Show HN: Hold My Docs – a self-hosted wiki that stores pages in Git

Hold My Docs (HMD) runs as a single Go binary and keeps your content as Markdown in an ordinary Git repository. Every save is a commit, so your docs have real history and can sync to a remote you already use.

Hold My Docs is an early-stage project. Expect rough edges and breaking changes. Keep backups and test upgrades before relying on it as your only source for important documentation.

Every save is a Git commit, and the wiki can push to and pull from a remote you configure.

Read-only mode clones a public docs repository without a Git token, so you can browse it and pull updates.

Namespaces give each area of the wiki its own visibility, navigation, appearance and page-creation defaults.

The Markdown editor has a preview, wiki-links, backlinks, Mermaid diagrams, attachments, history and revert, and full-text search covers every page.

With an operator-supplied Apache Tika Server, HMD also searches PDF and Office attachments locally, combining keyword and semantic search.

People sign in with local accounts or OIDC single sign-on; access scopes and personal access tokens limit what each user or tool can do.

An MCP server lets authorised agents read and write ordinary pages, with optional attachment search limited to chosen namespaces.

Static export publishes a namespace as a site that runs without HMD.

Quick start

Docker Compose

export HMD_ADMIN_USER=admin export HMD_ADMIN_PASSWORD='use-a-unique-password-of-at-least-12-characters' docker compose up -d curl -f http://127.0.0.1:8080/_/ready

Open http://localhost:8080 and sign in with the bootstrap credentials. Remove the bootstrap environment variables after the first successful start.

The Compose file starts a local-only instance bound to loopback. To sync to a Git remote, create ./git_token.txt and uncomment the HMD_GIT_* variables and the git_token secret. For document search, uncomment HMD_DOCUMENT_SEARCH_TIKA_URL and run with docker compose --profile documents up. Keep Tika private; see the docs site for hardening and sandboxing.

go build -o hmd ./cmd/hmd HMD_SERVER_BIND=:8080
HMD_SERVER_REPO_DIR=./data/repo
HMD_APP_DIR=./data/app
HMD_ADMIN_USER=admin HMD_ADMIN_PASSWORD='use-a-unique-password-of-at-least-12-characters'
./hmd

Keep HMD_APP_DIR on local disk (not NFS); HMD_SERVER_REPO_DIR can be on network storage.

The HMD docs site covers installation, configuration, operations, MCP, and development.

Parts of HMD are developed with AI coding assistants and several models. The maintainer reviews, corrects, and tests all changes and is responsible for the result.