doc-audit

To audit Markdown documentation for developer experience quality, scan your repository files to evaluate structure, language simplicity, and content relevance against ten quality categories. This generates a structured report with severity levels and suggested fixes to resolve documentation rot.

Documentation rot is the gradual degradation of project docs containing stale information and poor structural integrity. You check for it by running automated quality checks on Markdown files to evaluate length, language simplicity, and visual communication, producing actionable improvement reports.

Yes, you need git and standard shell utilities installed in your environment to run an automated documentation audit. These dependencies are required to scan Markdown files within your repository and generate the structured improvement reports.

Yes, you can check if your technical writing follows the Diátaxis framework automatically by auditing your Markdown files. The audit evaluates documentation against specific categories to ensure your README and technical guides are concise and align with the framework.

The best way to ensure README clarity before a major release is to perform a systematic documentation audit. Scanning Markdown files evaluates structural integrity, language simplicity, and content relevance, generating a report with severity levels and suggested fixes for concise, clear documentation.

During a Markdown documentation audit, files are evaluated against ten categories including length, language simplicity, and visual communication. These automated quality checks identify documentation rot and generate actionable reports with severity levels and suggested fixes.