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Coding · Intermediate

# Draft documentation for an existing codebase

A starter map of a repository for new contributors.

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askYou name a repo
- ThenReads folders and modules
- ResultOne paragraph per area

Have a bot walk a repository and draft short explanations of each folder and main module so new contributors have a starting map.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

```
Read the repository and write one short paragraph per top-level folder and main module: what it does and where to start. Mark anything you inferred rather than read.
```

CopyMuse CodeSetup sketch

```
Run muse in the project directory, then ask: Read the repository and write one short paragraph per top-level folder and main module: what it does and where to start. Mark anything you inferred rather than read.
```

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Muse Code is Meta's terminal and CI coding agent; its docs describe planning, editing and running commands with approvals. [Docs ](https://dev.meta.ai/docs/muse-code)

## Tools it uses

GitHubDocs

## Works with

BotBentoMuse Code

## Tags

- documentation
- codebase
- onboarding

## Source

[Autodoc: Toolkit for auto-generating codebase documentation using LLMs](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297766)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-14

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

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