jonradoff/lightcms

LightCMS is a Go-powered content management system built for the AI era. It's simultaneously **AI-native** (semantic search, built-in Claude-powered chat widget, MCP server for agent control), **agentically controllable** (Claude Code and any MCP client can read, write, publish, and bulk-import content via 130 MCP tools), and **agentically updatable** (the codebase is clean, well-structured Go — coding agents can safely extend it). For teams that want a CMS that works with AI rather than around it.
What's New in v7.3 — SEO & AI
| Feature | Summary |
|---------|---------|
| **AI Traffic** | See which AI crawlers read your site (training vs. AI search vs. user-initiated fetches), what they read most, and how many visits ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Copilot send you. |
| **AI Crawler Policy** | Allow or block AI training, AI search and user fetches separately, with per-crawler overrides and an optional Content-Signal line, rendered into robots.txt. |
| **Markdown Copies** | Every page is also available as clean Markdown at / .md, linked from the page and from llms.txt, so agents can read it without the HTML. |
| **Richer Structured Data** | Authors, publisher with logo, breadcrumbs, FAQ markup, and modified dates that only move when the page content actually changes. |
| **RSS & Atom Feeds** | /feed.xml, /atom.xml and per-collection feeds with full content. |
| **Hide from Search & AI** | Per-page noindex that also removes the page from the sitemap, llms.txt, feeds and IndexNow. |
What's New in v7.2
| Feature | Summary |
|---------|---------|
| **IndexNow** | Published, edited, moved and deleted pages are pushed to Bing, Yandex and other IndexNow engines right away. Zero-config: each install generates its own key, verifies it owns its BASE_URL before submitting, and submits the whole site once on first activation. Status and history at Tools → IndexNow. |
| **CMS Agent** | Configurable email digests (via Resend) covering site health, traffic, review queue, agent activity and broken links, with optional AI commentary. |
What's New in v7.1
| Feature | Summary |
|---------|---------|
| **Ambient Copilot** | The copilot is a slide-in drawer on every admin page — floating 🤖 button, fullscreen toggle, ChatGPT-style searchable chat history, live typing indicator, and rendered tables. It edits, creates, publishes, and reads analytics and maintenance reports in plain language. |
| **Analytics Ranges** | 60/90-day presets and custom date ranges across all analytics views. |
| **Fast AI-Crawler Endpoints** | llms.txt serves in ~1 second on large sites (projected queries), and homepages emit schema.org WebSite JSON-LD with SearchAction. |
| **Version Visibility** | The admin sidebar shows the running version. |
What's New in v7.0
| Feature | Summary |
|---------|---------|
| **Agent Sandbox ("PRs for content")** | Agents work in an isolated fork with copy-on-write; humans review a per-field diff and merge. Live content is untouchable until merge. |
| **Agent Governance** | Scoped API keys, sandbox-only keys (server-enforced), per-session change ledger with one-call rollback, and per-version provenance (human vs agent, which session). |
| **Admin Copilot** | /cm/copilot — edit, create, and publish content in plain language, with RBAC and full audit logging. |
| **llms.txt + JSON-LD** | Auto-generated /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt for AI crawlers, schema.org structured data on every page. |
| **MCP for Readers** | Public read-only MCP endpoint at /mcp-public — visitors' agents can search and read the site natively. |
| **Local Embeddings** | LIGHTCMS_EMBEDDINGS_PROVIDER=ollama for fully self-hosted semantic search — no API credits. |
| **Self-Maintaining Sites** | Daily maintenance scans surface stale pages, missing meta, and broken links as an agent-ready work queue. |
What's New in v6.0
| Feature | Summary |
|---------|---------|
| **Content Approvals** | Contributors submit content for approval; editors/admins approve or reject from /cm/approvals. Rejection comments auto-post to the discussion thread. |
| **Contributor Role** | New RBAC role between Viewer and Editor. Can create content + upload assets (pending), post comments, and submit for approval — but cannot publish directly or manage system settings. |
| **Approval Workflows** | Configurable trigger-based workflows (contributor, folder path, template ID, or tag). Sequential or concurrent mode with configurable approver lists. |
| **Content Discussion** | Inline comment thread at the bottom of every edit page. @mention autocomplete, live badge count, admin delete. |