## Problem
Generated reference docs (`docs/reference/cli/*`,
`docs/reference/api/*`) contained raw placeholder and JSON syntax that
came straight from Go CLI help strings and swagger annotations. HTML
renderers treat the angle-bracket tokens (`<team-slug>`, `<uuid>`,
`<KEY>`, etc.) as unknown tags and drop them, so readers see
broken/half-missing text today. The same strings also break MDX parsing.
## Fix
Wrap the placeholder/JSON syntax in backticks **at the source** (Go help
strings and swagger annotation comments), then `make gen`. Rendered docs
now show the placeholders as inline code instead of dropping them.
### Source changes
| File | Placeholder wrapped | Surfaces in |
|------|--------------------|-------------|
| `codersdk/deployment.go` | `` `<organization-name>/<team-slug>` `` |
`cli/server.md`, `coder --help`, settings UI |
| `codersdk/deployment.go` | `` `CODER_AI_GATEWAY_PROVIDER_<N>_*` ``, ``
`CODER_AI_GATEWAY_PROVIDER_<N>_<KEY>` `` | `api/schemas.md` |
| `cli/tokens.go` | `` `<type>:<uuid>` `` | `cli/tokens_create.md`,
`coder --help` |
| `coderd/aitasks.go` | `` `owner:<…>` ``, `` `organization:<…>` ``, ``
`status:<status>` `` | `api/tasks.md` |
| `coderd/exp_chats.go` | `` `pr_status:<…>` `` and sibling filter
tokens | `api/chats.md` |
| `coderd/provisionerdaemons.go`, `coderd/provisionerjobs.go` | ``
`{'tag1':'value1','tag2':'value2'}` `` | `api/organizations.md`,
`api/provisioning.md` |
Everything else in the diff (`coderd/apidoc/*`, `docs/reference/**`,
`*.golden`, `site/src/api/typesGenerated.ts`) is `make gen` output.
## Reviewer notes (the "considered pass" from the ticket)
- **Product-visible:** this changes `coder server --help` and `coder
tokens create --help` output, and the `server-config.yaml` reference
comment. Backticks in terminal help are literal but read fine as
placeholder markers.
- **Settings UI:** the `deployment.go` `Description` also renders in the
deployment settings page. If that field is not Markdown-rendered,
literal backticks will show there. Happy to drop the `deployment.go`
change if you'd rather keep the UI text clean and fix `server.md`
another way.
- **Out of scope here:** `docs/reference/cli/agent-firewall.md`
(`<host>`/`<glob>`) is generated from the external
`github.com/coder/boundary` module, not this repo. It needs an upstream
fix + module bump; not included in this PR.
<details>
<summary>Implementation notes / decision log</summary>
- Scope taken from DOCS-551: source-level backtick pass for generated
reference docs only. Hand-written Markdown fixes are tracked separately
(companion ticket).
- Swagger `@Param` descriptions are Go comments, so the existing `\|`
pipe-escaping in the chats `q` filter is preserved inside the new
backticks (still required for the Markdown table cell to render `|`).
- Verified after `make gen`: generated docs render placeholders as code
spans, table pipes intact; `gofmt` clean; changed Go packages build; no
emdash/endash introduced.
- Deliberately left the `AIProviderConfig` type-level doc comment
untouched because it does not surface in any generated doc (kept the
diff to doc-feeding comments).
</details>
Linear: DOCS-551
---
_Opened by Coder Agents on behalf of @nickvigilante._
---
## Evidence: placeholders dropped on the live docs site
Verified **2026-07-14** against the live site (`coder.com/docs`, i.e.
`main`, pre-merge) by loading each affected page in headless Chrome and
reading the post-hydration DOM (confirmed identical in the raw page
payload). Each simple `<token>` placeholder is parsed as an **empty
custom HTML element**, so the browser renders nothing for it and the
placeholder text disappears from the page.
### What readers see today (before this PR)
| Page (live) | Source Markdown | Rendered on the live site |
|-------------|-----------------|---------------------------|
| [`cli/server`](https://coder.com/docs/reference/cli/server) — OAuth2
GitHub Allowed Teams | `Structured as: <organization-name>/<team-slug>.`
| `Structured as: /.` |
|
[`cli/tokens_create`](https://coder.com/docs/reference/cli/tokens_create)
— `--allow` | `Repeatable allow-list entry (<type>:<uuid>, e.g.
workspace:1234-...).` | `Repeatable allow-list entry (:, e.g.
workspace:1234-...).` |
| [`api/tasks`](https://coder.com/docs/reference/api/tasks) — `q` | `...
status:<status>` | `... status:` (nothing after the colon) |
| [`api/schemas`](https://coder.com/docs/reference/api/schemas) —
AIBridgeConfig (`anthropic`/`bedrock`/`openai`) |
`CODER_AI_GATEWAY_PROVIDER_<N>_*` | `CODER_AI_GATEWAY_PROVIDER__*` |
| [`api/schemas`](https://coder.com/docs/reference/api/schemas) —
AIBridgeConfig (`providers`) | `CODER_AI_GATEWAY_PROVIDER_<N>_<KEY>` |
`CODER_AI_GATEWAY_PROVIDER__` |
[`api/chats`](https://coder.com/docs/reference/api/chats) (`q`) drops
five tokens the same way — `title:<substring>`, `diff_url:<url>`,
`pr:<number>`, `pr_title:<text>`, and the trailing `title:<value>`. The
live parameter description reads (note the dangling `title:`,
`diff_url:`, `pr:`, `pr_title:`):
```text
Search query. Supports title: (case-insensitive, quote multi-word values), archived:bool, has_unread:bool, pr_status:<draft|open|merged|closed> as repeated or comma-separated values, source:<created_by_me|shared_with_me>, diff_url: (quote values containing colons), pr: (exact PR number match), repo:<owner/repo> (case-insensitive substring match against git remote origin or URL), pr_title: (case-insensitive PR title substring). Bare terms are not supported; use title: for title filtering.
```
<details>
<summary>Raw rendered DOM from the live site (headless Chrome,
post-hydration)</summary>
```html
<!-- reference/cli/server -->
Structured as: <organization-name>/<team-slug>.</team-slug></organization-name>
<!-- reference/cli/tokens_create -->
Repeatable allow-list entry (<type>:<uuid>, e.g. workspace:1234-...).</uuid></type>
<!-- reference/api/tasks : only status:<status> drops; the /-containing tokens are escaped and survive -->
Search query for filtering tasks. Supports: owner:<username/uuid/me>, organization:<org-name/uuid>, status:<status></status>
<!-- reference/api/schemas : anthropic / bedrock / openai rows -->
Deprecated: Use Providers with indexed CODER_AI_GATEWAY_PROVIDER_<n>_* env vars instead.</n>
<!-- reference/api/schemas : providers row -->
Providers holds provider instances populated from CODER_AI_GATEWAY_PROVIDER_<n>_<key> env vars and/or the deprecated LegacyOpenAI/LegacyAnthropic/LegacyBedrock fields above.</key></n>
```
The parser auto-inserts closing tags
(`</team-slug></organization-name>`) and lowercases the tag name (`<N>`
becomes `<n>`), leaving `__` where `<N>_` used to be. Every wrapped
placeholder renders correctly as inline code on the [docs preview for
this
branch](https://coder.com/docs/@vigilante%2Fdocs-551-backtick-placeholder-syntax-in-generated-reference-docs-cli/reference/cli/server).
</details>
### Accuracy note — cases that do *not* drop on live
These render fine today, so they are **not** evidence of dropping (the
PR still wraps them for consistency / MDX-safety):
-
[`api/organizations`](https://coder.com/docs/reference/api/organizations)
and
[`api/provisioning`](https://coder.com/docs/reference/api/provisioning):
`{'tag1':'value1','tag2':'value2'}` renders verbatim — curly braces are
not an HTML tag.
- Tokens containing `/` or `|` are escaped by the renderer and stay
visible (as literal `<...>`): `<username/uuid/me>`, `<org-name/uuid>`,
`<owner/repo>`, `<draft|open|merged|closed>`,
`<created_by_me|shared_with_me>`. Backticks still improve their
readability, but they were never dropped.
The slices package provides type-safe generic replacements for the
old typed sort convenience functions. The codebase already uses
slices.Sort in 43 call sites; this finishes the migration for the
remaining 29.
- sort.Strings(x) -> slices.Sort(x)
- sort.Float64s(x) -> slices.Sort(x)
- sort.StringsAreSorted(x) -> slices.IsSorted(x)
## Summary
Moves expired token filtering from client-side to server-side by adding
an `include_expired` parameter to the `GetAPIKeysByLoginType` and
`GetAPIKeysByUserID` database queries. This is more efficient for large
deployments with many expired/short-lived tokens.
## Changes
- Add `include_expired` parameter to SQL queries using `OR`
short-circuit
- Add `include_expired` query parameter to `GET
/users/{user}/keys/tokens`
- Add `IncludeExpired` field to `codersdk.TokensFilter`
- Remove client-side filtering from CLI `tokens list` command
- Add `TestTokensFilterExpired` test
Fixescoder/internal#1357
## Summary
> NOTE: Calling this out as a breaking change in case existing consumers
of the CLI depend on being able to see expired tokens OR being able to
delete tokens immediately.
Updates the `coder tokens rm` command to immediately expire a token by
ID, preserving the token record for audit trail purposes. Tokens can
still be deleted by passing `--delete`.
## Problem
During an incident on dev.coder.com, operators needed to urgently expire
an API key that was stuck in a hot loop. The only way to do this was via
direct database access:
```sql
UPDATE api_keys SET expires_at = NOW() WHERE id = '...';
```
This is not ideal for operators who may not have direct DB access or
want to avoid manual SQL.
## Solution
This PR adds:
- **API endpoint**: `PUT /api/v2/users/{user}/keys/{keyid}/expire` -
Sets the token's `expires_at` to now
- **SDK method**: `ExpireAPIKey(ctx, userID, keyID)`
- **Updates CLI**: `coder tokens rm <name|id|token>` now _expires_ by
default. You can still delete by passing the `--delete` flag. The `coder
tokens list` command now also hides expired tokens by default. You can
`--include-expired` if needed to include them.
- **Audit logging**: The expire action is logged with old and new key
states
## Test plan
- Tests cover: owner expiring own token, admin expiring other user's
token, non-admin cannot expire other's token, 404 for non-existent token
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This changes makes it so that we output the empty string for Format
when there is no data. It turns out there are many places in the code
where we have such handling, but in a way that would break the JSON
formatter (since we'd output nothing on stdout or text rather than
`[]`/`null`).
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Add support for scoped API tokens in CLI
This PR adds CLI support for creating and viewing API tokens with scopes and allow lists. It includes:
- New `--scope` and `--allow` flags for the `tokens create` command
- A new `tokens view` command to display detailed information about a token
- Updated table columns in `tokens list` to show scopes and allow list entries
- Updated help text and examples
These changes enable users to create tokens with limited permissions through the CLI, similar to the existing functionality in the web UI.
Refactors the CLI to create the `*codersdk.Client` in the handlers. This is groundwork for changing the `rootCmd.InitClient()` to use the new `ClientOption`s.
It also improves variable locality, scoping the Client to the handler. This makes misuse less likely and reduces the memory allocations to just the command being executed, rather than allocating a Client for every command regardless of whether it is executed.
The experimental functions in `golang.org/x/exp/slices` are now
available in the standard library since Go 1.21.
Reference: https://go.dev/doc/go1.21#slices
Signed-off-by: Eng Zer Jun <engzerjun@gmail.com>
Since API keys can be created without a name, and we already perform the
deletion by ID, it makes sense to be able to delete tokens with *just*
the ID.
This PR is a proposal to improve the situation described in #14750
For some precise commands - we would like to be able to use durations
bigger than hours, minutes..
This PR extends the Duration proposed by Go with :
- `d` - a day or 24hours.
- `y` - a year or 365 days.
I also removed the default value for lifetime and instead fetch the
maxLifetime value from codersdk - so by default if no value set we use
the value defined in the config.
* chore: add /v2 to import module path
go mod requires semantic versioning with versions greater than 1.x
This was a mechanical update by running:
```
go install github.com/marwan-at-work/mod/cmd/mod@latest
mod upgrade
```
Migrate generated files to import /v2
* Fix gen
* add tokens switch
* reorged TokensPage
* using Trans component for description
* using Trans component on DeleteDialog
* add owner col
* simplify hook return
* lint
* type for response
* added flag for name
* fixed auth
* lint, prettier, tests
* added unique index for login type token
* remove tokens by name
* better check for unique constraint
* docs
* test: Fix dbfake to insert token name
* fix doc tests
* Update cli/tokens.go
Co-authored-by: Steven Masley <Emyrk@users.noreply.github.com>
* Update coderd/database/migrations/000102_add_apikey_name.down.sql
Co-authored-by: Steven Masley <Emyrk@users.noreply.github.com>
* add more specificity to IsUniqueViolation check
* fix tests
* Fix AutorizeAllEndpoints
* rename migration
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Co-authored-by: Steven Masley <Emyrk@users.noreply.github.com>
* add tokens switch
* reorged TokensPage
* using Trans component for description
* using Trans component on DeleteDialog
* add owner col
* simplify hook return
* lint
* type for response
* PR feedback
* fix lint
* added query for tokens by user id
* updated query args
* adding owner col
* fix request params
* update-golden-files
* added owners col to ls table output
* added ttoken translations
* prettier
* format table according to arg
* using slice.Contains
* refactored token state
* cleanup
* chore: rename `AgentConn` to `WorkspaceAgentConn`
The codersdk was becoming bloated with consts for the workspace
agent that made no sense to a reader. `Tailnet*` is an example
of these consts.
* chore: remove `Get` prefix from *Client functions
* chore: remove `BypassRatelimits` option in `codersdk.Client`
It feels wrong to have this as a direct option because it's so infrequently
needed by API callers. It's better to directly modify headers in the two
places that we actually use it.
* Merge `appearance.go` and `buildinfo.go` into `deployment.go`
* Merge `experiments.go` and `features.go` into `deployment.go`
* Fix `make gen` referencing old type names
* Merge `error.go` into `client.go`
`codersdk.Response` lived in `error.go`, which is wrong.
* chore: refactor workspace agent functions into agentsdk
It was odd conflating the codersdk that clients should use
with functions that only the agent should use. This separates
them into two SDKs that are closely coupled, but separate.
* Merge `insights.go` into `deployment.go`
* Merge `organizationmember.go` into `organizations.go`
* Merge `quota.go` into `workspaces.go`
* Rename `sse.go` to `serversentevents.go`
* Rename `codersdk.WorkspaceAppHostResponse` to `codersdk.AppHostResponse`
* Format `.vscode/settings.json`
* Fix outdated naming in `api.ts`
* Fix app host response
* Fix unsupported type
* Fix imported type
* reword: chore: add CI to dogfood template
* use hardcoded URL
* use consistent name for tokens
* chore: add docs for template change management
* add an example
* fix case
Nick Vigilante