Under developmentMica is experimental at v0.2.0 and not ready for production.Follow the releases.
Product overview
Mica is for content-driven business sites with a small editing team and a few hundred entries. It gives editors the right controls and gives developers a file system they can trust.
One system, three clear views
Use clear forms, useful field labels, rich text, media, relations, and reorderable lists. Save freely: drafts stay yours until you publish. The Publish page shows what each pending change does, field by field, before it becomes one commit.
Define the model in TypeScript and use getCollection in Astro. Content is local, typed, diffable, and available without a live CMS or a read token.
Run one container with SQLite and OpenID Connect. There is no database server, cache, queue, object store, content API, or build webhook.
A clean work surface
Add a collection or field in code. Mica reads the new model and updates the editing interface — no admin screen to build, no form schema to copy.
main · content/docs/getting-started/Complete workflow
Content is readable files in your repository. Every publish is one commit, ready for review, rollback, and your normal CI.
One TypeScript module defines the editor, validation, file layout, Astro collections, and page data types.
Give editors purpose-built fields, focused rich text, media selection, relations, and useful validation messages.
Git keeps the history. Per-entry revision checks stop stale edits without blocking people who work on different content.
Images are repository files. Astro optimizes them at build time, so the public site does not fetch assets from Mica.
Deploy one container. OpenID Connect gives identity, and one setting gives permission. SQLite holds sessions, but never website content.
What runs where
The public site gets no client library. It receives the static output that Astro already makes.
@micacms/coreFields, validation, and file layout@micacms/astroTyped Astro Content Layer loaders@micacms/connectorsLocal, GitHub, and GitLab writes@micacms/runtimeThe API server, authentication-neutral@micacms/editor-uiThe editing interface, as built assets@micacms/editorThe local editor: npx @micacms/editor@micacms/self-hostedThe Docker image, behind OIDC@micacms/auth-oidcOpenID Connect for deploymentsSQLiteSessions and unpublished drafts onlyOpenID ConnectAuthentication in productionOpen source and experimental