Resources

Learn how to create documentation that explains the whole codebase

Start with practical documentation guidance, go deeper into the DocuWriter workflow, review real customer outcomes, or open the product and API references when you are ready to implement.

Learn

Follow a guide or explore the wider documentation library

Use the guide library when you need a repeatable process and the article library when you want examples, comparisons, or a deeper explanation of a documentation problem.

Featured guides

Build a strong documentation practice before choosing a tool

Good codebase documentation starts with clear audience, structure, evidence, and ownership. These guides cover the foundations, the writing process, and one of the hardest situations: understanding a legacy system before changing it.

Foundation

What is software documentation?

Understand the major forms of software documentation, who they serve, and how they fit together across a product lifecycle.

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Practice

How to write documentation

Use a practical process for planning, writing, reviewing, and improving technical documentation that people can actually use.

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Modernization

How to modernize legacy systems

See how system understanding, dependency mapping, documentation, and staged change reduce the risk of legacy modernization.

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Product documentation

Follow the complete platform workflow

Connect repositories, generate a documentation tree, manage the result in Spaces, and configure Autopilot. The product documentation covers each stage in detail.

  1. 01

    Product documentation

    Start with the platform reference, then follow the detailed setup, generation, Spaces, and Autopilot guidance.

    Open documentation →
  2. 02

    Generate a documentation tree

    Preview, review, accept, and generate a structured multi-page Space for an entire repository.

    Open documentation →
  3. 03

    Organize documentation in Spaces

    Learn how to structure and manage collaborative codebase documentation in one hierarchy.

    Open documentation →
  4. 04

    Maintain documentation with Autopilot

    Configure repository-aware documentation updates and a reviewable maintenance workflow.

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Customer story FinLocker logo

Documented 100+ repositories in 5 weeks, not 6 months.

FinLocker needed enterprise-ready documentation fast. DocuWriter.ai helped the team document 100+ repositories in five weeks and keep a strategic client deployment moving.

"We had over 100 repositories with incomplete documentation. Manually documenting everything would have taken about six months."

Princewill O.

Head of Engineering & Data/AI, FinLocker

Repositories
100+
Timeline
5 weeks
Manual path
~6 months

Evaluate

Compare approaches and inspect documentation quality

A platform decision should consider more than a feature list. Compare the operating model, then inspect the public quality methodology and evidence used to evaluate generated results.

References

Find the implementation detail you need

Product documentation

Configuration, workflows, generators, Spaces, Autopilot, teams, integrations, and platform guidance.

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REST API documentation

Authentication, generation endpoints, Spaces operations, repositories, webhooks, and response formats.

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Integrations

Connect repositories and documentation workflows across Git providers, Confluence, automation tools, notifications, and the public API.

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Ready to turn your repositories into maintained documentation?

See how generation, Spaces, and Autopilot work together across the complete DocuWriter platform.