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14 pointsby byhong03today at 4:53 PM4 commentsview on HN

It’s well known at this point that documentation needs to be optimized for AI agents - we’re all pointing our Claude Code / Codex / Pi agents at documentation, and expecting the models to figure out how to implement a product.

This, however, changes the entire optimization problem when writing documentation. Good documentation now becomes more objective - you are solving the very concrete problem: can a dumb harness running the dumbest model implement this reliably?

Humans can typically compensate for inconsistent terminology or scattered context across pages, but for agents, this often will waste time (or even just completely confuse the agent).

We’ve been building a small project around this called dari-docs: users can upload their documentation via website or CLI and run agents across different providers to see where they falter. You can upload your documentation, feed a list of tasks, and ask agents with varying intelligence / cost levels to complete those tasks in parallel. When a run is complete, you get back a list feedback markdown files from each agent run and can apply changes based on agent feedback.

Managed service: https://optimize.dari.dev/, repo link: https://github.com/mupt-ai/dari-docs

The agents actually try to use the product end-to-end. They search through the docs, follow instructions, run commands, try examples, and attempt to debug failures. Importantly, this is not a static LLM review of the documentation. The agents are actually attempting the integration.

You can also enable live verification with test credentials so the agents can actually verify workflows against real APIs:

  dari-docs check . --live-verify --secret-env DARI_TEST_API_KEY --task "Create a checkout session"
If you’re building a CLI, API, MCP server, or SDK and actively maintaining docs for humans or agents, we’d love to work with you and test this on real workflows!

Comments

slipheentoday at 10:07 PM

I read the GitHub repo, but still don't quite understand-

What exactly is the advantage of doing this vs just running a prompt in my existing coding agent?

I don't understand why this is a harness/project vs just for example, a skill?

I'm confident there's a good reason, I just don't understand.

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anish_mtoday at 10:27 PM

Nice! I want to use this for my product at ngram.com. Btw, I also created a sample teaser video: https://www.ngram.com/watch/dari-explainer-video-brief-d7991.... Feel free to use it on your social media

Aleesha_hackertoday at 9:20 PM

Cool approach actually letting agents test the docs makes debugging way more practical than just reading them

pquattrotoday at 6:13 PM

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