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.
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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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## I have read the
[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
file.
YES
## What kind of change does this PR introduce?
This is a docs update. The shared architecture diagram and several docs
pages still described Kong as Supabase's API gateway, even though the
hosted platform has run Envoy since 2025. Both diagram variants are
rebuilt with real, accessible text — the originals rendered every label
as an outlined vector path with zero `<text>` elements — so the gateway
name can be kept current going forward, and the platform-facing prose
that named Kong directly is updated to Envoy.
Closes DOCS-1262.
## What is the current behavior?
- The architecture diagram (used on the Architecture overview, Auth
architecture, Self-hosting Docker, and Contributing guide pages) shows
"KONG / docs.konghq.com" as the gateway box
- The Architecture overview page has a "Kong (API gateway)" component
section
- The Auth architecture page states "Kong API gateway. This is shared
between all Supabase products."
- `README.md` and `apps/docs/public/humans.txt` credit Kong instead of
Envoy
## What is the new behavior?
- Rebuilt `supabase-architecture.svg` and
`supabase-architecture--light.svg` with real `<text>` elements; the
gateway box now reads "ENVOY / envoyproxy.io" with identical layout,
colors, and shadows otherwise
- Updated the diagram alt text and the "Kong (API gateway)" section (now
"Envoy (API gateway)", with the correct docs link, license, and
language) on the Architecture overview page
- Updated the "Kong API gateway" bullet and diagram alt text on the Auth
architecture page
- Updated the Kong credit to Envoy in `README.md` and
`apps/docs/public/humans.txt`
**Intentionally excluded:**
- Self-hosted Docker Compose pages (`docker.mdx`, `enable-mcp.mdx`,
`self-hosted-auth-keys.mdx`, `self-hosted-envoy.mdx`,
`self-hosted-functions.mdx`, `self-hosted-proxy-https.mdx`) — these
describe the self-hosted stack, which still defaults to Kong today and
is already owned by an open PR (#48153) that flips that default
- `i18n/README.*.md` (29 files) — translation risk without
native-speaker review; only the English `README.md` was updated
## Open questions
- [ ] #48153 merges and the self-hosted default actually flips to Envoy
— once it does, revisit the self-hosting Docker Compose pages excluded
from this PR and the self-hosting-analytics reference TODO
- [ ] Confirm whether all legacy platform instances have fully migrated
to Envoy — until then, this PR's wording says "Envoy" without claiming
Kong is gone everywhere (some legacy instances may still silently be on
Kong)
- [ ] Current Envoy response header names confirmed for the logs guide
TODO (`x-kong-proxy-latency` / `x-kong-upstream-latency`)
- [ ] i18n README translations (29 files) follow up separately with
native-speaker review
## Additional context
- Verification: rendered both new SVGs with `rsvg-convert` and visually
diffed against the originals — layout, spacing, colors, and shadows are
pixel-equivalent; only the top-box label text changed
| Check | Result |
| --- | --- |
| `rsvg-convert` render, dark variant | pass — diagram unchanged except
gateway label |
| `rsvg-convert` render, light variant | pass — diagram unchanged except
gateway label |
| Preview URL, Architecture overview | pass — 200 |
| Preview URL, Auth architecture | pass — 200 |
### Before & After
#### [Architecture
overview](https://supabase.com/docs/guides/getting-started/architecture)
| [Before
(production)](https://supabase.com/docs/guides/getting-started/architecture)
| [After (PR
preview)](https://docs-git-nikrichers-docs-1262-architecture-docs-84e339-supabase.vercel.app/docs/guides/getting-started/architecture)
|
| --- | --- |
|
|
|
#### [Auth
architecture](https://supabase.com/docs/guides/auth/architecture)
| [Before
(production)](https://supabase.com/docs/guides/auth/architecture) |
[After (PR
preview)](https://docs-git-nikrichers-docs-1262-architecture-docs-84e339-supabase.vercel.app/docs/guides/auth/architecture)
|
| --- | --- |
|
|
|
### Test plan
- [ ] Diagram renders correctly in both light and dark mode on the
preview
- [ ] "Envoy (API gateway)" section reads correctly on the Architecture
overview page
- [ ] Auth architecture bullet reads "Envoy API gateway"
- [ ] The two TODO-marked follow-ups (logs guide,
self-hosting-analytics) are acceptable to leave for later rather than
block this PR
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Co-authored-by: Nik Richers <nik@validmind.ai>
Co-authored-by: Miranda Limonczenko <miranda.limonczenko@supabase.io>
## I have read the
[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
file.
YES
## Problem
The Docs E2E link checker found broken links throughout docs, starting
with `phone-login.mdx` pointing to `/docs/guides/cli/config` (404).
Old links like `/docs/guides/cli/config` still work on the live site
because `supabase.com` has redirects set up for them, but these links
break on the docs preview site, which is what the E2E check tests
against. These issues look clean on the live site, and I didn't catch
them in my first pass because I was testing production instead of the
preview.
The E2E check only tests the ~20 pages a given PR happens to touch, so
fixing the pages it flagged kept exposing more of the same problem one
page at a time as each fix pulled in a new file. To stop chasing this
incrementally, I cross-referenced every `/docs/guides/*` and
`/docs/reference/*` redirect source in `apps/www/lib/redirects.js`
against actual usage across all of `apps/docs`, and verified each
candidate against the live preview.
## Solution
Rather than updating the Docs E2E link checker, this PR resolves the
links. **Why:** we own these docs, so keeping the links clean without
redirects is keeping the house maintained. See [Broken Window
Theory](https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-broken-window-theory/).
Updated every link still using an old path to point straight at the
current page instead of relying on a redirect. This covers old links
like:
- `/docs/guides/cli/config` →
`/docs/guides/local-development/cli/config`
- `/docs/guides/cli/getting-started` →
`/docs/guides/local-development/cli/getting-started`
- `/docs/guides/cli/local-development` →
`/docs/guides/local-development/database-migrations`
- `/docs/guides/cli/managing-environments` →
`/docs/guides/deployment/managing-environments`
- `/docs/guides/cli/seeding-your-database` →
`/docs/guides/local-development/seeding-your-database`
- bare `/docs/guides/cli` → `/docs/guides/local-development`
- `/docs/guides/platform/compute-add-ons` →
`/docs/guides/platform/compute-and-disk`
- `/docs/guides/platform/shared-responsibility-model` →
`/docs/guides/deployment/shared-responsibility-model`
- `/docs/guides/database` → `/docs/guides/database/overview`
- `/docs/reference/javascript`, `/docs/reference/dart`,
`/docs/reference/kotlin`, `/docs/reference/python`,
`/docs/reference/csharp` → their `/introduction` pages (the redirect's
own destination, `/start`, turned out to be dead even on production — a
separate bug in `redirects.js` I didn't touch here)
- and about 35 more of the same pattern, listed in the commit messages
Also fixed a handful of dead heading anchors found along the way (links
that resolve to the right page but point at a `#section` that got
renamed or moved), including the original `#bigquery` anchor and a few
in `connecting-to-postgres.mdx` where content moved to its own dedicated
page.
Left alone on purpose:
- `content/guides/cli.mdx` — this page has no route in the docs app at
all (no `app/guides/cli/` directory), so it 404s even in production
before the `www` redirect ever fires. Fixing its internal link wouldn't
change that; it needs an actual routing/content decision, not a link
fix.
- A few candidates that already resolve fine as-is (`pg_partman`, bare
`/docs/reference/api`, bare `/docs/reference/cli`) — confirmed via curl,
left untouched.
## Manual testing
1. Confirmed every new link target actually exists by checking the
destination file/page and matching heading anchors.
2. Cross-referenced every `/docs/guides/*` and `/docs/reference/*`
redirect source in `apps/www/lib/redirects.js` against real usage in
`apps/docs`, and curl-verified each old path (404) and new path (200)
against the live PR preview before fixing it.
3. Ran the Docs E2E link checker locally against changed pages.
4. Spot-checked the original broken link from CI
(`/docs/guides/cli/config`) to confirm it now points to a working page.
Contributes to DOCS-1052
## I have read the
[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
file.
YES
## What kind of change does this PR introduce?
Resolves MDX linting errors related to "simple" where it applies.
There was a couple cases that did not apply. For example, a product with
"Simple" in the name.
These changes are made in context, either by removing or using a more
descriptive synonym like "minimal" or "basic".
## Tophatting
1. Read each of the diffs.
2. See that the text still makes sense in context.
For extra due diligence, you can run `pnpm lint:mdx` locally and see the
'simple' errors that remain and whether they are worth addressing.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Documentation**
* Updated many guide, tutorial, and troubleshooting pages with clearer
“basic”/“minimal” wording across setup steps, local testing
instructions, security cautions, and RLS guidance.
* Refined headings, example descriptions, and inline comments for
consistency (including deployment, MCP, metrics API, and search/function
phrasing).
* Improved readability with small snippet formatting tweaks (whitespace
plus import/comment ordering) and added a self-hosting debugging note
for Envoy admin endpoints via a short-lived `curl` container.
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Co-authored-by: Chris Chinchilla <chris.ward@supabase.io>
Co-authored-by: Nik Richers <nrichers@gmail.com>
## I have read the
[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
file.
YES
## What kind of change does this PR introduce?
Updates verbiage throughout docs to use postgres over postgresql.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Documentation**
* Updated terminology throughout documentation, guides, and resources
for consistent product naming across all user-facing materials,
including page titles, descriptions, and reference documentation.
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## I have read the
[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
file.
YES
## What kind of change does this PR introduce?
New Go landing page for the upcoming Bolt webinar. This is where we will
direct customers who want to learn more to go to request a meeting.
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Co-authored-by: Alan Daniel <stylesshjs@gmail.com>
* fix: rewrite relative URLs when syncing to GitHub discussion
Relative URLs back to supabse.com won't work in GitHub discussions, so
rewrite them back to absolute URLs starting with https://supabase.com
* fix: replace all supabase urls with relative urls
* chore: add linting for relative urls
* chore: bump linter version
* Prettier
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Co-authored-by: Chris Chinchilla <chris.ward@supabase.io>
Miranda Limonczenko
