diff --git a/docs/user_docs/cli/_category_.yml b/docs/user_docs/cli/_category_.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index dff53aca8..000000000
--- a/docs/user_docs/cli/_category_.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-position: 30
-label: Command Line
-collapsible: true 
-collapsed: true 
-className: hide-children
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hack/docgen/cli/main.go b/hack/docgen/cli/main.go
index 82db2cab2..7eb983a34 100644
--- a/hack/docgen/cli/main.go
+++ b/hack/docgen/cli/main.go
@@ -97,6 +97,15 @@ func main() {
 		rootPath = os.Args[1]
 	}
 
+	// normalize and ensure output directory exists
+	rootPath = filepath.Clean(rootPath)
+
+	// 0o755 is an octal literal for Unix file permissions: rwxr-xr-x
+	// (owner can read/write/execute, group and others can read/execute)
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(rootPath, 0o755); err != nil {
+		log.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
 	fmt.Println("Scanning CLI docs rootPath: ", rootPath)
 	cli := cmd.NewCliCmd()
 	cli.Long = fmt.Sprintf("```\n%s\n```", cli.Long)