Mintlify API Documentation

Build developer documentation with Mintlify. Generates mint.json configs, MDX content pages, OpenAPI spec integration, interactive API playgrounds, and custom component layouts.

This skill helps you create beautiful developer documentation with Mintlify. It generates mint.json configuration with navigation and theming, MDX content pages with callouts and code blocks, integrates OpenAPI specs for auto-generated API reference, configures interactive API playgrounds, creates custom React components, sets up analytics and feedback collection, and implements llms.txt for AI discoverability. Used by Anthropic, Cursor, and Perplexity.

When to use

Use when building API documentation with Mintlify, creating developer portals, integrating OpenAPI specs, or setting up interactive API playgrounds for your product.

Examples

API docs portal

Create a complete API documentation site

Set up Mintlify docs for my SaaS API: generate reference pages from my OpenAPI spec, create getting started and authentication guides, add interactive playground, and configure custom branding

SDK quickstarts

Write multi-language SDK guides

Create Mintlify quickstart guides for my API in TypeScript, Python, and Go — with code snippets, environment setup, and first API call examples using tabbed code blocks