chore(docs) Retire supa-mdx-lint (#50602)

Closes
[DOCS-1289](https://linear.app/supabase/issue/DOCS-1289/get-the-linter-to-fix-what-it-flags-or-retirereplace-the-linter)

Stacked on #50600, which points contributors at the authoring skills.
Merge that one first.

## Problem

Contributors experienced friction with the linter. They felt nickle and
dimed for tiny nits and felt detracted from the work itself. PRs would
become noisy with tiny one-word suggestions.

Additionally, our homegrown linter is not very intelligent, causing
frequent overrides.

## Solution

This removes the linter entirely in favor of directing contributors to
use SKILLS instead.

The removal entails...

- **CI.** Delete the three `docs_lint` workflows: the PR check, the
external-PR comment companion, and the nightly `--fix` bot. Drop the
stale `zizmor.yml` ignore entry for the deleted workflow.
- **Tooling.** Delete `supa-mdx-lint.config.toml` and the 14 rule files.
Drop the `lint:mdx` script and the `@supabase/supa-mdx-lint` dependency
from docs, learn, and ui-library, and regenerate the lockfile.
- **Content.** Remove the 181 directives. A separate commit carries
Prettier's reformatting of the tables and blank lines those comments had
suppressed, so the deletion commit stays readable. No prose changes.
- **Style guide.** The word list states each rule directly instead of
describing what the linter flagged. Every term survives, including the
phrase groups that mirrored `Rule004ExcludeWords`.
- **Skills.** `write-the-docs`, `edit-the-docs`, and `review-the-docs`
drop `pnpm lint:mdx` from their self-review commands and check the word
list directly. `ask-the-docs`'s CI reference drops both workflows.

## Manual testing

1. Run `git grep -i supa-mdx-lint -- . ':!pnpm-lock.yaml'`. No matches.
2. Run `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --lockfile-only`. It passes, so
the lockfile matches the three trimmed manifests.
3. Run `git diff master...HEAD --name-only --diff-filter=ACMR | grep -E
'\.(md|mdx)$' | xargs npx prettier --config prettier.config.mjs
--check`. All changed markdown passes.
4. Open the [reformatted filter
table](https://docs-git-docs-retire-mdx-linter-supabase.vercel.app/docs/guides/observability/logs#filter-events)
on the preview and compare it with
[production](https://supabase.com/docs/guides/observability/logs#filter-events).
The table renders the same.

<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Documentation guidance now uses manual prose and terminology review
with the shared word list.
* Clarified storage configuration and common Realtime channel mistakes.
* Improved table formatting, text wrapping, and selected reference
links.
  * Updated documentation authoring and review guidance.

* **Chores**
* Retired automated MDX linting from workflows and local validation
commands.
* Removed lint-suppression markers throughout documentation without
changing instructions.
  * Added targeted documentation review guidance for pull requests.
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name: docs_lint_comment_external
# This is a continuation of ./docs-lint-v2.yml, to write comments on external
# PRs.
#
# SECURITY:
# This workflow runs with write permissions, in the context of code from an
# external PR. This is safe because no external code is executed. The
# stringified Markdown output from the linter (downloaded as an artifact) is
# directly written as the body of a PR comment.
on:
workflow_run:
workflows: [docs_lint]
types:
- completed
permissions:
pull-requests: write
jobs:
comment_on_pr:
runs-on: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404
if: github.event.workflow_run.event == 'pull_request' && github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'failure'
steps:
- id: download_artifact
name: 'Download artifact'
uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9.0.0
with:
script: |
const artifacts = await github.rest.actions.listWorkflowRunArtifacts({
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
run_id: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}
});
const matchingArtifact = artifacts?.data?.artifacts?.find(
(artifact) => artifact.name == 'lint_results'
);
if (matchingArtifact) {
core.setOutput('contains_results', 'true')
const download = await github.rest.actions.downloadArtifact({
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
artifact_id: matchingArtifact.id,
archive_format: 'zip',
});
const fs = require('fs');
fs.writeFileSync('${{ github.workspace }}/lint_results.zip', Buffer.from(download.data));
}
- id: unzip_results
name: Unzip results file
if: steps.download_artifact.outputs.contains_results == 'true'
run: unzip lint_results.zip
- name: 'Comment on PR'
if: steps.download_artifact.outputs.contains_results == 'true'
uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9.0.0
with:
script: |
const fs = require('fs');
const prNumber = Number(fs.readFileSync('./pr_number.txt'));
const lintResults = fs.readFileSync('./lint_results.txt', 'utf8');
await github.rest.issues.createComment({
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
issue_number: prNumber,
body: lintResults
});
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name: '[Docs] Lint v2 (scheduled)'
on:
schedule:
- cron: '0 0 * * *'
workflow_dispatch:
env:
CARGO_NET_GIT_FETCH_WITH_CLI: true
permissions:
contents: write
pull-requests: write
jobs:
lint-all:
runs-on: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
with:
fetch-depth: 0
persist-credentials: true
sparse-checkout: |
supa-mdx-lint.config.toml
supa-mdx-lint
apps/docs/content
- name: cache cargo
id: cache-cargo
uses: actions/cache@0057852bfaa89a56745cba8c7296529d2fc39830 # v4.3.0
with:
path: |
~/.cargo/bin/
~/.cargo/registry/index/
~/.cargo/registry/cache/
~/.cargo/git/db/
key: da6838d8d6898f28ec9ab432353b2707db9df8f5
- name: install linter
if: steps.cache-cargo.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
run: cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/supabase-community/supa-mdx-lint --rev da6838d8d6898f28ec9ab432353b2707db9df8f5
- name: run linter
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
run: |
supa-mdx-lint apps/docs/content || {
echo "Linter failed, attempting to fix errors..."
git config --global user.name 'github-docs-bot'
git config --global user.email 'github-docs-bot@supabase.com'
BRANCH_NAME="bot/docs-lint-fixes"
EXISTING_BRANCH=$(git ls-remote --heads origin $BRANCH_NAME)
if [[ -n "$EXISTING_BRANCH" ]]; then
git push origin --delete $BRANCH_NAME
fi
git checkout -b $BRANCH_NAME
supa-mdx-lint apps/docs/content --fix || FIX_FAILED=1
git add .
git commit -m '[bot] fix lint errors' || true
git push origin $BRANCH_NAME
gh pr create --title '[bot] fix lint errors' --body 'This PR fixes lint errors in the documentation.' --head $BRANCH_NAME
if [ "${FIX_FAILED:-0}" -eq 1 ]; then
echo "Fix did not correct all errors."
exit 1
fi
}
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name: docs_lint
# Runs the docs linter on PRs that edit docs content.
# There are two branches of this workflow for internal and external PRs, due
# to the security design of GitHub Actions.
#
# Internal PRs:
# Have write permissions, so comments are written directly by reviewdog.
#
# External PRs:
# Have read-only permissions, so lint results are uploaded as an artifact, to
# be written to the PR in a subsequent workflow_run action that has write
# permissions. See ./docs/lint-v2-comment.yml.
#
# See https://securitylab.github.com/resources/github-actions-preventing-pwn-requests/
on:
pull_request:
env:
CARGO_NET_GIT_FETCH_WITH_CLI: true
permissions:
pull-requests: write
jobs:
supa-mdx-lint:
name: supa-mdx-lint
runs-on: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
with:
fetch-depth: 0
persist-credentials: false
sparse-checkout: |
supa-mdx-lint.config.toml
supa-mdx-lint
apps/docs/content
- uses: dorny/paths-filter@de90cc6fb38fc0963ad72b210f1f284cd68cea36 # v3.0.2
id: filter
with:
filters: |
docs:
- 'apps/docs/content/**'
- 'supa-mdx-lint/**'
- 'supa-mdx-lint.config.toml'
- name: cache cargo
id: cache-cargo
if: steps.filter.outputs.docs == 'true'
uses: actions/cache@8b402f58fbc84540c8b491a91e594a4576fec3d7 # v5.0.2
with:
path: |
~/.cargo/bin/
~/.cargo/registry/index/
~/.cargo/registry/cache/
~/.cargo/git/db/
key: da6838d8d6898f28ec9ab432353b2707db9df8f5
- name: install linter
if: steps.filter.outputs.docs == 'true' && steps.cache-cargo.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
run: cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/supabase-community/supa-mdx-lint --rev da6838d8d6898f28ec9ab432353b2707db9df8f5
- name: install reviewdog
if: steps.filter.outputs.docs == 'true'
uses: reviewdog/action-setup@3f401fe1d58fe77e10d665ab713057375e39b887 # v1.3.0
with:
reviewdog_version: v0.20.2
- name: run linter (internal)
if: steps.filter.outputs.docs == 'true' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository
env:
BASE_REF: ${{ github.base_ref }}
REVIEWDOG_GITHUB_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
run: |
set -o pipefail
git diff --name-only "origin/$BASE_REF" HEAD \
| { grep -E "^apps/docs/content/" || test $? = 1; } \
| xargs -r supa-mdx-lint --format rdf \
| reviewdog -f=rdjsonl -reporter=github-pr-review -tee
- id: external_lint
name: run linter (external)
if: steps.filter.outputs.docs == 'true' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name != github.repository
env:
BASE_REF: ${{ github.base_ref }}
PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
run: |
set -o pipefail
run_lints() {
git diff --name-only "origin/$BASE_REF" HEAD \
| { grep -E "^apps/docs/content/" || test $? = 1; } \
| xargs -rx -n 1000000000 supa-mdx-lint --format markdown
}
set +e
LINT_RESULTS=$(run_lints)
LINT_EXIT_CODE=$?
set -e
echo "LINT_EXIT_CODE=$LINT_EXIT_CODE" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
if [[ $LINT_EXIT_CODE -ne 0 ]]; then
mkdir -p ./__github_actions__pr
echo "${{ github.event.number }}" > ./__github_actions__pr/pr_number.txt
echo "$LINT_RESULTS" > ./__github_actions__pr/lint_results.txt
fi
- name: save results as artifact (external)
if: steps.filter.outputs.docs == 'true' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name != github.repository && steps.external_lint.outputs.LINT_EXIT_CODE != 0
uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02 # v4.6.2
with:
name: lint_results
path: __github_actions__pr/
- name: fail if linter fails (external)
if: steps.filter.outputs.docs == 'true' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name != github.repository && steps.external_lint.outputs.LINT_EXIT_CODE != 0
run: exit 1