document-multiple-repository

What This Skill Does

The document-multiple-repository skill is an automated documentation engine designed for complex, multi-repo software ecosystems. Instead of documenting files in isolation, it scans a root directory, identifies related git repositories (including codebases, microservices, and specialized wikis), and synthesizes a cohesive architectural view. It acts as an expert technical writer, crawling your local filesystem to generate standardized Markdown documentation including system-wide architecture overviews, repository maps, deployment guides, and synthesized wiki summaries. The process respects the integrity of your original source code by reading files without modification or execution, ensuring it is a safe documentation-only utility.

Installation

To install this skill, use the OpenClaw CLI provided with your environment: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/dannyxyz22/document-multiple-repository Once installed, ensure your agent has read permissions to the directory where your repositories are stored.

Use Cases

• Onboarding New Engineers: Quickly generate a high-level architectural overview and process guide for teams struggling with fragmented project documentation.
• Legacy System Analysis: Understand the relationship between microservices and their corresponding wiki documentation in systems where tribal knowledge has become siloed.
• Technical Due Diligence: Create a summary of technical debt, coding standards, and deployment processes across dozens of disparate repositories.
• Consolidated Wiki Sync: Merge scattered READMEs and local wiki files into a professional, navigable structure for internal stakeholders.

Example Prompts

1. "Run skill document-multiple-repository on /home/user/projects/ecommerce-suite/ to generate an architecture report for the entire system."
2. "Update the documentation for my microservices platform located in ~/code/micro-arch and output the results to ~/docs/compiled-v1."
3. "Scan all repositories in /var/www/apps and build a repository map identifying core backend services versus frontend documentation."

Tips & Limitations

• Tip: Ensure your wiki repositories follow the naming convention of ending in .wiki to allow the scanner to correctly categorize them as documentation assets.
• Tip: For large repositories, clear your output folder before each run to ensure the generated documentation reflects the current state of the source code.
• Limitation: The skill is strictly read-only; it does not execute code, so it cannot perform dynamic runtime analysis or capture live API traffic. It relies entirely on static analysis of files and configuration manifests.