# mintlify/writer

✍️ AI powered documentation writer

Repository: https://github.com/mintlify/writer
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/writer
Homepage: https://www.mintlify.com/writer
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: productivity, machine-learning, vscode-extension, intellij-plugin
Archived: true
Last push: 2026-06-12T17:31:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 87, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1715, "days_push": 82, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3131, forks 158 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:45.520571+00:00)

## What it is
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 It supports many languages and docstring formats but is now fully deprecated and no longer updated.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
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: abandoned
- function: documentation, llm-inference, editor
- domain: documentation, developer-tools, large-language-models
- platform: editor-plugin, cross-platform
- tags: vscode-extension, intellij-plugin, docstrings, ai-writing, deprecated

## Member repositories
- mintlify/writer (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:45.520571+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 2026-08-30T07:26:10.024334+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mintlify/writer (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:45.520571+00:00, sha d3cc615ea579)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.