The integration is done and the partner asks a simple question: "Is there online documentation I can forward to our engineers?"

You have an OpenAPI file. Turning it into a link someone can actually read means picking a documentation tool, configuring deployment, and working out how it gets updated. Sending the file over chat is awkward for them; screenshots cannot be searched or copied. None of this is technically hard, but for a small team it quietly eats time that was meant for the product.

The API is ready. Delivery should not stall on "wait while I stand up a docs site."

Finish locally, deliver from Cloud

Powerduck connects the everyday API work to the external publish. You tidy the specification locally, use the assistant to fill in descriptions, verify the calls in the Request workspace, and then use the one-click host entry on the documentation surface to open Powerduck Cloud in the browser. The import, version selection, and publish configuration finish there. The hosted service renders the online documentation from the prepared specification — no separate documentation deployment to maintain for this delivery.

"One click" means the hosting entry point sits inside the workflow, not that decisions get automated away. What gets published and what the outside world can see is still confirmed by you, every time.

Publish the version you actually mean to deliver

Say a logistics partner is being given order lookup and shipment callback endpoints. The same project also contains internal order-creation fixes and batch correction operations, none of which belong in this delivery. Cloud publishes by document version and lets you configure which operations are exposed, so the delivered surface matches the partnership scope. The partner's engineers do not wade through internal endpoints to find the two they need.

Continuing to edit a local draft does not flash half-finished work in front of everyone reading the live documentation. You finish the review, then decide when a new version goes out. "Which version are we integrating against?" gets a concrete answer, and a version-pinned link never changes underneath the reader.

The same API can be handed to agents too

The partner's engineers may already be using AI coding assistants, and a web link alone sends them back to copying interface text into chat windows. Alongside documentation, Cloud can publish an MCP server from the same document, giving MCP clients a service entry point they can discover and use.

Reading documentation and executing API calls make different demands, so opening MCP deserves its own configuration: choose the operation scope, set an MCP access key, and configure how the MCP server authenticates to the upstream API independently of who reads the docs. People learn how to integrate from the documentation; agents get tool definitions and call within the configured permissions. One delivery serves both.

Documentation hosting as a delivery action, not a new project

Local-first keeps the contract in your workflow; the assistant keeps the content moving; Cloud turns the confirmed result into reachable documentation and an MCP service. The practical change for the team is that "where is the online documentation?" has a straight answer, with no impromptu website project attached to it.

Pick one stable group of external-facing endpoints, check the descriptions, examples, and auth in Powerduck, and make the first publish from the hosting entry. Leave behind an entry point you can keep updating — not another attachment that goes stale in a week.