diff --git a/docs/scripts/main.py b/docs/scripts/main.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c9eb5cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/scripts/main.py
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import time
+
+import requests
+
+# current file location
+curr_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+parent_dir = os.path.dirname(curr_dir)
+
+# Commands which block the process
+BLOCKING_START_COMMANDS = ["local-ic start", "make testnet", "make sh-testnet"]
+ignore_commands = ["gh repo create"]
+
+START_PID = -1
+DEBUGGING = False
+
+def main():
+    demos = os.path.join(parent_dir, "versioned_docs", "version-v0.50.x", "03-demos")
+    with open(os.path.join(demos, "03-tokenfactory.md"), "r") as f:
+        parse_docs(f.read())
+
+def poll_for_start(API_URL: str, pid=-1, waitSeconds=300):
+    for i in range(waitSeconds + 1):
+        try:
+            requests.get(API_URL)
+            return
+        except Exception:
+            # if i % 5 == 0:
+            print(f"waiting for server to start (iter:{i}) ({API_URL})")
+            time.sleep(1)
+
+    if pid != -1:
+        print(f"Killing process with pid for failing to start: {pid}")
+        os.system(f"kill {pid}")
+
+    raise Exception("Server did not start")
+
+def clean_lines(text: str) -> list[str]:
+    # remove comment lines
+    sec = [line for line in text.split("\n") if not line.startswith("#")]
+
+    for l in sec:
+        l = l.strip()
+        # if l starts with any in ignore-commands, remove the line from the section
+        if any([l.startswith(cmd) for cmd in ignore_commands]):
+            sec.remove(l)
+
+    # remove blank lines
+    return [line for line in sec if line.strip() != ""]
+
+def get_env_variables_from_lines(lines: list[str]) -> dict[str, str]:
+    env_vars = {}
+    for line in lines:
+        # DENOM=factory/roll1hj5fveer5cjtn4wd6wstzugjfdxzl0xpg2te87/mytoken
+        match = re.match(r"([A-Z_]+)=(.*)", line)
+        if match:
+            env_vars[match.group(1)] = match.group(2)
+
+    return env_vars
+
+def parse_docs(text: str):
+    global START_PID
+
+    # split the text by ```bash
+    sections = text.split("```bash")
+    for section in sections[1:]: # first section has nothing we want
+        end = section.find("```")
+        sec = clean_lines(section[:end])
+
+        if len(sec) == 0:
+            # print("debugging: empty (commands are ignored / there is nothing here)")
+            continue
+
+        secStr = "\n".join(sec)
+
+        print("="*20, "\n", secStr, "\n", "="*20)
+
+        # run sec as the os terminal
+        if not DEBUGGING:
+            # if sec contains anything from within BLOCKING_START_COMMANDS, it should run in its
+            # own terminal
+
+            # TODO: keep up with these globally and unset at end? so we dont polute test
+            envs = get_env_variables_from_lines(sec)
+            for k, v in envs.items():
+                os.environ[k] = v
+                print(f"{k}={v}")
+
+            if any([cmd in sec for cmd in BLOCKING_START_COMMANDS]):
+                START_PID = subprocess.Popen(secStr, shell=True).pid
+                print(f"Started process with pid: {START_PID}")
+                poll_for_start("http://127.0.0.1:26657", START_PID, waitSeconds=60)
+            else:
+                os.system(secStr)
+                time.sleep(2)
+
+            # input("--- Press Enter to continue...")
+
+    # TODO: verification logic here
+    # Kill / cleanup the instance (direct from pid would be nice, or just a killall <binary>)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/docs/versioned_docs/version-v0.50.x/03-demos/03-tokenfactory.md b/docs/versioned_docs/version-v0.50.x/03-demos/03-tokenfactory.md
index 8421d19..c3614bc 100644
--- a/docs/versioned_docs/version-v0.50.x/03-demos/03-tokenfactory.md
+++ b/docs/versioned_docs/version-v0.50.x/03-demos/03-tokenfactory.md
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ The `denom_creation_fee` is a cost the application can set for creating new toke
 The `denom_creation_gas_consume` is the amount of indirect resource cost to consume for creating a new token.
 It is a more indirect approach to charging and is a better experience overall for developers on a network.
 
-```bash
+```text
 params:
   denom_creation_fee: []
   denom_creation_gas_consume: "100000"
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ rolld q tokenfactory denoms-from-creator $(rolld keys show acc0 -a)
 
 <details>
 <summary>denoms-from-creator output</summary>
-```bash
+```text
 denoms:
 - factory/roll1hj5fveer5cjtn4wd6wstzugjfdxzl0xpg2te87/mytoken
 ```
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ rolld q bank denom-metadata $DENOM
 
 <details>
 <summary>bank denom-metadata output</summary>
-```bash
+```text
 metadata:
   base: factory/roll1hj5fveer5cjtn4wd6wstzugjfdxzl0xpg2te87/mytoken
   denom_units:
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ rolld q bank balances $(rolld keys show acc0 -a)
 
 <details>
 <summary>bank balances output</summary>
-```bash
+```text
 balances:
 - amount: "5000000"
   denom: factory/roll1hj5fveer5cjtn4wd6wstzugjfdxzl0xpg2te87/mytoken
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ rolld q bank balances $(rolld keys show acc1 -a)
 
 <details>
 <summary>mint-to output</summary>
-```bash
+```text
 balances:
 - amount: "1000000"
   denom: factory/roll1hj5fveer5cjtn4wd6wstzugjfdxzl0xpg2te87/mytoken
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ note, you can check for just a specific token balance with
 rolld q bank balance $(rolld keys show acc0 -a) $DENOM
 ```
 
-```bash
+```text
 balance:
   amount: "5000000"
   denom: factory/roll1hj5fveer5cjtn4wd6wstzugjfdxzl0xpg2te87/mytoken