Aether/docs

v0.1.2 โ€” Docs for Humans, Too

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ July 2026

Until now, /genesis produced docs tuned for AI assistants โ€” accurate and traceable, but they read like a file index. This release adds a parallel set of human-facing guides, generated with their own writing contract.

โœจ Features

  • Human guides โ€” every project now also gets a guides/ section written for people, not machines:
    • guides/getting-started.md โ€” install, configure, run, verify (always generated)
    • guides/onboarding.md โ€” the mental model, why the project exists, and how to make your first change (always generated)
    • guides/contributing.md โ€” conventions, quality gates, and how to submit a change (only when there's a real contribution process to document)
  • Docs index โ€” a docs/README.md landing page is now generated, grouping every doc by section (Guides, Architecture, Reference, AI Context) with links, so the knowledge base reads as a structured site instead of loose files
  • The planner now knows about the guides and decides when contributing is warranted

๐Ÿ—๏ธ Under the hood

  • The human guides use a different prompt contract than the AI docs. Both keep the same anti-hallucination floor โ€” never invent a technology, file, or command, and never present a roadmap item as already built but the guides invert the writing rules: explain and connect instead of cataloguing, and lead with the why. When your repo already has author-written context (a README, CONTEXT.md, CONTRIBUTING.md), the guides lean on it for intent instead of distrusting it, but there's nothing new you need to write; without those files, the guides are still generated from the code
  • The docs index is built deterministically (no LLM call), so it never drifts from the docs actually generated