diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index c578d30be3ca..087716df1f38 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
 .vscode/
 contributing/
 docs/
-node_modules/
-tests/
-# Folder is cloned during the Dockerfile build
 docs-early-access/
+node_modules/
 README.md
+tests/
diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 146c40f1f5a0..da85f250f814 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 # https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
 
 # Site Policy
-/content/site-policy/ @github/site-policy-admins
+content/site-policy/ @github/site-policy-admins
 
 # Enterprise
-/data/release-notes/**/*.yml @github/docs-content-enterprise
+data/release-notes/**/*.yml @github/docs-content-enterprise
 src/ghes-releases/lib/enterprise-dates.json @github/docs-content-enterprise
 
 # Requires review of #actions-oidc-integration, docs-engineering/issues/1506
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 72a376a8d960..5ad99e78e7a4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,58 +1,113 @@
-.search-cache
+# Test coverage reports
+.coverage/
+
+# macOS system files
 .DS_Store
+
+# Environment variables (contains secrets)
 .env
-.vscode/settings.json
-.idea/
-/node_modules/
-npm-debug.log
-coverage/
-/assets/images/early-access
-/content/early-access
-/data/early-access
-/src/dev-toc/static
-.next
+
+# ESLint cache for faster linting
 .eslintcache
-*.tsbuildinfo
-/translations/
+
+# JetBrains IDE files
+.idea/
+
+# Tracks package-lock.json installation state
+.installed.package-lock.json
+
+# Linkinator full site link check results
+.linkinator/
+
+# Next.js build output
+.next/
+
+# Node.js version specification
 .node-version
-.linkinator/full.log
-next-env.d.ts
-nohup.out
 
-# blc: broken link checker
+# Precomputed page info cache (brotli compressed)
+.pageinfo-cache.json.br
+
+# getRemoteJSON() disk cache for archived content
+.remotejson-cache/
+
+# VS Code workspace settings
+.vscode/settings.json
+
+# TypeScript incremental build info
+*.tsbuildinfo
+
+# Early access images from docs-early-access repo
+assets/images/early-access/
+
+# Accidentally committed file that should be ignored
+assets/images/help/writing/unordered-list-rendered (1).png
+
+# Old broken link checker output
 blc_output.log
+
+# Old internal broken link checker output
 blc_output_internal.log
+
+# Old broken links report
 broken_links.md
-# This one is purely for historical reasons because so many people might
-# still have these files on their disk.
-lib/redirects/.redirects-cache*.json
 
+# Early access content from docs-early-access repo
+content/early-access/
+
+# Test coverage reports
+coverage/
+
+# Early access data from docs-early-access repo
+data/early-access/
 
-# Logs from scripts
-*/logs/
+# Cloned for Elasticsearch indexing data
+docs-internal-data/
+
+# External link checker cache database
 external-link-checker-db.json
 
-# Playwright related
-/test-results/
-/playwright-report/
-/playwright/.cache/
+# Historical redirects cache (legacy)
+lib/redirects/.redirects-cache*.json
 
-# Automated content source
-rest-api-description
-semmle-code
-models-gateway
+# Script execution logs
+logs/
 
-.installed.package-lock.json
-assets/images/help/writing/unordered-list-rendered (1).png
+# GitHub Models API descriptions
+models-gateway/
 
-# Used by getRemoteJSON()
-.remotejson-cache/
+# Next.js TypeScript environment definitions
+next-env.d.ts
 
-# Used by precompute-pageinfo
-.pageinfo-cache.json.br
+# Node.js dependencies
+node_modules/
 
-# Cloned and used for indexing Elasticsearch data
-docs-internal-data/
+# Background process output
+nohup.out
+
+# NPM debug logs
+npm-debug.log
+
+# Playwright test reports
+playwright-report/
 
-# For intermediate data (like scraping for Elasticsearch indexing)
+# Playwright browser cache
+playwright/.cache/
+
+# REST API OpenAPI descriptions
+rest-api-description/
+
+# CodeQL CLI documentation source
+semmle-code/
+
+# Development table of contents static HTML files
+src/dev-toc/static/
+
+# Playwright test result artifacts
+test-results/
+
+# Temporary data files
 tmp/
+
+# Localized content from translation repositories
+translations/
diff --git a/.prettierignore b/.prettierignore
index 4a5ab8409d53..5c6d47147fa4 100644
--- a/.prettierignore
+++ b/.prettierignore
@@ -1,10 +1,2 @@
 data/release-notes/
 src/bookmarklets/
-/.next/
-
-/.coverage
-/coverage
-
-# Automated content source
-rest-api-description
-semmle-code
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 5a8c618aae2e..780e7c5ccc58 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ RUN --mount=type=secret,id=DOCS_BOT_PAT_BASE,mode=0444 \
   echo "Don't cache this step by printing date: $(date)" && \
   . ./build-scripts/fetch-repos.sh
 
-# -----------------------------------------
+# ------------------------------------------------
 # PROD_DEPS STAGE: Install production dependencies
-# -----------------------------------------
+# ------------------------------------------------
 FROM base AS prod_deps
 USER node:node
 WORKDIR $APP_HOME
@@ -66,17 +66,17 @@ COPY --chown=node:node package.json package-lock.json ./
 # Install only production dependencies (skip scripts to avoid husky)
 RUN npm ci --omit=dev --ignore-scripts --registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
 
-# -----------------------------------------
+# ------------------------------------------------------------
 # ALL_DEPS STAGE: Install all dependencies on top of prod deps
-# -----------------------------------------
+# ------------------------------------------------------------
 FROM prod_deps AS all_deps
 
 # Install dev dependencies on top of production ones
 RUN npm ci --registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
 
-# -----------------------------------------
+# ----------------------------------
 # BUILD STAGE: Build the application
-# -----------------------------------------
+# ----------------------------------
 FROM base AS build
 USER node:node
 WORKDIR $APP_HOME
@@ -99,17 +99,17 @@ COPY --chown=node:node --from=all_deps $APP_HOME/node_modules node_modules/
 # Build the application
 RUN npm run build
 
-# -----------------------------------------
+# ---------------------------------------------
 # WARMUP_CACHE STAGE: Warm up remote JSON cache
-# -----------------------------------------
+# ---------------------------------------------
 FROM build AS warmup_cache
 
 # Generate remote JSON cache
 RUN npm run warmup-remotejson
 
-# -----------------------------------------
+# --------------------------------------
 # PRECOMPUTE STAGE: Precompute page info
-# -----------------------------------------
+# --------------------------------------
 FROM build AS precompute_stage
 
 # Generate precomputed page info