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It's Dosu Drop day! 🎉 New year, new docs. This month is about updates. Reviewing, approving, and keeping your agents current. ✅ Accept or decline doc updates. Last month, we shipped doc review diffs. Now you can explicitly approve or decline Dosu's proposed changes before they publish. Opt in by disabling "Auto Publish" in your Space settings. 📜 Improved version history. The new diff viewer highlights markdown structure, making it easier to see what changed at a glance. 🔌 MCP Server preview. Anthropic's State of AI Agents Report found that poor data quality and limited integration are the biggest challenges for companies using agents. Our MCP Server addresses both. Enterprise customers can activate it now. Self-serve coming soon. 🔄 External docs sync. One of our most-requested features. We have preliminary implementations for Notion, Confluence, and GitHub markdown, and we're looking for design partners. We also published a deep dive on how open source projects are preparing for AI contributions. tldraw closed external PRs entirely. goose taught Copilot to review like a maintainer. Both made the right call. Check out the full Dosu Drop: https://lnkd.in/gJvxecX7

"A deeper issue is that AI broke the economics of contribution. Generating a PR now takes seconds, but reviewing one still can take hours. The effort to produce a contribution no longer signals the effort required to review it." Resharing Taylor D.'s blog post here on Dosu's first ever Linkedin Newsletter, "Dosu's Diary and Digest"!

Important conversation happening in OSS right now kicked off by tldraw decision to restrict users from making new PRs to their project. Coding agents have made it almost trivial to make a working PR to any GitHub repository, but just because it works, doesn't mean it is right. Taylor D. does a great job of breaking down how other OSS projects have responded to the influx of AI generated PRs. The tldr; is to add make sure you have context files in place (AGENTS.md, documentation, skills, etc). If you're thinking about how to make your internal or OSS project AI-agent ready, I would love to chat. Feel free to DM me.

Two open source maintainers hit the same wall this year. One started auto-closing all external PRs. The other spent weeks teaching AI tools how to behave. BOTH made the right call for their projects. A deeper issue is that AI broke the economics of contribution. Generating a PR now takes seconds, but reviewing one still can take hours. The effort to produce a contribution no longer signals the effort required to review it. What are maintainers at tldraw, goose, curl, Django, and Ghostty figuring out about preparing their projects for AI contributors? Check out the article to find out! https://lnkd.in/gCEigUDB

It's Dosu Drop Day! ❄️ December's theme is making your docs visible, both for you and everyone who needs them. 👀 Review flow improvements: You can now see line-by-line diffs of every change Dosu makes to your documentation. We also cleaned up the UI and filtered out threads where Dosu wasn't active, so you're only looking at what matters. 🖼️ Image uploads: The docs editor now supports images. Drag and drop, paste from the clipboard, or use the upload button. ✍️ Style Guidelines: Last month, we shipped custom Response Guidelines for how Dosu chats. Now you can set Style Guidelines for how Dosu writes documentation, whether you need to address the audience, structure, tone, or more. 🔗 Shareable links: Docs in Public Spaces now have a share button. One click, public link, send it wherever. We also published a case study on our work with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. If you're curious what it looks like to give an entire ecosystem a way to ask anything, it's worth a read: https://lnkd.in/gCp_DtKp Looking ahead: Our top priority is getting Dosu's knowledge base into more places, especially as context for coding agents. We're also shipping Notion, Coda, and GitLab integrations early next year. Thank you for an incredible 2025! We'll see you in the new year (remember...new you, new docs)! https://lnkd.in/gY_Q8ZKr

At KubeCon Atlanta, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) launched ask.cncf.io with Dosu - a new way for the cloud native community to find answers across an ecosystem of 200+ projects. Over four days, community members asked 765 questions in multiple languages, covering everything from "How do I become a CNCF Ambassador?" to complex architectural comparisons to "Where's room C111?" We were surprised by both the volume of questions and the patterns that emerged. People ready to contribute but unsure where to show up. Practitioners comparing tools for production decisions. First-time attendees trying to make sense of hundreds of sessions. A big thank you to Jorge Castro, Jeffrey Sica, Bob Killen, and the whole CNCF team for creating an experience that helps people navigate their cloud native journey, whether navigating a conference hallway or choosing between CNI implementations for a production cluster. Check out the full story, including what was learned and what's next. https://lnkd.in/gCp_DtKp

Really enjoyed reading the recent WSJ interview with Sarah Friar (OpenAI’s CFO) on how memory and context provides some of the most value to customers. Before starting Dosu, I was the memory and context layer that answered all the questions from my engineering and PM teams for why things were built the way they were. Although not specifically engineering related, I still loved reading how OpenAI’s finance team uses AI agents for information retrieval. Instead of team members spending hours doing detective work, they can jump straight into strategic conversations. But this glosses over the most common challenge in adopting AI: internal knowledge is messy. Conflicting threads, outdated docs, siloed knowledge that never got written down. Even the smartest AI will reason incorrectly if you feed it contradictory or incomplete information. That’s why we are tackling this problem at Dosu, so all teams can get the same productivity gains as OpenAI. Dosu does the heavy lifting of continually curating internal knowledge and keeping it up-to-date as code changes. By increasing knowledge coverage and quality, people and AI agents alike can quickly find out what happened and why it happened and know they can trust the results. Here is the article if you haven't read it: https://lnkd.in/gYDCFfjE

It's Dosu Drop day! 🍂 This month, we want to start with gratitude. Whether you've been with Dosu from the beginning or are just getting started, THANK YOU! To show our appreciation, we shipped some features we think you'll love. 📋 Changelogs: Ask Dosu to write a changelog for any time period from any channel. Unlike living docs, these are fixed snapshots perfect for catching up after time off. 🎛️ Custom Response Guidelines: We like our team meals buffet style, where you can pile up your favorites, and skip what you don't want. Now Dosu works the same way. Don't like bullet points? Love Mermaid diagrams? Customize how Dosu responds, channel by channel. 🔗 Send to Cursor: Our focus is context, not coding. One click sends any Dosu answer to Cursor, so deep project knowledge supercharges your code generation workflow. 🏢 Custom Organization Logos: Bring your branding to Public Spaces (or make Private ones feel more like home). 📱 Improved Mobile Support: Travel plans? Take Dosu with you. We reworked the mobile UX so you can ask questions, read docs, or generate new ones on the go. 📬 Weekly Digest: See what your team is up to and how Dosu is helping out, delivered to your inbox. We're also thrilled to share that ask.cncf.io just launched during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA! Dosu powers the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)'s knowledge base for learning about CNCF projects, governance, events, and other ways to contribute. It's a great example of Custom Org Logos in action. For more details, check out the full blog post here: https://lnkd.in/ga4PfxzR #AI #Documentation #DeveloperTools #KubeCon #CloudNative

Do you think he will like my outfit? I put it on especially for him 😂 Today Devin Stein, Founder of Dosu, will be joining me on the “Inspired to Build: Conversations with AI Builders” Livestream and I put on this shirt 🫶 Will you see it on the livestream today? Yes, if my basement isn’t too cold 🥶 My home office is in my basement 😉 👉 Do you think Devin will appreciate it? 🤓 P.S. Who else should come on my livestream? 👀