Docsy, an open source theme for the Hugo static site generator used to build technical documentation sites, is joining the Linux Foundation. Erin McKean, a senior developer relations engineer at Google and a member of the Docsy steering committee, announced the move in a keynote at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit Europe in Prague. Google first announced Docsy in 2019, and by the end of 2024 about 2,200 projects were using it, including Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, gRPC and Jaeger under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. McKean said the move brings the project closer to the communities already using it, and focused on AI agents as a new consumer of technical documentation. Docsy has added opt-in, experimental features to serve them, including a Markdown copy of each page and an llms.txt index introduced in version 0.15.0 in May, an upgrade guide written so it could also be followed by an AI assistant in version 0.16.0 in July, and a hidden directive pointing visiting agents to a site’s llms.txt index in version 0.17.0 in August. The roadmap includes agent-friendly documentation scores so maintainers can measure how easily AI tools find, navigate and consume their docs, which McKean said should also reduce the routine questions that land on maintainers.
What's up, Docsy? Google's docs project joins the Linux Foundation as AI agents become readers
Docsy, an open source theme for the Hugo static site generator used to build technical documentation sites, is joining the Linux Foundation. Erin McKean, a senior developer relations engineer at Google and a member of the Docsy steering committee, announced the move in a keynote at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit Europe in Prague. Google first announced Docsy in 2019, and by the end of 2024 about 2,200 projects were using it, including Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, gRPC and Jaeger under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. McKean said the move brings the project closer to the communities already using it, and focused on AI agents as a new consumer of technical documentation. Docsy has added opt-in, experimental features to serve them, including a Markdown copy of each page and an llms.txt index introduced in version 0.15.0 in May, an upgrade guide written so it could also be followed by an AI assistant in version 0.16.0 in July, and a hidden directive pointing visiting agents to a site's llms.txt index in version 0.17.0 in August. The roadmap includes agent-friendly documentation scores so maintainers can measure how easily AI tools find, navigate and consume their docs, which McKean said should also reduce the routine questions that land on maintainers.
Source: The New Stack