mintlify/writer
✍️ AI powered documentation writer observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 87
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 1715
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 82
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3131 stars · 158 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Mintlify Writer is an AI-powered editor plugin (VS Code extension and IntelliJ plugin) that generates docstrings and documentation from highlighted code. It supports many languages and docstring formats but is now fully deprecated and no longer updated.
Use cases
- generate docstrings for functions automatically
- write jsdoc comments from code
- document python functions with numpy-style docstrings
- ai documentation writer for vscode
- generate javadoc comments quickly
When to choose
- you want an open-source reference for building AI docstring generators
- you use an older editor version and need offline plugin code
When to avoid
- you need a maintained documentation tool - it is deprecated as of June 2026
- you don't want code sent to an external AI service
- you want the current Mintlify documentation product instead
Facets
plugin · maturity abandoned
documentation llm-inference editor documentation developer-tools large-language-models editor-plugin cross-platform vscode-extension intellij-plugin docstrings ai-writing deprecated
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/mintlify/writer · fetched 2026-08-28 · d3cc615ea579
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| mintlify/writer | main | 10 |
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