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The New GitBook
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Documentation platform for publishing accurate, AI-ready docs sites, with Git sync and an MCP server for AI tools.
653K visits/mo2.9K saves
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CodebaseChat
✓ verifiedFreemium
Connects Git repos to answer plain-English questions about your code with file references and dependency context.
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DocuWriter.ai
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AI tool that connects to your repo and auto-generates code, API and UML documentation, keeping it in sync as code changes.
71K visits/mo26K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Starter: $0 (1 repo, 50 questions/mo)
Pro: $12/mo (10 repos, unlimited questions)
Team: $49/mo (unlimited repos, SSO)
No public pricing
Starter: $20/mo (50 credits)
Professional: $49/mo (200 AI documents)
Enterprise: $129/mo (500 AI documents)
Unlimited: $299/mo (unlimited AI documents)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Publish structured documentation sites
- ✦Git sync for docs-as-code workflows
- ✦AI setup agent to build and import docs
- ✦GitBook MCP server for AI access
- ✦Enterprise controls
- ✦Free tier to start
- ✦Natural-language search across a codebase
- ✦Architecture explanations and dependency graphs
- ✦Bug hunter that traces issues across files
- ✦AI code review before opening a PR
- ✦Automatic documentation generation
- ✦Multi-repo support via OAuth
- ✦AI-powered summary of GitHub activities
- ✦Weekly insights into your GitHub contributions
- ✦AI-generated code, API and UML documentation
- ✦Repo integrations: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps
- ✦Autopilot agent that detects documentation drift
- ✦OpenAPI/Swagger spec generation
- ✦MCP server access for AI tools
- ✦Self-hosted option
Use cases
- →Publish product and API documentation
- →Maintain docs-as-code with Git sync
- →Make docs consumable by AI assistants
- →Import existing docs into a hosted site
- →Onboarding new engineers faster
- →Answering questions about a codebase
- →Understanding how components connect
- →Finding and diagnosing bugs
- →Generating documentation from code
- →Stay informed about your GitHub contributions and progress.
- →Track your development activities and identify areas for improvement.
- →Documenting legacy codebases
- →Onboarding new engineers
- →Generating and syncing API references
- →Producing docs for open-source projects and SDKs
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