Overview
The Agent Technical Writer is an LLM-powered documentation assistant that observes your development activity and autogenerates internal docs, onboarding guides, and changelogs in clean, readable Markdown. It sits alongside your codebase and dev tools, integrating seamlessly.
Problem
Developers often skip writing docs. Teams rely on tribal knowledge. Docs are outdated or nonexistent. New hires struggle. Changelogs are spotty or copy-pasted from commit messages.
Solution
The agent:
- Hooks into Git + PRs
- Watches your coding sessions or reviews
- Extracts intentions, APIs, and usage
- Generates:
- README updates
- Endpoint documentation
- Component usage notes
- Onboarding instructions
- Changelogs with diff summaries
Features
- Markdown or Notion export
- Editor preview + “accept edits” flow
- Supports frameworks: React, Next.js, Node.js, Django
- Optional voice notes to enrich context
Audience
- Startups with fast-moving teams
- OSS maintainers
- Freelancers + consultants with handoff duties
Extensions
- Multilingual doc generation
- Visual walkthroughs (Loom-style)
- Docs-as-code integrations (Docusaurus, Nextra)