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Chris Sells d2f87d50de docs(pipeline): pin the CLI docs to the released bd; repair main's broken CLI reference (#4876)
* docs(pipeline): pin the generated CLI docs to the released bd; repair main's CLI reference

The #4874 squash-merge raced the docs-autofix bot: the bot had pushed a
regeneration from main's source onto the PR branch, so the squash landed a
contradictory mix — the release-aligned hand-written docs plus a CLI
reference re-documenting unreleased commands and flags, with docs.json
referencing four pages (heartbeat, migrate-personal, reclaim, unclaim)
whose files do not exist. That broken nav fails the docsync guard on main
and on every branch cut from it. This restores the intended end state of
#4874 and lands the pin that prevents the race from recurring.

- Regenerate the CLI reference from a bd built from the v1.1.0 tag (CI's
  canonical pure-Go build), removing the unreleased commands/flags and
  fixing the dangling nav entries.
- docs/cli-docs.pin names the release tag; scripts/resolve-docs-bd.sh
  builds and caches a canonical pure-Go bd from that tag, fetching the tag
  first in shallow CI checkouts.
- generate-cli-docs.sh, check-doc-flags.sh, and check-cli-docs-drift.sh
  resolve bd through the pin and ignore a supplied binary while pinned
  (BD_DOCS_IGNORE_PIN=1 bypasses), so the drift gates and the autofix bot
  now enforce docs-match-release instead of docs-match-main.
- tools/docsmint detects the pre-overhaul Docusaurus staging layout that
  bd <= v1.1.0 emits and converts it to the generic form before its normal
  Mintlify transform (tested); removable once the pin reaches a release
  whose emitter writes build/cli-docs.
- check-doc-flags.sh: run without timeout(1) on macOS instead of failing
  Check 4.
- Decision record: engdocs/decisions/2026-07-17-docs-release-pin.md; the
  beads-docs skill §8 updated to match.

* lint: annotate gosec G705 false positive in the docsmint legacy bridge

Same class as the existing nav-splice annotation: a developer tool writing
repo Markdown, not a web-output sink.
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---
title: "bd bootstrap"
description: "Bootstrap sets up the beads database without destroying existing data."
---
{/* AUTO-GENERATED: do not edit manually */}
Generated from `bd help --doc bootstrap`.
Bootstrap sets up the beads database without destroying existing data.
Unlike 'bd init --force', bootstrap will never delete existing issues.
Bootstrap auto-detects the right action:
• If sync.remote is configured: clones from the remote
• If git origin has Dolt data (refs/dolt/data): clones from git and wires origin for future push/pull
• If .beads/backup/*.jsonl exists: restores from backup
• If .beads/issues.jsonl exists: imports from git-tracked JSONL
• If no database exists: creates a fresh one
• If database already exists: validates and reports status
This is the recommended command for:
• Setting up beads on a fresh clone
• Recovering after moving to a new machine
• Repairing a broken database configuration
Non-interactive mode (--non-interactive, --yes/-y, or BD_NON_INTERACTIVE=1):
Skips the confirmation prompt before executing the bootstrap plan.
Also auto-detected when stdin is not a terminal or CI=true is set.
Examples:
bd bootstrap # Auto-detect and set up
bd bootstrap --dry-run # Show what would be done
bd bootstrap --json # Output plan as JSON
bd bootstrap --yes # Skip confirmation prompt
```
bd bootstrap [flags]
```
**Flags:**
```
--dry-run Show what would be done without doing it
--non-interactive Alias for --yes
-y, --yes Skip confirmation prompts (for CI/automation)
```