Agent Docs Guild

Agent docs guild

Docs rot quietly. A feature ships, the page describing the old behavior stays up, and no one owns the drift. A guild hands each part of the job to its own agent: one finds what is missing or wrong, one writes, an engineer checks it against the code, and one sweeps for staleness on a cadence. Coverage and freshness are separate jobs, so they get separate agents.

Method

1. Gap analyst diffs docs against reality. Compare the documented surface, public API, CLI flags, config keys, and user flows, against the code and the changelog. Output gaps.md, one row per undocumented or contradicted topic, ranked by how many users hit it. A missing endpoint outranks a typo.
2. Drafter writes one page per gap. Load technical-writer-role. Produce a page.md per topic: what it does, a minimal working example, parameters, and failure modes. Pull real signatures and defaults from source instead of inventing them.
3. Technical reviewer verifies against code. Load backend-engineer-role or the module owner. The reviewer runs every example and confirms each claim maps to current behavior, returning findings anchored to file:line. A page that reads well but describes stale behavior fails.
4. Loop draft and review until examples run. The drafter fixes each finding or defends it. Cap at two rounds; a claim neither side can settle escalates to the module owner rather than shipping unverified.
5. Freshness sweeper runs on a schedule. On a cron cadence, scan merged pages for version drift, dead links, and examples that no longer compile against main. Output staleness-report.md: page, symptom, suspected cause. It reopens work, it does not fix it.
6. Route stale pages back as fresh gaps. Each staleness finding becomes a row the gap analyst re-ranks, closing the loop so a shipped page that goes stale re-enters the pipeline instead of quietly lying to readers.

Run it

In Claude Code, run gap, draft, and review as subagents in sequence, one page per draft subagent to keep contexts small, and fan the drafters out in parallel when the gaps are independent. Keep gaps.md and the pages as files on a docs branch, and schedule the sweeper as a recurring job that reopens gaps.md. Terminate a cycle when gaps.md holds no open rows and every merged page passed review; the freshness loop never terminates, it recurs. To port, use a CrewAI sequential Crew with a scheduled kickoff, an AutoGen GroupChat with a reviewer critic, or a LangGraph graph with a periodic trigger feeding the gap node.

Signals it works

• Every merged page had its examples executed by the reviewer, not just read.
• Gaps rank by user impact, so the most-hit missing page gets written first.
• A feature that shipped last week already has a gap row or a live page.

Boundaries

This guild produces reference and task docs, not marketing copy or API design decisions. It defers tone and information architecture to the project's docs convention, and it will not publish a page the technical reviewer never cleared. Whether a topic deserves a page at all stays with the docs owner.