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Check if recent changes need documentation updates and suggest which docs to update.

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Check Documentation Updates

Analyzes recent git commits to determine if documentation needs updating.

When to Use

  • After completing a feature/refactor
  • Before creating a PR
  • When user asks "should I update docs?"
  • Periodically during long sessions

How It Works

  1. Analyze Recent Commits

    • Get commits since specified SHA or last N commits
    • Extract changed files in backend/app/ and frontend/src/
    • Categorize change size (small/medium/large)

  2. Map Files to Documentation

    • backend/app/api/ → docs/content/{en,uk}/api/
    • backend/app/models/ → docs/content/{en,uk}/architecture/models.md
    • backend/app/services/ → docs/content/{en,uk}/architecture/backend-services.md
    • backend/app/agents/ → docs/content/{en,uk}/architecture/agent-system.md
    • backend/app/tasks/ → docs/content/{en,uk}/architecture/background-tasks.md
    • frontend/src/ → docs/content/{en,uk}/frontend/architecture.md

  3. Categorize Change Size

    • Small: ≤2 files, no feat/refactor commits
    • Medium: 3-5 files OR refactor commits
    • Large: 6+ files OR feat commits OR breaking changes

  4. Generate Report

    • List affected areas (API routes, models, services, agents, pages, features, components)
    • Suggest documentation files to review/update
    • Mark missing docs with ⚠️
    • Provide /docs command hint for missing files

Usage

Default (last 5 commits):

Use the check-docs skill

Specific range:

Use the check-docs skill to check commits since abc123

Check last N commits:

Use the check-docs skill to check last 10 commits

Output Format

📚 Documentation Update Check

Analyzed: 3 commits, 7 files changed

Change size: medium (based on 5 files, 1 refactor commit)

Backend changes (4 files):
  - API routes (2 files)
  - Database models (2 files)

Frontend changes (3 files):
  - Pages (1 file)
  - Components (2 files)

Suggested documentation to review/update:
  ✅ docs/content/{en,uk}/api/knowledge.md
  ✅ docs/content/{en,uk}/architecture/models.md
  ⚠️ MISSING docs/content/{en,uk}/frontend/components.md

💡 Use /docs to create missing documentation

Implementation Notes

  • Use git log and git diff for analysis
  • Don't trigger on doc-only commits
  • Check if suggested docs exist (mark missing ones)
  • Keep it simple - just analysis and suggestions, no automatic updates

Integration with /docs Command

After running this skill, user can use /docs command to update specific files:

/docs docs/content/en/architecture/models.md

Or let /docs figure out the path:

/docs update models documentation