# 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.