Repo Wikis

What Are Repo Wikis?

When you connect a repository to ProdE and the Knowledge Layer finishes processing, ProdE automatically generates a detailed wiki for that repository, derived entirely from your source code.

No manual effort is required. ProdE treats your code as the single source of truth and transforms it into a structured, browsable knowledge base.

What's Inside a Repo Wiki?

Each wiki is tailored to the repository it describes. Every repository is documented to cover both sides of the codebase:

• Technical details of how the system is built: architecture, components, modules, and the way they fit together.
• Product and feature details of what the system does: the capabilities it provides and the behavior users experience.

To make this easy to follow, each wiki includes:

• Mermaid diagrams that visualize architecture, flows, and relationships between components.
• References that ground the documentation in the actual code.
• Clickable symbols and files. Relevant code symbols and file references in the documentation can be clicked to view their content directly, so you can move from a description straight to the implementation.

The content is organized as a navigable hierarchy of pages. The exact structure varies by repository, since ProdE adapts the hierarchy to match the actual features and organization of your codebase.

How to Access Repo Wikis

1. Navigate to Documentation in the ProdE sidebar
2. You'll see a grid of all repositories that have generated documentation, showing the repository name, source, and number of documentation pages
3. Select a repository to open its wiki

Once inside a repository's wiki, you'll see:

• A sidebar on the left showing the documentation hierarchy. Click any node to navigate to that page
• The documentation content on the right, including its diagrams, references, and clickable symbols and files

The wiki is available as soon as the Knowledge Layer finishes processing the repository.

Repo Wikis in ProdE Chat and MCP

Repo Wiki content doesn't just live in the Documentation page. It also powers ProdE Chat and ProdE's MCP server. When you ask questions about your code, ProdE uses the wiki content to provide richer, more accurate answers grounded in your actual codebase.

Automatic Updates

Repo Wikis stay current with your codebase. Each repository is updated automatically based on new changes pushed to its product branch (the tracked branch), so the documentation reflects the latest state of the code.

Update frequency varies by team, ranging from daily to once a week. Check with the ProdE team for the exact value configured for your team. By default, repositories are updated once every 7 days.

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