command or config (bash/JSON/TOML) with filename and optional install steps
  • New opinion blog post /blog/notion-for-docs-engineering-lessons — first-person engineering essay on why Notion stops working as a docs system once docs leave the building (SEO surface vs internal wiki, version control drift, multilingual coupling, AI crawler discoverability, performance budget, export lock-in, wiki-vs-docs permission split) with a soft Docsbook pitch in the closing section; written for SEO ("notion for documentation") + outreach + objection handling
  • Month-1 transparency Twitter thread draft at marketing/twitter-threads/2026-05-month-1-transparency.md — 11-tweet build-in-public post (genre reference: @levelsio / @marc_louvion) covering hook with revenue, three things that worked (lifetime PRO, MCP server, llms.txt auto-generation), three that didn't (cold email, paid ads, feature bloat), AI chat numbers, and what changes in month 2; placeholders for MRR/lifetime revenue/conversion, character counts inline, posting checklist included
  • Twitter teaser thread for Product Hunt launch at marketing/twitter/ph-teaser-thread.md — 9-tweet building-in-public thread (D-10 hook + 7 building-in-public tweets covering Anonymous MCP, llms.txt auto-discovery, TOON format, Docusaurus alternatives guide, attribution tracking, sitelinks JSON-LD, skills install UX + CTA), each tweet ≤280 chars, character counts inline, posting notes with UTM campaign ph-teaser-twitter

0.17.3 - 23.05.2026#

Added#

  • llms.txt now includes a full MCP Server section with connect instructions, tool list, and discovery notes

0.15.0 - 22.05.2026#

Added#

  • llms-full.txt endpoint with complete product brief for AI crawlers
  • Explicit allow rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended in robots.txt
  • New SEO Optimization page in docs explaining automatic meta tags, JSON-LD, static pages, sitemap, canonical URLs, hreflang, and llms.txt — with compounding ROI timeline

Improved#

  • FAQPage schema expanded to 9 Q&A pairs with detailed AI-citable answers
  • llms.txt now serves full product brief — pricing, features, audience, competitors
  • llms.txt fallback content replaced with full product brief

0.12.0 - 17.05.2026#

Added#

  • /llms.txt endpoint so AI crawlers can discover and understand your docs

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