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Coding · Intermediate

# Formatting technical runbooks and bug reports

Turn terminal outputs and notes into styled documents with readable preview links

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

- When you askSubmit diagnostic logs
- ThenCompile styled markdown report
- ResultPresent preview link for approval

When troubleshooting issues or analyzing codebase logs, raw markdown files can be tedious to read and share across teams. This bot compiles command outputs, diagnostics, and steps into structured markdown files with styling headers, then generates browser-ready preview links for team review.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

```
When given investigation logs, error traces, or shell commands, organize them into a clean markdown document. Add necessary metadata headers for styling, code blocks for commands, and visual tables or charts where applicable. Generate a local document preview using your terminal tools. Always ask for user confirmation before sharing the preview link or sending documents to any shared channels.
```

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## Tools it uses

TerminalBrowserDocs

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- markdown
- debugging
- documentation
- terminal

## Source

[Show HN: SmallDocs – Markdown without the frustrations](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-16

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

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-16 · Updated 2026-10-16 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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