Front Matter Fields

All fields

Field	Type	Example	Notes
title	string	"My Post"	Always written. Used to generate filename.
date	ISO 8601	2026-05-21T14:32:00+02:00	Set to publish time automatically.
author	string	tor	Selected from authors list in scribe.yaml
categories	string array	[review]	Always an array — even single value
tags	string array	[hugo, cms]	Free-form chip input
feature_image	string (URL)	/images/posts/2026-05-21-slug-abc123.webp	Set after image upload
draft	boolean	false	Toggle in editor. true = unpublished

categories is always an array

scribe always writes categories as a YAML array:

categories:
  - review

In Hugo templates, use index .Params.categories 0 to get the first value. In Astro, use z.array(z.string()) in your schema — never z.string().