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Documentation-generator projects on GitHub

Generators that turn specs and code into API documentation.

As of , the most-starred Documentation-generator projects on GitHub are docusaurus (66.5K stars), redoc (26K stars) and mdBook (22.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 10 Documentation-generator repositories with 173.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Skill_Seekers, with +12 stars in a day.

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173.5KStars in total
+52Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+12

Skill_Seekers

yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers · ★ 15.2K

Skill Seekers converts documentation sites, GitHub repos, PDFs, videos, notebooks, wikis and other sources into structured knowledge assets, ready to power AI Skills (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI), RAG pipelines, and AI coding assistants.

+10

deepwiki-open

AsyncFuncAI/deepwiki-open · ★ 18.2K

DeepWiki-Open is an open-source, AI-powered wiki generator: give it a GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repository and it automatically builds a beautiful, interactive wiki explaining how the code works.

+10

SoftwareCopyright-Skill

Fokkyp/SoftwareCopyright-Skill · ★ 5.9K

This is a coding-agent Skill that automatically generates a full set of Chinese software copyright (软件著作权) registration documents — operation manual, source-code excerpts, and application-form info — by analyzing your local project, so you don't need to pay a filing service.

+8

docusaurus

facebook/docusaurus · ★ 66.5K

Docusaurus is a tool for building, deploying, and maintaining open source project websites easily, handling the website build process so you can focus on your project.

The all-time top

10 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · facebook/docusaurus

    docusaurus

    Docusaurus is a tool for building, deploying, and maintaining open source project websites easily, handling the website build process so you can focus on your project.

    66.5K
  2. #2 · Redocly/redoc

    redoc

    Redoc is an open-source tool that generates API reference documentation from OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) definitions — it turns your spec file into a polished, readable reference page.

    26K
  3. #3 · rust-lang/mdBook

    mdBook

    mdBook is a command-line utility that turns a folder of Markdown files into a modern online book — a static website you can host anywhere. Think Gitbook, but written in Rust.

    22.2K
  1. 4

    deepwiki-open

    18.2KAsyncFuncAI/deepwiki-open · Python

    DeepWiki-Open is an open-source, AI-powered wiki generator: give it a GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repository and it automatically builds a beautiful, interactive wiki explaining how the code works.

  2. 5

    Skill_Seekers

    15.2Kyusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers · Python

    Skill Seekers converts documentation sites, GitHub repos, PDFs, videos, notebooks, wikis and other sources into structured knowledge assets, ready to power AI Skills (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI), RAG pipelines, and AI coding assistants.

  3. 6

    swag

    13.1Kswaggo/swag · Go

    Swag is a CLI tool for Go that turns annotation comments in your source code into Swagger 2.0 API documentation. It ships integrations for popular Go web frameworks, so the docs can be served from your app via Swagger UI.

  4. 7

    SoftwareCopyright-Skill

    5.9KFokkyp/SoftwareCopyright-Skill · Python

    This is a coding-agent Skill that automatically generates a full set of Chinese software copyright (软件著作权) registration documents — operation manual, source-code excerpts, and application-form info — by analyzing your local project, so you don't need to pay a filing service.

  5. 8

    scanopy

    5.9Kscanopy/scanopy · Rust

    Scanopy is a self-hosted tool that automatically scans your network and keeps network diagrams and documentation continuously up to date instead of you drawing them manually.

  6. 9

    vibex

    390Raja0sama/vibex · JavaScript

    vibeX reads your Prisma schema, OpenAPI document, GraphQL SDL, or the source code itself and generates five kinds of architecture diagrams (ERD, C4, API endpoints, lifecycle, service links) plus checkable documentation, packaged as one standalone HTML file with no server.

  7. 10

    software-certificate-skill

    164IvanCodesDev/software-certificate-skill · Python

    A Skill that automatically generates the materials needed to register a Chinese software copyright (软件著作权): an application form, user manual, technical documentation, and code material, built from real analysis of your project and delivered as checked DOCX and PDF files.

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