cr-create

GitBook Review Flow (direct API)

Run a documentation review loop against a GitBook space entirely through the GitBook REST API (https://api.gitbook.com/v1, hit with curl), so an engineer never has to leave Claude Code (plus Slack) to propose docs changes and get them reviewed. This is the authoring-side companion to cr-review (the reviewer side over the same API). Every action here is a plain HTTP call — there is no CLI and no helper script.

The same actions serve three purposes with no separate code paths:

• CR-creation demo — create a change request and push content (one existing page updated, one new page created).
• Notify/review demo — request reviewers, drop a Slack link, pull comments, fix, re-push, resolve.
• Real use — the identical actions against the user's own content.

Because the demo is just a scripted sequence of the real actions, it cannot show something that doesn't actually work. Keep it that way: never fake an output.

Auth and the gbapi helper

Every call is a Bearer-authenticated request to https://api.gitbook.com/v1. The token lives in GITBOOK_TOKEN in the repo-root .env (create one at https://app.gitbook.com/account/developer). Never print the token; never write it to a tracked file. If it's missing, prompt the user for it and write it to .env; don't invent one.

Define this shell helper once per session and use it for every call below. It loads the token from .env, sets the base URL and headers, and — critically for the "never fake output" rule — fails loudly on any non-2xx, printing the API's error body (curl --fail-with-body, curl ≥ 7.76 / stock on current macOS):

set -a; [ -f .env ] && . ./.env; set +a          # load GITBOOK_TOKEN (and SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL)
gbapi() {                                          # gbapi METHOD /path [extra curl args…]
  local method="$1" apipath="$2"; shift 2   # NB: not `path` — in zsh that is tied to $PATH
  curl -sS --fail-with-body -X "$method" \
    "https://api.gitbook.com/v1${apipath}" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${GITBOOK_TOKEN}" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" "$@"
}