Pinax

Catalog

The curated list of docs sites Pinax knows by name, plus how to refresh and override it.

pinax add <name> resolves through a small built-in catalog. Today that’s 15 entries - Stripe, React, Next.js, Convex, Anthropic, OpenAI, Supabase, Tailwind, FastAPI, Django, Go stdlib, Kubernetes, Vercel, Modal, MCP. The full list with tags lives at /catalog.

Anything containing ://, a ., or a / is still treated as a URL, so your existing scripts keep working:

pinax add https://docs.convex.dev
pinax add stripe                          # same end result

Listing entries

pinax catalog list

Prints the catalog the CLI is currently using - name, base URL, tags, one per line. Use it when you forget the exact slug.

Refreshing

The CLI ships with a built-in copy compiled in. To pull the latest version from GitHub:

pinax catalog refresh

This fetches internal/catalog/catalog.json from main and caches it under ~/.pinax/catalog.json. From then on pinax add <name> consults the cache first, then falls back to the compiled-in copy.

Custom or forked catalogs

Point refresh at a different URL with PINAX_CATALOG_URL:

PINAX_CATALOG_URL=https://intra.example.com/pinax-catalog.json \
  pinax catalog refresh

Useful for private docs hubs at work, or for testing a catalog change in a fork before opening a PR.

Shape of a catalog entry

{
  "version": "2026.06.25",
  "entries": {
    "stripe": {
      "displayName": "Stripe",
      "url": "https://docs.stripe.com",
      "tags": ["payments", "backend"],
    },
  },
}

Optional fields: llmsTxt to pin a specific manifest URL, platform to declare a known doc engine (Mintlify, Docusaurus…), excludes to filter out path prefixes during crawl.

Want a docs site added?

Open a request on GitHub. We review them per release and ship updates alongside the binary.

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