module Shards::Docs

Overview

Shards Documentation

Shards is the dependency manager for the Crystal programming language. It reads shard.yml to resolve, install, and update dependencies from source repositories.

Features

• Dependency resolution via shard.yml with semantic versioning
• Lock files (shard.lock) for reproducible builds
• Build targets for compiling Crystal executables
• Postinstall scripts with version-aware execution tracking
• AI documentation distribution from shard dependencies
• MCP server distribution via .mcp-shards.json

See Shards::Docs submodules for detailed guides on each feature area.

Defined in:

docs.cr