Removing what you don't need

Both features are optional, and the template is built to come apart cleanly. Deleting the logged-in tier is also what unlocks fully static hosting — see Deploy.

Remove the API reference

Delete
`public/openapi.yaml`, `public/openapi-admin.yaml`	The two bundled example documents. (The third example is a remote URL — deleting its entry from the config is all it takes.)
`src/pages/api/`	The route.
`src/pages/api-spec/`	The endpoint that serves documents kept outside `public/`.
`src/config/api-reference.mjs`	The reference list.
`src/lib/openapi-sidebar.mjs`	The generated sidebar group.
`src/components/ScalarApiReference.astro`, `src/components/ApiSearchIndex.astro`	The Scalar wrapper and its search bridge.
`tests/openapi-sidebar.test.mjs`, `tests/api-reference-config.test.mjs`, `tests/api-spec-endpoint.test.mjs`, `tests/api-spec-equivalence.test.mjs`, `tests/scalar-api-reference.test.mjs`, `tests/visual/api-reference.spec.mjs`	Their tests.

Then, in astro.config.mjs: remove the apiReferenceSidebar block, its imports from src/config/api-reference.mjs and src/lib/openapi-sidebar.mjs, and its spread into the sidebar: array.

Uninstall the Scalar dependencies and the overrides entry pinning one of them to this project’s Astro version:

npm uninstall @scalar/astro @scalar/openapi-parser @scalar/workspace-store

Remove the logged-in experience

Delete
`src/content/private-docs/`, `src/content/org-docs/`	The two collections’ content.
`src/pages/private/`, `src/pages/auth/`, `src/pages/demo-login.astro`	The guarded routes and the demo login.
`src/middleware.ts`	The guard.
`src/config/auth.mjs`, `src/config/demo-login.mjs`	Auth and demo-login configuration.
`src/lib/auth/`, `src/lib/demo-login.mjs`, `src/lib/private-sidebar.mjs`, `src/lib/sidebar-items.mjs`	Supporting logic.
`src/components/AuthControl.astro`	The Log in / Log out control.
`tests/auth-*.test.mjs`, `tests/demo-login.test.mjs`, `tests/private-leaks.test.mjs`, `tests/sidebar-items.test.mjs`, `tests/visual/auth.spec.mjs`, `tests/visual/demo-login.spec.mjs`, `tests/mock-sso/`	Their tests, and the mock SSO server.

Then:

Drop the privateDocs and orgDocs collections from src/content.config.ts.
Drop privateDocsLink from src/config/sidebar.mjs, and its conditional use in astro.config.mjs.
Remove the AuthControl import and its render from src/components/CustomHeader.astro and src/components/CustomMobileMenuFooter.astro. If that leaves the latter doing nothing else, delete it and its MobileMenuFooter override in astro.config.mjs too.
Remove the hint-cookie import and inline script from src/components/CustomHead.astro.
Remove the dev:sso script from package.json and the mock-SSO webServer entry from playwright.config.mjs.

Then get the plain static build back, or the site keeps shipping a server it no longer needs:

In astro.config.mjs, change the adapter: line to adapter: process.env.VERCEL ? vercel() : undefined, and remove the env: block, the @astrojs/node import, the ssoConfigured line and its use in the sidebar array, the three DOCS_SSO_* names from the loadEnv destructure, and the sitemap filter.

Keep the loadEnv call itself. It also supplies DOCS_SITE_URL, which site uses — delete the whole block and the next build throws ReferenceError: DOCS_SITE_URL is not defined.
Uninstall the Node adapter and the token library — and keep @astrojs/vercel if you deploy to Vercel. It is how Vercel’s features, Markdown negotiation among them, reach a static site; this site is built that way. Deploying anywhere else, uninstall it too and drop the vercelMarkdownNegotiation() line from astro.config.mjs.
Terminal window
```
npm uninstall @astrojs/node jose
```

Skipping that second half leaves dist/server/ in the build output with no dist/index.html at the root — which quietly breaks static-host deploy instructions that expect one.

Loose ends

None of these break the build, but each is now dead weight or actively misleading:

File	What to do
`src/env.d.ts`	Drop the `App.Locals.session` type — it existed only for the middleware.
`.env.example`, `.env.test`	Almost entirely `DOCS_SSO_*` and `DOCS_UNSAFE_DEMO_LOGIN`. Strip to what you still use, or delete.
`src/content.config.ts`	The `glob` import is unused once the two collections go.
`src/config/sidebar.mjs`	Its module docstring describes a private sidebar that no longer exists.
`astro.config.mjs`	The long comments above the lines you removed explain a sitemap filter and an adapter split that are gone.

Removing both

npm run test:visual and playwright.config.mjs have nothing left to test once both features are gone — their only two subjects are the API reference and the SSO round trip. Delete playwright.config.mjs, tests/visual/, tests/helpers/test-servers.mjs, the three test:visual* scripts, and the @playwright/test dependency.

These steps were executed end to end when EkLine built this documentation site from the template, and corrected from what that run actually hit.

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