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I built a free GitHub App that auto-updates your docs on every push

via Dev.toAkira Machimura

Your README hasn't been updated in months. Your CHANGELOG doesn't exist. Your API docs say "TODO." Sound familiar? I got tired of this cycle, so I built DocuPilot — a GitHub App that automatically generates and updates your documentation every time you push code. The Problem As developers, we're great at shipping features but terrible at keeping docs up to date. It's not that we don't care — it's that there's always something more urgent. The result? Users struggle to use our projects. Contributors can't onboard. And we spend hours before every release frantically updating docs. The Solution DocuPilot takes a different approach: install once, never think about docs again. Install the PushDocs GitHub App on your repo Push code as you normally would DocuPilot analyzes your changes using AI (Claude API) You get a Pull Request with updated documentation That's it. No config files. No CLI tools. No CI/CD pipeline changes. What It Generates README updates — Feature descriptions, usage exampl

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