AI chat for documentation

[okohll]

Has anyone had the idea of creating an AI chat function that's trained on your docsy site, e.g. with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)? (I can't find anything in this github).

Something like https://dev.to/nichnarmada/introducing-docusaurus-plugin-chat-page-an-ai-powered-chat-interface-for-your-documentation-3ed4

I've not tried that by the way, so don't know how well or not it works.

I don't want to start any pro-AI / anti-AI war, no problem if there's an aversion to it for this use, but I'd probably try it out if it were available. I have done some simple experiments myself with feeding an AI the content and they've not been particularly successful.

[chalin]

There is interest in AI-assisted chat/search for docs, and creating agent-friendly docs. I've started looking into the latter:

• Add support for agent-friendly content generation, phase 1 #2596

I'll use that issue to explore what this might look like for Docsy, including whether a RAG-based approach could work well for Docsy sites and what the tradeoffs would be. Thanks for raising this and sharing the example, it’s helpful to see how other projects are approaching this.

[chalin]

Meta tracker:

• [tracker] Improve support for AI-agent doc consumption #2614