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Browse and edit pages, manage media, inspect content models, and watch the validation report through Accent Author's HTMX-native admin shell.

Sign in with a bearer token, hold a session through an HttpOnly cookie, and rotate the secret without rewriting config.yaml.

Every admin.* configuration key, the JSONL audit log format, how concurrent-edit conflicts are resolved, and how the shell behaves on mobile.

Browse and upload media, rename assets with automatic reference rewriting, delete with used-by checks, and create, move, and delete pages with collision and dependency guards.

Opt in or out of the admin across releases, upgrade safely from a pre-admin binary, and patch baked-in vendor assets through a hotfix overlay without rebuilding.

Three editor modes, inline field validation, live preview, save with mtime-based conflict detection, and a server-enforced guard for frozen versioned content.

A tour of every screen the admin shell ships -- dashboard, pages list and tree, page new, editor, media library and detail, models, validation report, and settings.

Common admin failure modes -- short tokens, 404 routes, login mismatches, and the Core+ license requirement -- and how to resolve each.

A fixed four-state publishing machine with contextual transition buttons, a validation gate on publish, per-model review requirements, and a read-only Publisher role.

Extend Accent CMS with sandboxed WebAssembly Component-Model plugins for hooks, filters, shortcodes, custom routes, media processing, and diagram renderers.

Learn how to build dynamic pages with MiniJinja templates, filters, functions, and content features.

Create beautiful custom themes with templates, assets, and CSS frameworks.

Run a budgeted, human-in-the-loop LLM agent over your own site content from the command line.

Run a budgeted, human-in-the-loop LLM agent over your own site content from the command line.

Use AI assistants to query your Accent CMS content via Model Context Protocol.

Expose your content as JSON endpoints for headless CMS usage.

Sign in with a bearer token, hold a session through an HttpOnly cookie, and rotate the secret without rewriting config.yaml.

Restrict access to your site using HTTP Basic Authentication and IP allowlists for preview and staging deployments.

Install Accent CMS, start the dev server, and edit your first page in the admin -- end to end in under five minutes.

Add content hashes to asset filenames for CDN-friendly cache busting and Subresource Integrity (SRI).

Compute SHA hashes of files or strings for cache busting, Subresource Integrity (SRI), and content-addressed identifiers.

Inject build-time and runtime configuration from environment variables into your templates.

Generate a static HTML site and deploy to any hosting provider.

Write themes that work across development, production serving, and static builds without changes.

Serve assets from a CDN, proxy web fonts privately, and coordinate cache purges.

Complete reference for all Accent CMS commands, flags, and environment variables.

Run a budgeted, human-in-the-loop LLM agent over your own site content from the command line.

Use the accent plugin CLI to list, inspect, install, and remove plugins, and rely on hot reload and graceful error handling during development.

Use accent package to turn a plugin, theme, or starter template into a publishable archive, a SHA-256, and a registry manifest.

Install plugins and themes, and scaffold starter templates, from the signed Accent CMS ecosystem registry.

Define content collections with filtering and sorting, paginate results, and create named page relationships.

Declare a component's attributes in a manifest, author it with tag syntax, and get validation, defaults, and escaping for free.

Build a hero, a call to action, and a teaser grid as declared components, each backed by a Jinja template in your theme.

Every admin.* configuration key, the JSONL audit log format, how concurrent-edit conflicts are resolved, and how the shell behaves on mobile.

Complete reference for all config.yaml fields with types, defaults, and descriptions.

The full config.yaml reference for the plugin system, with every option annotated, plus pointers to related guides.

Attach additional content directories at specific points in your site's URL tree using filesystem mounts.

Persist user-generated content (comments, form submissions, votes) with the file-based data store and access it in templates.

Configure the built-in SMTP service for plugin email sending and core notifications.

Inject build-time and runtime configuration from environment variables into your templates.

Disable markdown rendering per page, combine with iframes, and expose raw markdown source to visitors via .md URLs.

Control what your server can do in production with developer, publisher, and author roles.

Restrict access to your site using HTTP Basic Authentication and IP allowlists for preview and staging deployments.

Attach additional content directories at specific points in your site's URL tree using filesystem mounts.

Choose between two content models -- media-rich pages with folders or lightweight documentation with plain files -- and mix them freely in the same site.

Define content schemas with typed fields, validation rules, and defaults using YAML model files.

A markdown file is the page. No wrapper folder, no required frontmatter -- titles come from headings. Best for documentation, wikis, and serving an existing repository as-is.

A directory is the page. An index file carries the content, and everything beside it -- images, modules, child pages -- belongs to that page. Best for media-rich sites and composable landing pages.

Folder pages and file pages coexist in the same content tree. Use folders where assets matter and files where they do not -- the storage model is invisible downstream.

Serve the same site in several languages using filename suffixes -- the default language keeps its plain URLs, translations are served under language prefixes, and templates get a ready-made translation list for building a language switcher.

How a page's location and frontmatter bind it to a document model, and which frontmatter fields a model may govern.

Point Accent at any folder of markdown -- a project's docs, a notes directory, a repository root -- and it serves immediately, with no restructuring and no frontmatter.

Sass/SCSS compilation, utility CSS generation, and CSS post-processing -- no external build tools required.

Solutions for common issues, error messages, and debugging techniques.

Add content hashes to asset filenames for CDN-friendly cache busting and Subresource Integrity (SRI).

Serve assets from a CDN, proxy web fonts privately, and coordinate cache purges.

Choose a deployment strategy for your Accent CMS site.

Deploy content from a git repository with automatic fetch and branch tracking.

Run Accent CMS as a production server with reverse proxy and process management.

Control what your server can do in production with developer, publisher, and author roles.

Generate a static HTML site and deploy to any hosting provider.

Write themes that work across development, production serving, and static builds without changes.

Confirm a downloaded Accent CMS binary is authentic and untampered before you run it in production.

Create beautiful custom themes with templates, assets, and CSS frameworks.

A complete walkthrough for building an Accent CMS plugin in Rust (cargo-component) or JavaScript (jco) -- scaffold, code, build, install, and verify.

Render text-based diagrams as inline SVG straight from your markdown.

Render Mermaid (and other) diagrams from Jinja templates and frontmatter using the diagram() template function.

Use accent package to turn a plugin, theme, or starter template into a publishable archive, a SHA-256, and a registry manifest.

Three editor modes, inline field validation, live preview, save with mtime-based conflict detection, and a server-enforced guard for frozen versioned content.

Add a working contact form to your site with CSRF protection and email forwarding.

Configure the built-in SMTP service for plugin email sending and core notifications.

Extend Accent CMS with sandboxed WebAssembly Component-Model plugins for hooks, filters, shortcodes, custom routes, media processing, and diagram renderers.

Toggle the markdown extensions -- smart punctuation, definition lists, superscript/subscript, admonitions, and math expressions.

Configure and use markdown extensions including wiki links, math, admonitions, definition lists, and more.

Solutions for common issues, error messages, and debugging techniques.

Expose your content as JSON endpoints for headless CMS usage.

Add instant client-side search to your site with zero external dependencies.

Transform data with filters and generate dynamic content with functions like now(), media(), recent_documents(), and debug().

Learn how to build dynamic pages with MiniJinja templates, filters, functions, and content features.

The day-to-day markdown syntax -- headings, text styles, links, lists, code blocks, blockquotes, and tables.

Enhance the contact form with inline validation and fetch-based submission using the islands architecture.

Add a working contact form to your site with CSRF protection and email forwarding.

The YAML metadata block at the top of every page, the fields it can carry, and using the lead in templates.

Transform data with filters and generate dynamic content with functions like now(), media(), recent_documents(), and debug().

Learn how to build dynamic pages with MiniJinja templates, filters, functions, and content features.

Choose between two content models -- media-rich pages with folders or lightweight documentation with plain files -- and mix them freely in the same site.

Deploy content from a git repository with automatic fetch and branch tracking.

Expose your content as JSON endpoints for headless CMS usage.

Access page hierarchy, breadcrumbs, siblings, taxonomy, computed metadata, and auto-excerpts in templates.

Install plugins and themes, and scaffold starter templates, from the signed Accent CMS ecosystem registry.

Serve the same site in several languages using filename suffixes -- the default language keeps its plain URLs, translations are served under language prefixes, and templates get a ready-made translation list for building a language switcher.

Work with page media assets, image processing, responsive images, thumbnails, and video embedding in templates.

Serve assets from a CDN, proxy web fonts privately, and coordinate cache purges.

Run a budgeted, human-in-the-loop LLM agent over your own site content from the command line.

Connect Accent CMS to AI assistants and programmatic clients.

Use AI assistants to query your Accent CMS content via Model Context Protocol.

Add isolated pockets of client-side interactivity to server-rendered pages while preserving Accent's zero-JS-by-default philosophy.

Serve the same site in several languages using filename suffixes -- the default language keeps its plain URLs, translations are served under language prefixes, and templates get a ready-made translation list for building a language switcher.

Enhance the contact form with inline validation and fetch-based submission using the islands architecture.

Choose the right hydration strategy for each island based on its role, urgency, and position on the page.

Add isolated pockets of client-side interactivity to server-rendered pages while preserving Accent's zero-JS-by-default philosophy.

Add isolated pockets of client-side interactivity to server-rendered pages while preserving Accent's zero-JS-by-default philosophy.

Complete reference of all template filters, tests, functions, and syntax constructs available in Accent CMS templates.

Build a hero, a call to action, and a teaser grid as declared components, each backed by a Jinja template in your theme.

Serve the same site in several languages using filename suffixes -- the default language keeps its plain URLs, translations are served under language prefixes, and templates get a ready-made translation list for building a language switcher.

The day-to-day markdown syntax -- headings, text styles, links, lists, code blocks, blockquotes, and tables.

Toggle the markdown extensions -- smart punctuation, definition lists, superscript/subscript, admonitions, and math expressions.

Declare a component's attributes in a manifest, author it with tag syntax, and get validation, defaults, and escaping for free.

Render text-based diagrams as inline SVG straight from your markdown.

The YAML metadata block at the top of every page, the fields it can carry, and using the lead in templates.

Configure and use markdown extensions including wiki links, math, admonitions, definition lists, and more.

A comprehensive guide to writing content with CommonMark markdown.

Complete reference of every markdown construct supported by Accent CMS, with syntax examples and expected HTML output.

Disable markdown rendering per page, combine with iframes, and expose raw markdown source to visitors via .md URLs.

How markdown becomes HTML through an event-based pipeline, the built-in processors, pipeline metadata, and heading anchors for deep linking.

Square-bracket shortcodes are gone. Declared components replace them, and `accent migrate shortcodes` rewrites your content.

Complete reference for every MCP tool, resource, parameter, and configuration field.

Use AI assistants to query your Accent CMS content via Model Context Protocol.

Browse and upload media, rename assets with automatic reference rewriting, delete with used-by checks, and create, move, and delete pages with collision and dependency guards.

The on_media_discover and on_media_process hooks let plugins enrich media metadata during content scanning and transform images after processing.

Work with page media assets, image processing, responsive images, thumbnails, and video embedding in templates.

Render text-based diagrams as inline SVG straight from your markdown.

Render Mermaid (and other) diagrams from Jinja templates and frontmatter using the diagram() template function.

How plugins are laid out on disk and how the plugin.toml file declares a plugin's name, version, and the hooks, filters, shortcodes, routes, and configuration it provides.

Opt in or out of the admin across releases, upgrade safely from a pre-admin binary, and patch baked-in vendor assets through a hotfix overlay without rebuilding.

The base MiniJinja language Accent runs - variables, expressions, control flow, inheritance, macros, whitespace control, and auto-escaping - plus the exact engine version and features Accent ships.

Define content schemas with typed fields, validation rules, and defaults using YAML model files.

How a page's location and frontmatter bind it to a document model, and which frontmatter fields a model may govern.

Compose a single page from multiple content sections using modular subdirectories with independent frontmatter.

Attach additional content directories at specific points in your site's URL tree using filesystem mounts.

Open Graph, Twitter Cards, build-safe canonical links, and the open meta map -- every page shareable by default with zero per-page authoring.

Deploy content from a git repository with automatic fetch and branch tracking.

A markdown file is the page. No wrapper folder, no required frontmatter -- titles come from headings. Best for documentation, wikis, and serving an existing repository as-is.

A directory is the page. An index file carries the content, and everything beside it -- images, modules, child pages -- belongs to that page. Best for media-rich sites and composable landing pages.

Folder pages and file pages coexist in the same content tree. Use folders where assets matter and files where they do not -- the storage model is invisible downstream.

How a page's location and frontmatter bind it to a document model, and which frontmatter fields a model may govern.

Point Accent at any folder of markdown -- a project's docs, a notes directory, a repository root -- and it serves immediately, with no restructuring and no frontmatter.

Access page hierarchy, breadcrumbs, siblings, taxonomy, computed metadata, and auto-excerpts in templates.

Define content collections with filtering and sorting, paginate results, and create named page relationships.

Choose the right hydration strategy for each island based on its role, urgency, and position on the page.

Add content hashes to asset filenames for CDN-friendly cache busting and Subresource Integrity (SRI).

Compute SHA hashes of files or strings for cache busting, Subresource Integrity (SRI), and content-addressed identifiers.

Choose the right hydration strategy for each island based on its role, urgency, and position on the page.

The full config.yaml reference for the plugin system, with every option annotated, plus pointers to related guides.

Add a working contact form to your site with CSRF protection and email forwarding.

Persist user-generated content (comments, form submissions, votes) with the file-based data store and access it in templates.

Configure the built-in SMTP service for plugin email sending and core notifications.

Use the accent plugin CLI to list, inspect, install, and remove plugins, and rely on hot reload and graceful error handling during development.

The on_media_discover and on_media_process hooks let plugins enrich media metadata during content scanning and transform images after processing.

How the plugin sandbox works -- structural capabilities, per-call metering (fuel, epoch, and a memory cap), API version checks, scoped filesystem access, and the outbound-HTTP allowlist.

How plugins are laid out on disk and how the plugin.toml file declares a plugin's name, version, and the hooks, filters, shortcodes, routes, and configuration it provides.

Extend Accent CMS with sandboxed WebAssembly Component-Model plugins for hooks, filters, shortcodes, custom routes, media processing, and diagram renderers.

Use accent package to turn a plugin, theme, or starter template into a publishable archive, a SHA-256, and a registry manifest.

Install plugins and themes, and scaffold starter templates, from the signed Accent CMS ecosystem registry.

Plugins implement typed WIT worlds. This page covers the worlds for every surface, the structural capability model, and the data types that cross the host/plugin boundary.

A complete walkthrough for building an Accent CMS plugin in Rust (cargo-component) or JavaScript (jco) -- scaffold, code, build, install, and verify.

Serve assets from a CDN, proxy web fonts privately, and coordinate cache purges.

Connect Accent CMS to AI assistants and programmatic clients.

Complete reference for every MCP tool, resource, parameter, and configuration field.

Use AI assistants to query your Accent CMS content via Model Context Protocol.

Choose a deployment strategy for your Accent CMS site.

Run Accent CMS as a production server with reverse proxy and process management.

Enhance the contact form with inline validation and fetch-based submission using the islands architecture.

Choose the right hydration strategy for each island based on its role, urgency, and position on the page.

Plugins implement typed WIT worlds. This page covers the worlds for every surface, the structural capability model, and the data types that cross the host/plugin boundary.

Control page visibility with draft status, scheduled publishing, and automatic archiving.

Browse and edit pages, manage media, inspect content models, and watch the validation report through Accent Author's HTMX-native admin shell.

Complete reference for all Accent CMS commands, flags, and environment variables.

Complete reference for all config.yaml fields with types, defaults, and descriptions.

Complete reference of all template filters, tests, functions, and syntax constructs available in Accent CMS templates.

Configure and use markdown extensions including wiki links, math, admonitions, definition lists, and more.

A comprehensive guide to writing content with CommonMark markdown.

Complete reference of every markdown construct supported by Accent CMS, with syntax examples and expected HTML output.

Complete reference for every MCP tool, resource, parameter, and configuration field.

Complete reference documentation for every command, configuration field, syntax construct, and API endpoint in Accent CMS.

How markdown becomes HTML through an event-based pipeline, the built-in processors, pipeline metadata, and heading anchors for deep linking.

Sass/SCSS compilation, utility CSS generation, and CSS post-processing -- no external build tools required.

A tour of every screen the admin shell ships -- dashboard, pages list and tree, page new, editor, media library and detail, models, validation report, and settings.

Add instant client-side search to your site with zero external dependencies.

Compute SHA hashes of files or strings for cache busting, Subresource Integrity (SRI), and content-addressed identifiers.

How the plugin sandbox works -- structural capabilities, per-call metering (fuel, epoch, and a memory cap), API version checks, scoped filesystem access, and the outbound-HTTP allowlist.

Control what your server can do in production with developer, publisher, and author roles.

Restrict access to your site using HTTP Basic Authentication and IP allowlists for preview and staging deployments.

Confirm a downloaded Accent CMS binary is authentic and untampered before you run it in production.

Open Graph, Twitter Cards, build-safe canonical links, and the open meta map -- every page shareable by default with zero per-page authoring.

Run Accent CMS as a production server with reverse proxy and process management.

Square-bracket shortcodes are gone. Declared components replace them, and `accent migrate shortcodes` rewrites your content.

Add a working contact form to your site with CSRF protection and email forwarding.

Configure the built-in SMTP service for plugin email sending and core notifications.

Open Graph, Twitter Cards, build-safe canonical links, and the open meta map -- every page shareable by default with zero per-page authoring.

Restrict access to your site using HTTP Basic Authentication and IP allowlists for preview and staging deployments.

Add content hashes to asset filenames for CDN-friendly cache busting and Subresource Integrity (SRI).

Generate a static HTML site and deploy to any hosting provider.

Define multiple named content regions within a single markdown file for multi-region page layouts.

Sass/SCSS compilation, utility CSS generation, and CSS post-processing -- no external build tools required.

Confirm a downloaded Accent CMS binary is authentic and untampered before you run it in production.

Render text-based diagrams as inline SVG straight from your markdown.

The base MiniJinja language Accent runs - variables, expressions, control flow, inheritance, macros, whitespace control, and auto-escaping - plus the exact engine version and features Accent ships.

Persist user-generated content (comments, form submissions, votes) with the file-based data store and access it in templates.

Install plugins and themes, and scaffold starter templates, from the signed Accent CMS ecosystem registry.

Define content collections with filtering and sorting, paginate results, and create named page relationships.

Compute SHA hashes of files or strings for cache busting, Subresource Integrity (SRI), and content-addressed identifiers.

Render Mermaid (and other) diagrams from Jinja templates and frontmatter using the diagram() template function.

Inject build-time and runtime configuration from environment variables into your templates.

Transform data with filters and generate dynamic content with functions like now(), media(), recent_documents(), and debug().

Complete reference of all template filters, tests, functions, and syntax constructs available in Accent CMS templates.

Work with page media assets, image processing, responsive images, thumbnails, and video embedding in templates.

Compose a single page from multiple content sections using modular subdirectories with independent frontmatter.

Access page hierarchy, breadcrumbs, siblings, taxonomy, computed metadata, and auto-excerpts in templates.

Open Graph, Twitter Cards, build-safe canonical links, and the open meta map -- every page shareable by default with zero per-page authoring.

Define multiple named content regions within a single markdown file for multi-region page layouts.

The base MiniJinja language Accent runs - variables, expressions, control flow, inheritance, macros, whitespace control, and auto-escaping - plus the exact engine version and features Accent ships.

Learn how to build dynamic pages with MiniJinja templates, filters, functions, and content features.

Build a hero, a call to action, and a teaser grid as declared components, each backed by a Jinja template in your theme.

Use accent package to turn a plugin, theme, or starter template into a publishable archive, a SHA-256, and a registry manifest.

Install plugins and themes, and scaffold starter templates, from the signed Accent CMS ecosystem registry.

Write themes that work across development, production serving, and static builds without changes.

Add isolated pockets of client-side interactivity to server-rendered pages while preserving Accent's zero-JS-by-default philosophy.

Sass/SCSS compilation, utility CSS generation, and CSS post-processing -- no external build tools required.

Create beautiful custom themes with templates, assets, and CSS frameworks.

Common admin failure modes -- short tokens, 404 routes, login mismatches, and the Core+ license requirement -- and how to resolve each.

Solutions for common issues, error messages, and debugging techniques.

Install Accent CMS on Windows, serve your first site, and learn what works differently from Linux and macOS.

Install Accent CMS, start the dev server, and edit your first page in the admin -- end to end in under five minutes.

Build a hero, a call to action, and a teaser grid as declared components, each backed by a Jinja template in your theme.

Define content schemas with typed fields, validation rules, and defaults using YAML model files.

Work with page media assets, image processing, responsive images, thumbnails, and video embedding in templates.

Extend Accent CMS with sandboxed WebAssembly Component-Model plugins for hooks, filters, shortcodes, custom routes, media processing, and diagram renderers.

Install Accent CMS on Windows, serve your first site, and learn what works differently from Linux and macOS.

Plugins implement typed WIT worlds. This page covers the worlds for every surface, the structural capability model, and the data types that cross the host/plugin boundary.

Control page visibility with draft status, scheduled publishing, and automatic archiving.

A fixed four-state publishing machine with contextual transition buttons, a validation gate on publish, per-model review requirements, and a read-only Publisher role.