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OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase

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Re: OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase

#4
maintaining an LLM wiki has been a lot more effort than I thought, at least if we are trying to maintain a high quality in structure and writing comprehension (for easier lookups both for the agent and human). Are people just shotgunning their agent wikis or how

Re: OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase

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post #3

What does this do better than just asking your agent to "write docs" or a more robustly defined prompt/skill?

I swear most of these tools are made for the sake of it…

While good old prompting is often better than plan mode or superpower skills.

Re: OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase

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post #3

What does this do better than just asking your agent to "write docs" or a more robustly defined prompt/skill?

Have a look at the prompts in the GitHub [0]. It defines a System Prompt and specifies the documentation structure. This would allow you to switch coding agents, instead of relying on how your coding agent interprets the command "write docs".

[0]: https://github.com/langchain-ai/openwiki/blob/main/src/agent...

Re: OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase

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We need to make an effort to distinguish “this is a thing for humans” vs “this is a thing for bots” in our naming IMHO. In that respect, “open wiki” is not such a great name. “Agent Wiki” or similar would be better.

Without such a qualifier, “wiki” carries a strong connotation of (usually collaborative) human involvement. That’s literally what it’s famous for.

Thats just my $0.02 on the naming. I definitely think it’s a worthwhile idea. All the best.

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