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?
update protocol documentation for realtime to include new filters for pg
changes, select for pg changes and the new opt in system message
Closes DOCS-1057
Contributes to DOCS-1052
## I have read the
[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
file.
YES
## Problem
We have hundreds of MDX lint warnings in our docs going against style
best practices.
## Solution
Remove and replace in context the following:
- PostgreSQL. There was only one. There was concern about exceptions,
but I found none.
- Just
- Quickly
- Actually
### What changed
Edits follow the [Google developer documentation style
guide](https://developers.google.com/style): concise, direct, active
voice. The flagged words were removed when the sentence still read well,
or replaced when meaning needed to be preserved.
### Common patterns
| Flagged word | Approach | Example |
|---|---|---|
| **just** (filler) | Removed | "you just installed" → "you installed" |
| **just** (limiting) | **only** | "just one row" → "only one row" |
| **just like** | **like** / **the same as** | "function just like
regular users" → "function like regular users" |
| **not just** | **not only** | "not just errors" → "not only errors" |
| **quickly** (performance) | **efficiently** or removed | "find rows
quickly" → "find rows efficiently" |
| **quickly** (time) | **soon** / **rapidly** / removed | "expires too
quickly" → "expires too soon" |
| **actually** (filler) | Removed | "actually execute" → "execute"; "is
actually the most common" → "is the most common" |
## Tophatting
1. See the diff.
2. See that content continues to make sense in context.
3. Locally, `cd apps/docs` and run `pnpm run lint:mdx`.
4. Search for "just," "actually," "quickly", and "PostgreSQL" and see
there are 0 warnings.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Documentation**
* Updated wording across quickstarts, guides, and troubleshooting
articles for grammar, clarity, and consistent step-by-step phrasing.
* Clarified key concepts including Row Level Security policy evaluation
across Supabase products, deferred foreign key constraint behavior, and
when `EXPLAIN ANALYZE` executes queries (and related side effects).
* Refined several troubleshooting instructions and added guidance to cap
log payload size to reduce billed Logs Ingest volume.
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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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## 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?
Adds details about error handling in the protocol and what users can
expect when handling them in client libs
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Documentation**
* Expanded Realtime protocol "Error handling": describes four error
delivery paths, client lifecycle and recovery behaviors, and which
errors close or preserve channels.
* Clarifies join rejection parsing and retry/backoff guidance for join
error codes, plus special-case join reasons.
* Details channel-level system errors, Postgres subscription
degraded-state and ID-consistency rules, broadcast/presence error
shapes, in-band access_token refresh, and reconnection sequencing.
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* 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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* update postgres CDC message
* add a note on including receiving old records
* prettify code
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Miranda Limonczenko
