# context-labs/autodoc

Experimental toolkit for auto-generating codebase documentation using LLMs

Repository: https://github.com/context-labs/autodoc
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/autodoc
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: documentation-generator, language-model, cli-tool, typescript
Last push: 2024-08-12T00:56:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 30/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 90
- inputs: {"age_days": 1260, "days_push": 752, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2360, forks 150 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:40.888052+00:00)

## What it is
Autodoc is an experimental CLI toolkit that auto-generates documentation for git repositories using large language models like GPT-4. It indexes a codebase via depth-first traversal, writes docs for each file and folder, and lets developers ask questions about the codebase with answers linked back to source files.

## Use cases
- generate documentation for a codebase automatically with llms
- ask questions about a repository and get answers with file references
- document every file and folder in a git repo
- keep codebase docs up to date via ci indexing
- onboard developers to an unfamiliar codebase with ai docs

## When to choose
- you want llm-written documentation living alongside your code
- you need a question-answering interface over your repository
- you're exploring experimental ai documentation tooling

## When to avoid
- you need production-stable documentation tooling
- you can't send code to an external llm
- you want fully deterministic, hand-written docs

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: experimental
- function: documentation, llm-inference, cli, search-engine
- domain: developer-tools, documentation, large-language-models
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: codebase-indexing, llm-documentation, typescript, git-repositories, ai-generated-docs, nodejs

## Member repositories
- context-labs/autodoc (main) score 30

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:40.888052+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:36:07.977953+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/context-labs/autodoc (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:40.888052+00:00, sha 7bdd2fac03b9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.