# cr-create

Runs a GitBook documentation review loop from the terminal: open a change request, push pages, ask for reviewers, work through comments. Handy when you would rather not touch the web UI.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 619 installs · ★ 22
- Author: GitbookIO
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/cr-create/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/cr-create

## What it does

The skill walks through the whole GitBook workflow against the REST API at `https://api.gitbook.com/v1`. Every step is a plain HTTP call made with `curl`; there is no CLI and no helper script. It ships an endpoint map: identify the current user, list pages, fetch a page as markdown, open a change request, push content, request reviewers, pull comments, reply, resolve.

Content goes up in a single `POST /spaces/<space>/change-requests/<cr>/content` call carrying a `changes` array. For an existing page that is `update_page` — swap the document body, or change title, slug, icon. One catch: `document` accepts only `{"markdown":"…"}`, so the node tree returned by `GET …/page?format=document` will come back as a 422. Passing `document` also replaces the entire page, so fetch the current text first, edit it, then push.

You need a GitBook token in `GITBOOK_TOKEN` inside a repo-root `.env`. Grab one from your GitBook account settings and keep it out of tracked files. The `gbapi` helper runs `curl --fail-with-body`, which means curl 7.76 or newer. Skip that flag and API errors pass silently, leaving you thinking the call worked. Slack notifications are sent outside the GitBook API — that part is not an API operation.

## Requirements
- Works with: Slack

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook-skills --skill cr-create -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/cr-create/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/cr-create/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook-skills --skill cr-create -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/cr-create/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook-skills --skill cr-create -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/cr-create/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install GitbookIO/gitbook-skills cr-create
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/cr-create/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook-skills --skill cr-create -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook-skills --path skills/cr-create
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/cr-create/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook-skills --skill cr-create -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/cr-create/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- open a GitBook change request from the terminal
- push an edit to one page and add another in a single call
- request reviewers and post the link to Slack
- pull review comments and reply to each one
- resolve a comment once the fix is in

## Example prompts
- Open a GitBook change request and push an update to the `getting-started` page
- Request reviewers on that CR and drop the link in Slack
- Pull the open comments, fix them, and push again

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: cr-create
metadata:
  version: "1.0"
description: Drive an end-to-end GitBook docs review flow from Claude Code by calling the GitBook REST API directly with curl (no CLI) — create a change request, push content (update an existing page AND create a new page), request reviewers, notify Slack, then pull review comments back in, fix them, re-push, and resolve. This is the authoring-side companion to cr-review (the reviewer side over the same API). Use this whenever someone wants to run a "docs review in GitBook" loop from the terminal/agent against the raw API (curl/HTTP), mentions creating a change request via the API, pushing content into a CR, "pull in the latest comments and fix them," requesting review on docs, or showing engineers how to collaborate on GitBook docs from Claude + Slack without a CLI.
---

# GitBook Review Flow (direct API)

Run a documentation review loop against a GitBook space entirely through the
**GitBook REST API** (`https://api.gitbook.com/v1`, hit with `curl`), so an engineer
never has to leave Claude Code (plus Slack) to propose docs changes and get them
reviewed. This is the authoring-side companion to `cr-review` (the reviewer side over the
same API). Every action here is a plain HTTP call — there is no CLI and no helper script.

The same actions serve three purposes with no separate code paths:
- **CR-creation demo** — create a change request and push content (one existing page updated, one new page created).
- **Notify/review demo** — request reviewers, drop a Slack link, pull comments, fix, re-push, resolve.
- **Real use** — the identical actions against the user's own content.

Because the demo is just a scripted sequence of the real actions, it cannot show
something that doesn't actually work. Keep it that way: never fake an output.

## Auth and the `gbapi` helper

Every call is a Bearer-authenticated request to `https://api.gitbook.com/v1`. The token
lives in **`GITBOOK_TOKEN`** in the repo-root `.env` (create one at
https://app.gitbook.com/account/developer).
**Never print the token; never write it to a tracked file.** If it's missing, prompt the
user for it and write it to `.env`; don't invent one.

Define this shell helper once per session and use it for every call below. It loads the
token from `.env`, sets the base URL and headers, and — critically for the "never fake
output" rule — **fails loudly on any non-2xx, printing the API's error body** (`curl
--fail-with-body`, curl ≥ 7.76 / stock on current macOS):

```bash
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