Every built site ships with search out of the box: the magnifier in the header opens a query field, and results appear in a dropdown as you type. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to run: the index is a static file built with the site, and the search executes entirely in the reader's browser.

What gets found

The index covers every published page:

• Titles, with double weight: a page whose title matches ranks above a page that only mentions the term in passing.
• Body text, as readable prose: excerpts in the dropdown come from the actual page content, with the matched words highlighted.
• Tags from frontmatter: a query matching a tag finds the page even when the word never appears in the text.
• Keywords from frontmatter: words a page should be findable by without showing them. Unlike a tag, a keyword draws no chip, gets no archive page, and takes no URL segment.
• Landing page sections: badges, headings, and card titles of landing pages are searchable like any other content.

Matching is case-insensitive and prefix-aware: typing deploy also finds deployment. The dropdown shows the top ten results.

Keeping a page out of search

Write hidden: true on the page's entry in the navigation tree. The page is still built and still reachable at its own URL, but it is announced nowhere: not in the sidebar, not in the default search results, not in the tag and category archives, llms.txt, or sitemap.xml. That is useful for a page meant to be reached by a direct link only. See Navigation.

hidden belongs to the tree entry, not to the page's frontmatter: one language may hide a page the others announce, and a page has no place to say that.

Unpublished pages - any status other than final - are never built at all, so the question of indexing them does not arise.

Scale

The index is a single JSON file containing the site's text, downloaded once when the reader first searches. This is a deliberate simplicity trade-off that serves documentation sites comfortably into the hundreds of pages; the search itself adds no load anywhere but the reader's browser tab.