# codebase.md

Codebase is a GitHub app idea for engineering teams that want their product documentation to stay true to the code.

It watches pull requests, identifies the docs affected by a code change, checks for stale or missing information, and suggests an evidence-backed update for a person to review. It could support docs in the same repository or a separate Git-backed docs repository.

Audience

Small and mid-sized engineering teams, developer-tool companies, API and SDK teams, open-source maintainers, and documentation or DevRel leads.

Likely buyers

Founders, engineering leads, and documentation owners who pay for fewer stale examples, safer releases, and less manual documentation review. The daily user would be the engineer reviewing a pull request.

Competitors and adjacent products

Promptless and GodHands focus on automated documentation maintenance. ReadMe, Mintlify, GitBook, and similar platforms bundle documentation workflows into a hosted docs product. Driftless, Pushpen, and DocDrift target simpler GitHub or documentation updates. Generic coding assistants and GitHub review bots are also alternatives.

The opportunity

Codebase would focus on one clear job: every code change gets a documentation review, and a documentation pull request is opened when the docs need work. It would stay Git-native, show the evidence behind each finding, and produce a useful no-op result when no update is needed.

Status

An early product idea, open to someone who wants to build it.