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Observed arrival · 2026-09-21

Etchblok Maps the Codebase Before It Writes the Docs

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Etchblok uses AI agents and a deterministic codebase map to generate architecture guides, API references, tutorials, and other technical documentation.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-21 issue.
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Engineering teams maintaining complex Python codebases
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Public examples cover Flyte SDK, FastAPI, and Flask, including a reported 400K-line FastAPI codebase.

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The homepage describes a two-stage system: first build an AST-, import-, and call-graph-based map of the repository, then have agents write documentation against that map. Its public examples span Flyte SDK, FastAPI, and Flask, with the site reporting coverage from roughly 40K to 400K lines of Python. Python is supported now according to the page; JavaScript and TypeScript are described as next.

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