Public Docs

Public docs let readers access published workspace content without signing in. A workspace serves anonymous readers only when its access mode is Public (set in Admin > Settings > Publishing); the Internal and Private modes are covered in Workspaces.

Platform subdomain

Each organization gets a ContextOwl docs host. Use it when you do not need a custom domain yet.

https://{assigned-subdomain}.contextowl.co

The ContextOwl product docs live at:

https://docs.contextowl.co

Developer docs live at:

https://developer.contextowl.co

Custom domains

Open Admin > Settings > Organization to add a domain like docs.example.com. ContextOwl gives you a DNS TXT value. After verification, the domain can serve your public docs.

Sitemap and robots.txt

Public docs include crawler surfaces:

• /sitemap.xml
• /robots.txt

Private, locked, encrypted, archived, and unpublished pages are excluded.

Search

Press Ctrl/Cmd + K to open search. It covers the articles visible to the current visitor, so public readers only search public content. Results show a snippet with matched terms highlighted and a % match score. Use the TEXT / SEMANTIC toggle (or press Alt+R) to rank results by exact text or by meaning; semantic ranking needs an embeddings provider and otherwise falls back to text.

Reader tools

Every published page gives readers a few ways to take the content with them:

• COPY copies the page as Markdown.
• View as Markdown and View llms.txt open the machine-readable versions.
• On public pages, Open in Claude and Open in ChatGPT hand the assistant the page URL so a reader can ask questions about it.
• PREVIOUS and NEXT move through the sidebar order, and the breadcrumb shows where the page sits.