Antora Live

Antora Live is a planned product: a database-backed working layer for concurrent AsciiDoc editing, with publish back into Antora’s static generate pipeline.

It is not a rewrite of Antora core and not the same package as page-edit (bake-time VCS View | Edit links).

Why a separate product

Antora is a batch catalog compiler. Includes, xrefs, nav, aliases, and many extensions resolve at generate time into static HTML. A Confluence-style multiplayer experience needs a different runtime for drafts and presence — then a bridge to git + antora generate for production truth.

Canonical short write-up for PRs

Live docs on the org hub (also xrefable as docs:ROOT:live-docs.adoc when building the hub).

Locked model

  • Publish / generate — git content sources remain the source of truth for public static sites and the Facto stack (Lunr, Kroki, page-context, site-nav-tree, aliases).

  • Authoring — LibSQL/Turso holds drafts, CRDT operations, presence, and (later) permissions.

  • Editor — AsciiDoc source plus live preview first; concurrent merges happen on source text, not published HTML.

  • Bridge — export commits or PRs into content repos; preview reuses antora-serve and antora-incremental.

Read next

  • Design — problem, non-goals, pipeline tiers, extensions

  • Data model — Antora coordinates in the DB

  • Phases — P0 design filing through P4 fidelity