diff --git a/doc/manual/generate-manpage.nix b/doc/manual/generate-manpage.nix
index bc19d0303..7bb7a0caa 100644
--- a/doc/manual/generate-manpage.nix
+++ b/doc/manual/generate-manpage.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ toplevel }:
+cliDumpStr:
 
 with builtins;
 with import ./utils.nix;
@@ -63,7 +63,10 @@ let
         * [`${command} ${name}`](./${appendName filename name}.md) - ${subcmd.description}
       '';
 
-      maybeDocumentation = if details ? doc then details.doc else "";
+      maybeDocumentation =
+        if details ? doc
+        then replaceStrings ["@stores@"] [storeDocs] details.doc
+        else "";
 
       maybeOptions = if details.flags == {} then "" else ''
         # Options
@@ -110,13 +113,13 @@ let
       };
     in [ cmd ] ++ concatMap subcommand (attrNames details.commands or {});
 
-  parsedToplevel = builtins.fromJSON toplevel;
+  cliDump = builtins.fromJSON cliDumpStr;
 
   manpages = processCommand {
     command = "nix";
-    details = parsedToplevel;
+    details = cliDump.args;
     filename = "nix";
-    toplevel = parsedToplevel;
+    toplevel = cliDump.args;
   };
 
   tableOfContents = let
@@ -124,4 +127,14 @@ let
       "    - [${page.command}](command-ref/new-cli/${page.name})";
     in concatStringsSep "\n" (map showEntry manpages) + "\n";
 
+  storeDocs =
+    let
+      showStore = name: { settings }:
+        ''
+          ## ${name}
+
+          ${showSettings false settings}
+        '';
+    in concatStrings (attrValues (mapAttrs showStore cliDump.stores));
+
 in (listToAttrs manpages) // { "SUMMARY.md" = tableOfContents; }
diff --git a/doc/manual/generate-options.nix b/doc/manual/generate-options.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index a4ec36477..000000000
--- a/doc/manual/generate-options.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-let
-  inherit (builtins) attrNames concatStringsSep isAttrs isBool;
-  inherit (import ./utils.nix) concatStrings squash splitLines;
-in
-
-optionsInfo:
-let
-  showOption = name:
-    let
-      inherit (optionsInfo.${name}) description documentDefault defaultValue aliases;
-      result = squash ''
-          - <span id="conf-${name}">[`${name}`](#conf-${name})</span>
-
-          ${indent "  " body}
-        '';
-      # separate body to cleanly handle indentation
-      body = ''
-          ${description}
-
-          **Default:** ${showDefault documentDefault defaultValue}
-
-          ${showAliases aliases}
-        '';
-      showDefault = documentDefault: defaultValue:
-        if documentDefault then
-          # a StringMap value type is specified as a string, but
-          # this shows the value type. The empty stringmap is `null` in
-          # JSON, but that converts to `{ }` here.
-          if defaultValue == "" || defaultValue == [] || isAttrs defaultValue
-            then "*empty*"
-            else if isBool defaultValue then
-              if defaultValue then "`true`" else "`false`"
-            else "`${toString defaultValue}`"
-        else "*machine-specific*";
-      showAliases = aliases:
-          if aliases == [] then "" else
-            "**Deprecated alias:** ${(concatStringsSep ", " (map (s: "`${s}`") aliases))}";
-      indent = prefix: s:
-        concatStringsSep "\n" (map (x: if x == "" then x else "${prefix}${x}") (splitLines s));
-      in result;
-in concatStrings (map showOption (attrNames optionsInfo))
diff --git a/doc/manual/local.mk b/doc/manual/local.mk
index 531168e3f..8bf89b408 100644
--- a/doc/manual/local.mk
+++ b/doc/manual/local.mk
@@ -60,17 +60,17 @@ $(d)/src/SUMMARY.md: $(d)/src/SUMMARY.md.in $(d)/src/command-ref/new-cli
 	@$(call process-includes,$@,$@)
 
 $(d)/src/command-ref/new-cli: $(d)/nix.json $(d)/generate-manpage.nix $(bindir)/nix
-	@rm -rf $@
-	$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) --write-to $@.tmp --expr 'import doc/manual/generate-manpage.nix { toplevel = builtins.readFile $<; }'
+	@rm -rf $@ $@.tmp
+	$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) --write-to $@.tmp --expr 'import doc/manual/generate-manpage.nix (builtins.readFile $<)'
 	@mv $@.tmp $@
 
-$(d)/src/command-ref/conf-file.md: $(d)/conf-file.json $(d)/generate-options.nix $(d)/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md $(bindir)/nix
+$(d)/src/command-ref/conf-file.md: $(d)/conf-file.json $(d)/utils.nix $(d)/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md $(bindir)/nix
 	@cat doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md > $@.tmp
-	$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) --expr 'import doc/manual/generate-options.nix (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile $<))' >> $@.tmp;
+	$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) --expr '(import doc/manual/utils.nix).showSettings true (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile $<))' >> $@.tmp;
 	@mv $@.tmp $@
 
 $(d)/nix.json: $(bindir)/nix
-	$(trace-gen) $(dummy-env) $(bindir)/nix __dump-args > $@.tmp
+	$(trace-gen) $(dummy-env) $(bindir)/nix __dump-cli > $@.tmp
 	@mv $@.tmp $@
 
 $(d)/conf-file.json: $(bindir)/nix
diff --git a/doc/manual/utils.nix b/doc/manual/utils.nix
index d0643ef46..ce0c21c98 100644
--- a/doc/manual/utils.nix
+++ b/doc/manual/utils.nix
@@ -38,4 +38,41 @@ rec {
 
   filterAttrs = pred: set:
     listToAttrs (concatMap (name: let v = set.${name}; in if pred name v then [(nameValuePair name v)] else []) (attrNames set));
+
+  showSetting = useSpans: name: { description, documentDefault, defaultValue, aliases, ... }:
+    let
+      result = squash ''
+          - ${if useSpans
+              then ''<span id="conf-${name}">[`${name}`](#conf-${name})</span>''
+              else ''[`${name}`](#conf-${name})''}
+
+          ${indent "  " body}
+        '';
+      # separate body to cleanly handle indentation
+      body = ''
+          ${description}
+
+          **Default:** ${showDefault documentDefault defaultValue}
+
+          ${showAliases aliases}
+        '';
+      showDefault = documentDefault: defaultValue:
+        if documentDefault then
+          # a StringMap value type is specified as a string, but
+          # this shows the value type. The empty stringmap is `null` in
+          # JSON, but that converts to `{ }` here.
+          if defaultValue == "" || defaultValue == [] || isAttrs defaultValue
+            then "*empty*"
+            else if isBool defaultValue then
+              if defaultValue then "`true`" else "`false`"
+            else "`${toString defaultValue}`"
+        else "*machine-specific*";
+      showAliases = aliases:
+          if aliases == [] then "" else
+            "**Deprecated alias:** ${(concatStringsSep ", " (map (s: "`${s}`") aliases))}";
+      indent = prefix: s:
+        concatStringsSep "\n" (map (x: if x == "" then x else "${prefix}${x}") (splitLines s));
+      in result;
+
+  showSettings = useSpans: settingsInfo: concatStrings (attrValues (mapAttrs (showSetting useSpans) settingsInfo));
 }
diff --git a/src/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.cc b/src/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.cc
index 1479822a9..93f25363a 100644
--- a/src/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.cc
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ struct HttpBinaryCacheStoreConfig : virtual BinaryCacheStoreConfig
 {
     using BinaryCacheStoreConfig::BinaryCacheStoreConfig;
 
-    const std::string name() override { return "Http Binary Cache Store"; }
+    const std::string name() override { return "HTTP Binary Cache Store"; }
 };
 
 class HttpBinaryCacheStore : public virtual HttpBinaryCacheStoreConfig, public virtual BinaryCacheStore
diff --git a/src/nix/describe-stores.cc b/src/nix/describe-stores.cc
index eafcedd1f..ad6b2f0f8 100644
--- a/src/nix/describe-stores.cc
+++ b/src/nix/describe-stores.cc
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ struct CmdDescribeStores : Command, MixJSON
         for (auto & implem : *Implementations::registered) {
             auto storeConfig = implem.getConfig();
             auto storeName = storeConfig->name();
-            res[storeName] = storeConfig->toJSON();
+            res[storeName]["settings"] = storeConfig->toJSON();
         }
         if (json) {
             logger->cout("%s", res);
diff --git a/src/nix/main.cc b/src/nix/main.cc
index 7b715f281..0ea6d7784 100644
--- a/src/nix/main.cc
+++ b/src/nix/main.cc
@@ -164,11 +164,28 @@ struct NixArgs : virtual MultiCommand, virtual MixCommonArgs
     {
         commands = RegisterCommand::getCommandsFor({});
     }
+
+    std::string dumpCli()
+    {
+        auto res = nlohmann::json::object();
+
+        res["args"] = toJSON();
+
+        auto stores = nlohmann::json::object();
+        for (auto & implem : *Implementations::registered) {
+            auto storeConfig = implem.getConfig();
+            auto storeName = storeConfig->name();
+            stores[storeName]["settings"] = storeConfig->toJSON();
+        }
+        res["stores"] = std::move(stores);
+
+        return res.dump();
+    }
 };
 
 /* Render the help for the specified subcommand to stdout using
    lowdown. */
-static void showHelp(std::vector<std::string> subcommand, MultiCommand & toplevel)
+static void showHelp(std::vector<std::string> subcommand, NixArgs & toplevel)
 {
     auto mdName = subcommand.empty() ? "nix" : fmt("nix3-%s", concatStringsSep("-", subcommand));
 
@@ -189,11 +206,11 @@ static void showHelp(std::vector<std::string> subcommand, MultiCommand & topleve
             , "/"),
         *vUtils);
 
-    auto attrs = state.buildBindings(16);
-    attrs.alloc("toplevel").mkString(toplevel.toJSON().dump());
+    auto vDump = state.allocValue();
+    vDump->mkString(toplevel.dumpCli());
 
     auto vRes = state.allocValue();
-    state.callFunction(*vGenerateManpage, state.allocValue()->mkAttrs(attrs), *vRes, noPos);
+    state.callFunction(*vGenerateManpage, *vDump, *vRes, noPos);
 
     auto attr = vRes->attrs->get(state.symbols.create(mdName + ".md"));
     if (!attr)
@@ -234,7 +251,7 @@ struct CmdHelp : Command
         assert(parent);
         MultiCommand * toplevel = parent;
         while (toplevel->parent) toplevel = toplevel->parent;
-        showHelp(subcommand, *toplevel);
+        showHelp(subcommand, dynamic_cast<NixArgs &>(*toplevel));
     }
 };
 
@@ -291,8 +308,8 @@ void mainWrapped(int argc, char * * argv)
 
     NixArgs args;
 
-    if (argc == 2 && std::string(argv[1]) == "__dump-args") {
-        logger->cout("%s", args.toJSON());
+    if (argc == 2 && std::string(argv[1]) == "__dump-cli") {
+        logger->cout(args.dumpCli());
         return;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/nix/store.cc b/src/nix/store.cc
index 2879e03b3..72b037488 100644
--- a/src/nix/store.cc
+++ b/src/nix/store.cc
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ struct CmdStore : virtual NixMultiCommand
         return "manipulate a Nix store";
     }
 
+    std::string doc() override
+    {
+        return
+          #include "store.md"
+          ;
+    }
+
     Category category() override { return catUtility; }
 
     void run() override
diff --git a/src/nix/store.md b/src/nix/store.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d80a3b1be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/nix/store.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+R"(
+
+# Store types
+
+Nix supports different types of stores. These are listed below.
+
+@stores@
+
+)"