help-docs

Documents

Discover help documentation work from operately git history. Use when the user asks to audit what needs documenting since a release, tag, or SHA, or to identify documentation gaps from code changes. Requires a baseline SHA or tag as input.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/operately/operately/blob/HEAD/.agents/skills/help-docs/SKILL.md

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Help Docs — Change Discovery

Scan git history since a baseline, identify user-facing product changes, and infer how they work from source code.

This skill covers finding what needs documenting and how the feature works in the UI.

For git commands, path watchlists, filter heuristics, code research guidance, and what to capture per candidate, read reference.md.

Input

Required: baseline SHA or tag (e.g. v1.6.0, abc1234).

If the user does not provide a baseline, ask before proceeding.

Scope

Work in the operately repo (this repo).
Quote UI labels exactly from source; do not polish copy.
Optionally cross-check the sibling operately-website repo for existing help pages when it is available on disk.

Workflow

1. Resolve baseline

Validate the SHA or tag exists. Record the range baseline..HEAD, HEAD SHA, and commit count.

2. Collect changes

List merge commits and PR titles in the range. Prefer PR titles over individual commit messages — PR titles use the feat: / fix: / chore: / docs: prefixes.

Use the git recipes in reference.md to gather commits and diffs.

3. Filter to user-facing

Keep changes that affect what users see or do in the app. Drop internal-only work (refactors, CI, tests-only, backend-only, migrations without UI impact). See reference.md — Filter heuristics.

4. Cluster related commits

Group commits by feature area. Multiple PRs for one capability (e.g. billing page + checkout + cancellation) become a single item.

5. Research each cluster in code

For each cluster, read the relevant source to infer behavior:

app/assets/js/pages/ — screens and navigation
app/assets/js/features/ — feature UI and flows
turboui/src/ — shared components
app/assets/js/routes/paths.tsx — new or removed routes
app/test/features/ — user flows (for validation, not as doc content)
specs/ — product intent for major features

Extract entry points, UI labels, step order, permissions, and edge cases. See reference.md — Code research map.

6. Classify and document each cluster

For each cluster, assign a doc action and capture the findings listed in reference.md — What to capture.

Action	When
`new_page`	New user capability with no matching help page
`update_page`	Existing flow, labels, or navigation changed
`api_auto_sync`	External API surface changed — CI publishes to `/help/api/`
`skip`	Internal-only; no user-facing doc impact

When operately-website is available, check src/config/helpCenter.js and src/content/docs/help/ to decide between new_page and update_page.

Also record excluded commits and why they were skipped.

Definition of Done

Before finishing, verify:

Baseline validated; range and commit count stated
Internal-only changes listed with reasons
Each candidate cites source commit SHAs and changed file paths
UI labels quoted exactly from code
Existing help pages referenced when the website repo is available