The inspect report

manuscrio-pdf inspect prints a single JSON document to standard output and writes nothing else, so it pipes cleanly into jq or a pipeline step. It never fails because of what it finds; problems are reported as diagnostics.

The report is the source of the IDs that --edition and --manual accept, and it is the cheapest way to see what an export will contain before spending the render.

A complete example

{
  "framework": "docusaurus",
  "siteTitle": "Acme Device Documentation",
  "logo": "/portal/img/logo.svg",
  "editions": [
    {
      "id": "default:en:current",
      "manualId": "default:en:current",
      "pluginId": "default",
      "locale": "en",
      "version": "current",
      "title": "Acme Device Documentation",
      "pages": 2,
      "assignedPages": 2,
      "unlistedPages": [],
      "unassignedDocumentationSets": [],
      "sections": [
        {
          "id": "documentation",
          "manualId": "default:en:current/section/documentation",
          "title": "Documentation",
          "navbarHref": "/portal/docs/intro",
          "pages": 2,
          "sidebarRoots": [
            {
              "id": "device-guide",
              "manualId": "default:en:current/root/documentation/device-guide",
              "title": "Device Guide",
              "pages": 2
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "diagnostics": []
}

Top level

Field	Meaning
framework	The adapter that read this build — docusaurus, starlight, or mkdocs — whether detected or forced with --framework.
siteTitle	The site’s own title, used on covers when a manual has no better one.
logo	The brand logo’s URL as the Site Build wrote it. Empty when discovery found nothing usable, which means an export carries the Manuscrio wordmark unless you pass --logo. It is currently always empty for Starlight and MkDocs.
editions	Every plugin, locale, and version combination found.
diagnostics	What discovery noticed. See when an export fails.

Editions

Field	Meaning
id, manualId	The edition ID, plugin:locale:version. Pass it to --edition, and to --manual at edition scope.
pluginId, locale, version	The three parts of that ID, separately.
title	The edition’s title, which becomes the manual title and the PDF file name at edition scope.
pages	Distinct documentation routes listed by any of the edition’s sidebars. This is a count of source pages, not of PDF pages.
assignedPages	Distinct routes reachable under a navbar section. It is 0 for a site whose navigation has no section level, which is normal; where sections do exist, a gap between the two counts is an unattributed sidebar and is reported as a diagnostic.
unlistedPages	Routes rendered in the build that no sidebar links to. These are not exported.
unassignedDocumentationSets	Sidebar groups with no unambiguous navbar section, each with its own sidebarRoots.
sections	The navbar sections that carry documentation. Empty for a site that has none — always so for Starlight and MkDocs — which is not an error.

Sections and sidebar roots

Field	Meaning
id	The section or root ID as the site names it.
manualId	<edition>/section/<id> or <edition>/root/<owner>/<id>. This is the value --manual expects.
title	The manual title, and the PDF file name, at that scope.
navbarHref	Where the navbar entry points. Sections only.
pages	Documentation pages under that section or root. Distinct routes for a section; the root’s own page list for a root.
sidebarRoots	The top-level sidebar entries, each exportable on its own with --scope sidebar-root.

Diagnostics

Field	Meaning
code	A stable identifier, currently UNLISTED_PAGES or UNASSIGNED_DOCUMENTATION_SET.
message	A human-readable summary, including counts.
routes	The routes the diagnostic concerns.

Picking IDs out of it

The manualId at the level matching your --scope is the one to use:

manuscrio-pdf inspect ./build | jq -r '.editions[].sections[].manualId'

Read manual IDs and output file names before pinning any of them in a pipeline.