Automating Documentation Review in Your CI/CD Pipeline

You lint your code. You run tests. You check for security vulnerabilities. But what about your documentation? Most teams treat docs as second-class citizens in CI/CD. Code gets automated quality gates; docs get... a human reading them whenever they have time. Here's how to change that. The Problem: Documentation Review is a Bottleneck Every docs PR in our repo sat waiting for review. Someone had to manually check: Are headings capitalized correctly? Did the author use our terminology ("click" not "select")? Are all the links still valid? Is the structure consistent with other pages? This was tedious for reviewers and slow for contributors. Engineers would submit docs, wait days for feedback, then get a list of nitpicky style fixes. We decided to automate the mechanical stuff. What We Automated Check Before After Style guide compliance Manual review Automated Broken links Occasional spot checks Every PR Terminology consistency "I think we use X?" Enforced Heading format Manual review Au