> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://gitbook.com/docs/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://gitbook.com/docs/developers/gitbook-api/api-reference/docs-sites/apply-the-default-documentation-template-to-a-site.md). # Apply the default documentation template to a site Populates an empty site with GitBook's default documentation structure, content, and customization. Use this after creating a site without spaces to give it a ready-to-edit starting point. ```json {"openapi":"3.1.0","info":{"title":"GitBook API","version":"0.0.1-beta"},"tags":[{"name":"sites","description":"The Docs Sites API lets you programmatically manage published documentation sites within your organization. You can list and update all sites created under a specific organization, making it easy to audit or interact with site metadata at scale.\n\n{% openapi-schemas spec=\"gitbook\" schemas=\"Site\" grouped=\"false\" %}\n The Site object\n{% endopenapi-schemas %}\n"}],"servers":[{"url":"{host}/v1","variables":{"host":{"default":"https://api.gitbook.com"}}}],"security":[{"user-internal":[]},{"user":[]},{"oauth":["site:write"]}],"components":{"securitySchemes":{"user-internal":{"type":"http","scheme":"bearer"},"user":{"type":"http","scheme":"bearer"},"oauth":{"type":"oauth2","flows":{"authorizationCode":{"authorizationUrl":"https://oauth.gitbook.com/authorize","tokenUrl":"https://oauth.gitbook.com/token","scopes":{"user:read":"Read your GitBook user profile.","organization:read":"Read the organizations you belong to, their settings and metadata, and their AI agent conversations.","organization:write":"Create organizations, and update organization settings and AI agent conversations.","organization:members:read":"Read organization members, teams, invites and link invites.","organization:members:write":"Manage organization members, teams, invites and link invites.","organization:ask":"Ask AI questions across an organization's content.","organization:search":"Search across an organization's content.","space:read":"Read spaces and their content, including pages, change requests and their reviews, comments, files and revision history.","space:write":"Create, update and delete spaces and their content, including change requests (create, edit, review), comments, and content imports and exports. Merging a change request also requires change-request:merge.","space:permissions:read":"Read the users and teams who have access to spaces and collections.","space:permissions:write":"Manage who has access to spaces and collections, including inviting users and teams.","change-request:merge":"Merge change requests, publishing their changes to the space. Creating, editing and reviewing change requests only requires space:write.","site:read":"Read sites and their settings, including navigation structure, linked spaces, customization, redirects, topics, AI configuration and documentation issues.","site:write":"Create, update and delete sites and their settings, including navigation structure (sections, linked spaces, external links), customization, redirects, topics and AI configuration.","site:publish":"Publish and unpublish sites, controlling their public exposure.","site:permissions:read":"Read the users and teams who have access to sites.","site:permissions:write":"Manage who has access to sites, including inviting users and teams.","site:auth:read":"Read how visitors authenticate on a site and its security configuration, including private share links.","site:auth:write":"Manage how visitors authenticate on a site and its security configuration, including private share links.","site:insights:read":"Read site analytics and insights, including the questions visitors asked Ask AI and the answers they received.","site:ask":"Ask AI questions across a site's content.","site:search":"Search across a site's content.","integration:read":"Read integrations, their status and where they are installed.","integration:installations:read":"Read integration installations and their configuration, which can include credentials for third-party services.","integration:installations:write":"Install and configure integrations on an organization, its spaces and its sites.","integration:publish":"Publish integrations, which can request their own permissions on your content, and route their events to a development tunnel.","integration:delete":"Unpublish integrations, permanently deleting them and every installation of them.","openapi:read":"Read OpenAPI specifications.","openapi:write":"Create, update and delete OpenAPI specifications."}}}}},"parameters":{"organizationId":{"name":"organizationId","in":"path","required":true,"description":"The unique id of the organization","schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/EntityId"}},"siteId":{"name":"siteId","in":"path","required":true,"description":"The unique id of the site","schema":{"type":"string"}}},"schemas":{"EntityId":{"type":"string","pattern":"^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$","description":"A unique entity identifier"}}},"paths":{"/orgs/{organizationId}/sites/{siteId}/template":{"post":{"operationId":"applyTemplateToSite","summary":"Apply the default documentation template to a site","description":"Populates an empty site with GitBook's default documentation structure, content, and customization. Use this after creating a site without spaces to give it a ready-to-edit starting point.","tags":["sites"],"parameters":[{"$ref":"#/components/parameters/organizationId"},{"$ref":"#/components/parameters/siteId"}],"responses":{"200":{"description":"Template applied to site."}}}}}} ``` --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter, and the optional `goal` query parameter: ``` GET https://gitbook.com/docs/developers/gitbook-api/api-reference/docs-sites/apply-the-default-documentation-template-to-a-site.md?ask=&goal= ``` `ask` is the immediate question: it should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. `goal` is optional and describes the broader end goal you are ultimately trying to accomplish on behalf of the user. GitBook uses it to tailor the answer towards what is most useful for that goal. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.