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Documentation Automation Model

Summary​

Automation detects change, proposes affected documentation, maintains machine-readable relationships, and generates reviewable drafts. It does not approve, publish, or disclose content autonomously.

Audience​

  • Documentation tooling, engineering productivity, QA, DevOps, architecture, and security teams

Reference Content​

Automation capabilities​

  • Documentation impact analysis: map changed source artifacts to documented nodes and traverse used_by relationships.
  • Affected-page detection: rank pages by direct source, service, API, event, database, UI, and dependency relationships.
  • Automatic draft generation: create evidence-linked drafts with documentation_status: draft only.
  • Dependency graph updates: propose new, changed, or removed edges and require owner review for semantic changes.
  • Future GitHub automation: comment on pull requests, create documentation tasks, and run quality gates without auto-merging or publishing.
  • Future MCP integration: expose authorized source and documentation graph context with visibility-aware access controls.
  • Future OpenAPI generation: generate API reference from approved specifications and retain generator/version provenance.
  • Future event catalog: generate contract reference from versioned event definitions and verified producer/consumer inventories.

Controls​

  • Preserve visibility and ownership metadata.
  • Never include secrets, personal data, restricted source, or inaccessible graph metadata in lower-visibility outputs.
  • Record source revision, generator, time, and affected nodes.
  • Treat deletion and deprecation as review-requiring changes.
  • Require all existing validation and build gates before review.
  • Never auto-approve, auto-publish, commit, deploy, or notify external audiences without explicit authorization.

See Also​

Keywords​

  • Impact analysis
  • Documentation generation
  • Graph automation

Revision Information​

  • Status: Draft
  • Last reviewed: 2026-07-15
  • Review cycle: Quarterly