Platform & Builders

Documentation Roadmap

A working plan for how the docs are organized now, what tracks exist, and what should be added next

Documentation Roadmap

This page turns the site’s documentation strategy into a concrete plan.

The goal is to keep the docs useful for two very different audiences at the same time:

  • people who need help finding services, support, events, and opportunities
  • builders and maintainers who need stable technical reference, contribution workflow, and discovery guidance

Documentation tracks

The docs now fit into five working tracks:

1. Getting started

Use this track for first-time orientation and broad platform understanding.

2. Community and public use

Use this track for people looking for stories, events, jobs, resources, or ways to participate.

  • community guides
  • service access guides
  • search and support help

3. Platform and builders

Use this track for developers, researchers, agent builders, and technical partners.

4. Policies and contribution

Use this track for privacy rules, publishing expectations, and update workflow.

5. Reference pages

Use this track for stable supporting material that is useful across the site.

  • photo gallery guidance
  • source notes and credits
  • public API and agent reference pages
  • site map style pages

What changed in this pass

This docs pass adds three pieces that were missing:

  • a roadmap page so the documentation structure is explicit instead of implied
  • a platform principles page so the public API, page guidance, and discovery work have a shared rationale
  • a documentation contributions page so maintainers know where docs live and how to update them safely

Immediate priorities

These should stay visible and up to date because they are the main front doors for technical users:

Next pages to add

The next useful additions are:

  • an API changes or versioning page that explains compatibility expectations
  • an API errors and response behavior page with common failure patterns
  • an editorial standards page for tone, titles, dates, attribution, and source quality

Maintenance rules

  • Keep one clear purpose per page.
  • Prefer short pages that link to each other over one page that tries to explain everything.
  • Treat public user guidance and builder guidance as separate tracks.
  • Keep examples honest to the current implementation. Do not document routes or auth flows that do not exist.
  • Update related links when a new page becomes a canonical starting point.

Where to start

Related guides

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