DocSmith

AI-powered documentation generation tool built on the Aigne Framework.

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Features

DocSmith is a complete documentation generation system that provides:

• 📚 Generate comprehensive documentation from code repositories, text files, and media resources
• 🏗️ Build organized documentation structures and documentation sites
• 📝 Intelligently analyze workspace content and generate structured documentation
• 🔄 Convert code/project content into readable documentation
• 🌍 Multi-language support and documentation localization
• 🖼️ Automatic generation and updating of documentation images
• 📤 One-click publishing to multiple platforms

Supports generating:

• Technical documentation
• User guides
• API references
• Tutorials and examples
• Product documentation

User Intent Analysis

DocSmith automatically analyzes workspace content to infer:

• Target audience - Primary readers of the documentation (developers, operators, end users, etc.)
• Use cases - Context in which users consult the documentation (first contact, development integration, troubleshooting, etc.)
• Documentation focus - Documentation type (user guide, API reference, quick start, architecture overview, etc.)

Inference results are presented to users for confirmation, with support for multiple rounds of adjustments until satisfied.

Structure Confirmation Mechanism

Before generating documentation, DocSmith displays the planned documentation structure:

• Total number of documents and hierarchy
• Title, description, and source files for each document
• Clear emoji indicators for quick browsing

Users can:

• Delete/add documents
• Adjust hierarchy (merge, split, adjust parent-child relationships)
• Modify content scope

Actual content generation begins only after user confirms the structure.

Project Structure

aigne-doc-smith/
├── aigne.yaml                # Aigne framework configuration
├── package.json              # Project dependencies and metadata
├── CLAUDE.md                 # Claude Code project description
├── README.md                 # This file
│
├── agents/                   # Specialized Agents
│   ├── bash-executor/        # Bash command execution agent
│   ├── clear/                # Configuration cleanup agent
│   ├── content-checker/      # Content checking agent
│   ├── generate-images/      # Image generation agent
│   ├── localize/             # Documentation localization agent
│   ├── publish/              # Documentation publishing agent
│   ├── save-document/        # Document saving agent
│   ├── structure-checker/    # Structure checking agent
│   └── update-image/         # Image update agent
│
├── skills/                   # Skill definitions
│   └── doc-smith/            # DocSmith Skill
│       ├── SKILL.md          # Skill main document
│       └── references/       # Reference documents
│
├── skills-entry/             # Aigne framework entry configuration
│   └── doc-smith/
│       ├── index.yaml        # Main entry configuration
│       └── prompt.md         # Prompt template
│
├── utils/                    # Utility library
│   ├── config.mjs            # Configuration management
│   ├── docs.mjs              # Document processing
│   ├── git.mjs               # Git operations
│   ├── image-utils.mjs       # Image utilities
│   ├── workspace.mjs         # Workspace management
│   └── ...                   # More utilities
│
└── scripts/                  # Helper scripts
    └── ...

Quick Start

1. Install Aigne CLI

npm install -g @aigne/cli

2. Start DocSmith

Run directly in your project root:

cd my-project
aigne doc

On first execution, Aigne CLI will automatically install DocSmith and start the interactive documentation generation process.

Automatic Initialization:

DocSmith will automatically:

• Detect the current project
• Create workspace in .aigne/doc-smith/ directory
• Generate config.yaml configuration file

Completed During Conversation:

DocSmith will guide you through:

1. Ask for output language (if not specified)
2. Analyze project content
3. Infer user intent
4. Plan documentation structure
5. Generate structured Markdown documentation

3. Generated Directory Structure

my-project/
├── .aigne/
│   └── doc-smith/              # DocSmith workspace
│       ├── config.yaml         # Configuration file
│       ├── intent/             # User intent
│       ├── planning/           # Documentation structure planning
│       ├── docs/               # Generated documentation
│       │   ├── overview.md
│       │   ├── getting-started.md
│       │   └── api/
│       │       └── authentication.md
│       └── cache/              # Temporary data
└── (other project files...)

4. Independent Workspace Mode (Optional)

To separate documentation project from source code, use independent workspace:

# Create independent workspace
mkdir my-docs
cd my-docs
aigne doc

Independent mode supports multiple data source configuration:

# config.yaml
sources:
  - name: "main"
    type: local-path
    path: "../my-project"

  - name: "other-repo"
    type: git-clone
    url: "https://github.com/example/repo.git"
    branch: "main"

Core Features

Documentation Generation

• Intelligent analysis of source code and project structure
• Automatic inference of user intent and target audience
• Generation of structured Markdown documentation
• Support for documentation hierarchy planning and confirmation

Image Management

• Automatic generation of documentation images
• Image placeholder system support
• Batch update and edit images
• Multiple image generation model support

Multi-language Support

• Documentation localization and translation
• Multi-language documentation structure management
• Automatic synchronization of different language versions

Publishing and Deployment

• One-click publishing to multiple platforms
• Custom publishing configuration support
• Documentation site building and deployment

Development

Install Dependencies

pnpm install

Code Quality

Project uses Biome for code linting and formatting:

# Check code
pnpm run lint

# Auto fix
pnpm run lint:fix

Modifying Agents

To add or modify agents:

1. Create or modify agent in agents/ directory
2. Register new agent in aigne.yaml
3. Write agent prompts and configuration files

Modifying Utility Functions

To extend or optimize utility functions:

1. Add or modify utility functions in utils/ directory
2. Ensure ES module syntax (.mjs files)
3. Import and use where needed

Tech Stack

• Aigne Framework - AI agent orchestration framework
• Node.js - Runtime environment (ES modules)
• pnpm - Package manager
• Biome - Code linting and formatting
• YAML - Configuration and data format

Notes

• Ensure Node.js (v18+) and pnpm are installed
• Ensure Git is installed (for submodule and version management)
• Anthropic API key or other LLM provider configuration required
• Image generation features require corresponding API key configuration

Migration Guide

If you previously used an older version (.aigne/doc-smith/ directory structure), we recommend:

1. Create a new workspace directory
2. Regenerate documentation
3. Old version data can be manually migrated to the new workspace directory structure

Version

Current version: 0.9.11

Support

For issues or suggestions, please open an issue in the project.

Author

Arcblock - blocklet@arcblock.io

GitHub: @blocklet

License

Elastic-2.0 License

Related Links

• Aigne Framework
• Arcblock