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AI for Keeping Internal API Docs in Sync with Code
Detect drift between your handler signatures and your docs, and propose targeted doc patches.
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The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2API documentation
- 3doc drift
- 4OpenAPI
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Section 1
The premise
Run the model against (handler source, current doc) pairs to flag mismatches and emit minimal markdown patches.
What AI does well here
- Spot params present in code but missing in docs
- Detect type mismatches in described response shapes
- Draft a patch that preserves doc voice
What AI cannot do
- Know intent behind undocumented optional params
- Decide which side (code or doc) is canonical
- Catch behavioral drift not visible in signatures
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