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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 import"
description: "Import issues from a JSONL file (newline-delimited JSON) into the database."
---
{/* AUTO-GENERATED: do not edit manually */}
Generated from `bd help --doc import`.
Import issues from a JSONL file (newline-delimited JSON) into the database.
If no file is specified, imports from the configured import.path under .beads/
(default: issues.jsonl). Use "-" to read from stdin. This is the incremental counterpart to
'bd export': new issues are created and existing issues are updated (upsert
semantics).
Memory records (lines with "_type":"memory") are automatically detected and
imported as persistent memories (equivalent to 'bd remember'). This makes
'bd export | bd import' a full round-trip for both issues and memories.
Each JSONL line should map to an issue. The importer accepts every field
'bd export' emits — see 'bd export' output for the canonical schema. Only
"title" is required; everything else is optional.
Common fields:
title Required. Short summary.
description Long-form body.
design, notes, Additional content sections.
acceptance_criteria
issue_type bug | feature | task | epic | chore | ...
priority 0-4 (0 = critical). 0 is preserved (no omitempty).
status open | in_progress | blocked | closed | ...
(rows with status "tombstone" are skipped)
assignee, owner, Ownership metadata.
created_by
labels Array of strings.
dependencies Array of &#123;issue_id, depends_on_id, type, ...&#125;.
comments Array of comment objects.
external_ref, Cross-system identifiers (e.g. "gh-9").
source_system
due_at, defer_until RFC3339 timestamps for scheduling.
metadata Arbitrary JSON object preserved verbatim.
Timestamps (created_at, updated_at, started_at, closed_at) are preserved
when present in the JSONL and otherwise filled in by the importer. The
legacy "wisp" boolean is accepted as an alias for "ephemeral".
By default a row only rewrites an existing local issue when its
updated_at is strictly newer. Older rows are skipped (reported as
stale_skipped_ids) and rows with the same updated_at keep every local
column — updated_at has second granularity, so a timestamp tie can be
two distinct same-second updates, and the local row wins the tie
(reported as tie_kept_local_ids; the row's labels/comments/dependencies
still merge). The guard is also enforced inside the upsert itself, so a
local update that lands while the import is running is preserved rather
than overwritten. Existing issues that the import did rewrite are listed
with a field-level summary (updated_issues), so local state changed by
an import is visible. To deliberately restore an older snapshot, pass
--allow-stale, which imports every row even when it overwrites newer
local state.
EXAMPLES:
bd import # Import from configured import.path
bd import backup.jsonl # Import from a specific file
bd import -i backup.jsonl # Legacy alias for a specific file
bd import - # Read JSONL from stdin
cat issues.jsonl | bd import - # Pipe JSONL from another tool
bd import --dry-run # Show what would be imported
bd import --dedup # Skip issues with duplicate titles
bd import --allow-stale old.jsonl # Restore an older snapshot (overwrites newer local rows)
bd import --json # Structured output with created and skipped IDs
```
bd import [file|-] [flags]
```
**Flags:**
```
--allow-stale Import rows even when older than the local issue (required to restore an older snapshot)
--dedup Skip lines whose title matches an existing open issue
--dry-run Show what would be imported without importing
-i, --input string Read JSONL from a specific file
```