Apache Magpie — Website

Landing page and documentation hub for Apache Magpie, an AI assistant that helps open-source maintainers handle the repetitive parts of running a project — triage, mentoring, drafting fixes, and security-report handling — so they can focus on the work that needs a human.

Status: Apache Top-Level Project. Project source lives at apache/magpie; this repo holds the public website.

Stack

Layer	Tool
Framework	Astro 6 (static output)
UI	React 19 + Tailwind CSS 4
Animations	Magic UI (Particles, BorderBeam, BlurFade, TextAnimate, ShimmerButton) via `motion`
Icons	lucide-react + inline SVG for brand marks
Docs	Astro content collections, markdown synced from apache/magpie/docs

Zero runtime dependency on closed-source design tooling. All components are owned in-tree.

Local development

npm install
npm run sync-docs    # one-time fetch of markdown from apache/magpie
npm run dev          # http://localhost:4321

Always start the dev server with npm run dev — it runs scripts/dev.sh, which sets ASTRO_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 before launching astro dev. Without that, Astro tries to write to its telemetry config dir (e.g. ~/Library/Preferences/astro) and the dev server fails to start in sandboxed environments. Pass extra flags through, e.g. npm run dev -- --port 3000.

The prebuild hook runs sync-docs automatically, so npm run build always pulls a fresh copy of docs before generating the static site.

Available commands

Command	Purpose
`npm run dev`	Dev server with HMR (telemetry disabled via `scripts/dev.sh`)
`npm run sync-docs`	Clone `apache/magpie` (sparse, `docs/` + `images/`) into `src/content/docs/` and `public/docs-assets/`
`npm run build`	Static build to `dist/` (runs sync-docs first)
`npm run preview`	Serve the built site locally
`npm run astro`	Astro CLI passthrough

Environment variables (optional)

Var	Default	Purpose
`MAGPIE_DOCS_REPO`	`https://github.com/apache/magpie.git`	Source repo for markdown
`MAGPIE_DOCS_BRANCH`	`main`	Branch to sync from

Project structure

website/
├── scripts/
│   └── sync-docs.sh             # sparse-clone docs/ + images/ from source repo
├── src/
│   ├── components/
│   │   ├── Badge/               # Subframe-derived primitives (owned)
│   │   ├── Button/
│   │   ├── IconButton/
│   │   ├── landing/             # LP + SiteHeader/SiteFooter
│   │   └── ui/                  # Magic UI / shadcn primitives
│   ├── content/
│   │   └── docs/                # synced markdown (gitignored)
│   ├── content.config.ts        # docs collection schema
│   ├── layouts/
│   │   ├── BaseLayout.astro
│   │   └── DocsLayout.astro
│   ├── lib/utils.ts             # cn() helper
│   ├── pages/
│   │   ├── index.astro          # /
│   │   └── docs/
│   │       ├── index.astro      # /docs
│   │       └── [...slug].astro  # /docs/<any>
│   ├── styles/global.css
│   └── theme.css                # design tokens (brand, neutral, text sizes)
├── public/                       # static assets (logos, favicons, /docs-assets)
└── astro.config.mjs

Docs pipeline

The website is decoupled from the docs source. The markdown lives in apache/magpie/docs; this repo fetches it at build time and renders it through Astro content collections.

apache/magpie/docs/*.md
        │
        ▼  scripts/sync-docs.sh (sparse clone)
src/content/docs/*.md
        │
        ▼  Astro content collection
dist/docs/**/*.html   (one static page per markdown file)

Image references inside markdown (../../images/foo.png) are rewritten to /docs-assets/foo.png during sync so they resolve against public/docs-assets/.

CI

GitHub Actions workflow .github/workflows/build.yml runs on every push and PR to main:

Install dependencies
Sync docs from the source repo
astro check (warn-only)
astro build
On main: copy .asf.yaml into dist/ and force-push the build to the publish branch

Deployment

The site is published by ASF infrastructure, not GitHub Pages. On every push to main, CI builds the static site and force-pushes dist/ (an orphan, single-commit history) to the publish branch. The root .asf.yaml — carried into that branch — tells ASF infra to serve it:

publish:
  whoami: publish

ASF infra serves the publish branch at the project's inferred hostname — magpie-site → magpie.apache.org (served at the apex root). The hostname must not be set explicitly via a hostname: field; asfyaml forbids naming your own $project.apache.org (“it has to be inferred to prevent abuse”), and doing so stops the site from publishing.

The site is built with base: '/' so all links and assets resolve against the apex domain. Set SITE_BASE / SITE_URL to preview under a subpath (e.g. GitHub Pages).

One-time infra setup (outside this repo): for a brand-new project, ASF Infra may still need to provision DNS/TLS for magpie.apache.org before the inferred hostname resolves.

Agent-assisted contribution (apache-magpie)

This repo adopts the apache/magpie framework via a snapshot mechanism, making its maintainer-facing agent skills available in harnesses such as Claude Code.

The framework is not vendored — it lives as a gitignored snapshot under .apache-magpie/, fetched on demand from the version pinned in the committed .apache-magpie.lock. The only framework artefact committed to this repo is the setup skill at .agents/skills/magpie-setup/; everything else is a gitignored symlink the setup skill wires up.

This site currently wires the framework's always-on setup-* (secure-agent setup, status, upstream-fix) and list-* (skill discovery) families. The opt-in families (pr-management, security, issue) are not installed; add them later by re-running /magpie-setup.

A fresh clone needs the snapshot populated before any framework skill is invocable. In your agent harness, run:

/magpie-setup

(or follow .agents/skills/magpie-setup/) to fetch the snapshot per the committed lock, scaffold the gitignored symlinks, and install the post-checkout hook that re-creates them on each worktree checkout.

Adopter-specific modifications to framework workflows live in .apache-magpie-overrides/ (committed) — never edit the snapshot directly. Framework changes go via PR to apache/magpie.

License

Apache License 2.0.