Gitbook AGENT
An AI collaborator that proactively keeps documentation updated
GitBook’s AI documentation agent identifies missing or outdated content, drafts improvements, and helps your team keep product knowledge aligned with real user needs — without adding extra steps to your workflow
Tools
Meet your proactive AI documentation partner
GitBook Agent works alongside your team, supporting existing workflows and making ongoing maintenance easier
FEATURES
A documentation engine
built for continuous improvement
GitBook Agent learns from your product and your users so your documentation stays current, useful, and dependable
Help users faster — and give your team time back
GitBook Agent cuts the busywork so your team can keep moving forward
Features
Keep the knowledge behind every AI answer accurate
AI assistants, coding agents, and search tools already rely on your documentation to understand your product. GitBook Agent helps keep that source knowledge accurate, so users and agents are less likely to receive outdated or incomplete answers.
FAQs
What is an AI documentation agent?
An AI documentation agent helps teams create and maintain documentation by identifying missing, outdated, or unclear information and suggesting improvements. GitBook Agent goes further by using real product and user signals to propose targeted changes within your existing review workflow.
How does GitBook Agent keep documentation up to date?
GitBook Agent analyzes sources such as support conversations, GitHub Issues, Slack, and Linear. When it identifies recurring questions or outdated information, it can draft a documentation change for your team to review and publish.
Does GitBook Agent publish changes automatically?
No — GitBook Agent works within GitBook’s collaborative publishing workflow rather than replacing it. It can draft and implement changes, but technical writers, engineers, and support teams can refine, review, and approve them before they’re published.
Can GitBook Agent follow our style guide?
Yes. You can set up a style guide in GitBook for an individual docs site or all your published sites. GitBook Agent uses this style guide, along with the context of your documentation and surrounding pages, when writing or reviewing content.
With a style guide enabled, the Agent can identify when specific rules are being violated and fix them automatically, or flag them for you to review.
How does GitBook Agent improve AI answers?
Yes, because AI systems depend on accurate source knowledge. By helping your team identify and correct missing or outdated documentation, GitBook Agent improves the information available to GitBook Assistant and other AI tools that access your content.
How is GitBook Agent different from an AI documentation writer?
A typical AI writer generates content from a prompt. GitBook Agent offers this option, but it also works continuously alongside your team: it can use support and product signals to identify what needs updating, draft targeted changes, review content for accuracy and structure, and check it against your style guide.
Can GitBook Agent work from tools like Slack, GitHub, and Linear?
Yes. GitBook Agent can work through connected channels including GitHub, Linear, and Slack. Teams can use those workflows to ask questions, surface context, and turn conversations or issues into proposed documentation changes.
