Just Enough AI, Part 1: AI for Search and Discoverability

Technical writers contribute institutional knowledge, product-testing experience, and user understanding that generative AI cannot fully replace, but AI can supplement documentation workflows when used thoughtfully. The first installment of a three-part series focuses on improving documentation search and discoverability, areas where AI performs well by summarizing, structuring, and retrieving information across large bodies of content. It recommends AI-powered documentation search tools such as ReadMe’s Ask AI, which can be trained on a company’s content, configured for tone, detail, models, and restricted topics, and monitored through question and response analytics. The piece also emphasizes making documentation accessible to AI systems through agent-friendly features such as LLMs.txt files, link headers, agent skills, and direct MCP server connections for coding tools, helping those tools use accurate API details rather than inferred information.

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