# Mintlify Blog

> [llms.txt](https://www.mintlify.com/llms.txt)

Product updates, engineering deep dives, and company news from Mintlify.

URL: https://www.mintlify.com/blog

- [Simpler, outcome-based AI pricing](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/outcome-based-ai-pricing.md): Every AI action in Mintlify now has a fixed credit price, and you only pay when we deliver a result. Assistant answers and automation updates cost credits. Everything else is free. (Announcements · September 8, 2026 · 3 min read)
- [Scaling llms.txt](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/scaling-llms-txt.md): Large documentation sites were hitting Mintlify's 100,000-character llms.txt limit and omitting pages. We rebuilt generation as a hierarchy of files so agents can reach every page without loading the entire index. (Engineering · September 1, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [Announcing Instant Rollbacks](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/instant-rollbacks.md): Instant rollbacks are now live for Mintlify Enterprise customers. You can roll back to a known good deployment in seconds, without waiting on a full rebuild. (Announcements · August 31, 2026 · 3 min read)
- [Your agent can sign up for Mintlify fully on its own](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/mint-signup.md): Mintlify's mint signup command creates an account from the CLI so coding agents can set up docs without a browser. Every step from signup to deploy works from the terminal. (Announcements · August 12, 2026 · 3 min read)
- [Introducing Mintlify Index](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/mintlify-index.md): Mintlify Index aggregates the docs of 9000 Mintlify-powered documentation sites into a natural language retrieval layer for coding agents. (Announcements · August 6, 2026 · 2 min read)
- [The state of docs traffic: a 2026 midyear report](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/state-of-docs-traffic.md): Agents now account for 66% of measured web-traffic across docs powered by Mintlify, with July logging over 213 million agent web requests and 105 million human page loads as the month comes to a close. (AI Trends · July 29, 2026 · 5 min read)
- [Docs URL Benchmark: Markdown & llms.txt > HTML](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/llms-txt-agent-benchmark.md): We benchmarked four ways to serve documentation to AI agents (HTML, plain markdown, markdown linking to llms.txt, and markdown with llms.txt inlined) across 2,400 runs on 20 Mintlify docs sites, and found that a single link to llms.txt eliminates most agent 404s at no added cost. (Engineering · July 17, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [How Claude Code's documentation team makes feedback actionable with Mintlify](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-claude-code-docs-team-uses-mintlify.md): Anthropic's Technical Content Engineer for Claude Code shares how she uses Mintlify and Claude to automate documentation improvements from user feedback. (Best Practices · June 25, 2026 · 6 min read)
- [Docs as an abstraction layer for coding agents](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/structured-docs-coding-agents.md): A large engineering org ran controlled experiments to measure how structured Mintlify docs affect agent performance on massive codebases. The results: 64% more precise, 39% more discoverable, half the tokens, 1.5x faster. (AI Trends · June 8, 2026 · 5 min read)
- [Your documentation is a demand channel](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/documentation-is-a-demand-channel.md): Documentation is often the highest-traffic, highest-intent surface in your entire funnel. It's the first place a buyer visits before trying your product. It's where agents surface and push your product to prospects. (Best Practices · June 4, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [Markdown is the easy part](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/build-vs-buy.md): Mintlify might look like a Markdown hosting service from the outside. But the build versus buy question for content infrastructure goes much deeper than rendering Markdown. (AI Trends · June 3, 2026 · 6 min read)
- [Tokenmaxxing: one AI budget, four jobs](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/tokenmaxxing-one-ai-budget-four-jobs.md): Every company is now paying for AI tokens, but few can draw a clean line from that spend to business outcomes. Here's a framework that maps AI Credits to the P&L categories finance teams already understand. (AI Trends · May 25, 2026 · 8 min read)
- [22 UX improvements to the web editor](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/22-ux-improvements-to-the-web-editor.md): A round-up of the UX improvements coming to Mintlify's web editor. (May 4, 2026 · 6 min read)
- [Introducing the Mintlify Help Center Starter Kit](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/help-center.md): Help centers are the first line of defense for customer support. The new Mintlify Help Center starter kit and AI ticket deflection make it faster than ever to launch one. (Announcements · May 1, 2026 · 3 min read)
- [Automations, rebuilt](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/automations-rebuilt.md): We redesigned automations for quicker setup with pre-built automations optimized for the most common use cases. Choose the right automations for your project and you're set. No prompt engineering required. (Announcements · April 29, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [Introducing the collaborative editor built for teams and agents](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/editor.md): A new editing experience that brings live collaboration, git sync, and WYSIWYG editing into one workflow for your whole team. (Announcements · April 29, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [Is your documentation agent-ready?](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/agent-score.md): An AI agent is reading your documentation right now. How well is it doing? We built a free tool to check how agent-ready your content is based on the agent-friendly documentation spec. (Announcements · April 27, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [Mintlify raises $45M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz and Salesforce Ventures](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/series-b.md): We're thrilled to announce our $45M Series B round, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Salesforce Ventures, and joined by existing investors including Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator, and others. (Announcements · April 14, 2026 · 5 min read)
- [5 things you didn't know you could do in the Mintlify web editor](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/5-editor-features-you-should-know.md): The Mintlify web editor can do more than you think, here are five features that make it easy for your whole team to contribute to docs. (Best Practices · April 13, 2026 · 6 min read)
- [The improved Mintlify CLI](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/improved-cli.md): A new CLI revamp that brings the Mintlify platform interface closer to the terminal. (Announcements · April 7, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [Docs on autopilot: From zero to self-maintaining with Mintlify](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/docs-on-autopilot.md): How Mintlify's auto-generated docs and automations combine to take documentation from nonexistent to self-maintaining. (Best Practices · April 3, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [The state of agent traffic in documentation (March 2026)](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/state-of-ai.md): An analysis of 30 days of Mintlify documentation traffic, broken down by AI agents, browsers, and other sources. (AI Trends · April 3, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [How we built a virtual filesystem for our Assistant](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-we-built-a-virtual-filesystem-for-our-assistant.md): We replaced expensive sandboxes with ChromaFs, a virtual filesystem over Chroma, to give our docs AI assistant the ability to explore documentation like a developer would. (Engineering · March 24, 2026 · 5 min read)
- [We Replaced Our Internal Wiki With a Slack Bot. You Should Too.](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/kb-agent.md): Mintlify tripled in size and institutional knowledge was dying in Slack threads. So we built a KB agent that lives in Slack, reads conversations, and turns them into version-controlled documentation without anyone leaving the tools they already use. (Announcements · March 22, 2026 · 5 min read)
- [8 ways teams use Mintlify to keep docs updated automatically](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/automations-usecases.md): A use-case-driven guide to automating documentation maintenance with Mintlify, featuring automations code snippets for eight real-world automation patterns. (Best Practices · March 20, 2026 · 7 min read)
- [Documentation is your AI interface](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/docs-as-ai-interface.md): Your docs are doing more than ever--they're still your best developer resource and  now the interface through which AI understands your product too. (AI Trends · March 13, 2026 · 7 min read)
- [What three years of watching AI in production taught us](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/why-we-joined-mintlify.md): Learn what three years of watching AI in production taught us about the knowledge layer and why that realization led us to join Mintlify. (March 11, 2026 · 6 min read)
- [Bridging two JSX runtimes: How we solved Astro's React children problem](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/astro-react-children.md): How Mintlify solved a fundamental JSX runtime mismatch to make compound React components work inside Astro's MDX pipeline. (Engineering · March 10, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [AI agents are shipping faster than anyone can document](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/knowledge-management-agent-era.md): AI agents are shipping faster than anyone can document. Automations closes the gap by automatically updating your docs when your product changes. (Announcements · March 9, 2026 · 9 min read)
- [Automations: Self-updating documentation](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/automations.md): Automations let you automate documentation maintenance directly from your repository by defining triggers and instructions in Markdown, so your docs stay in sync with your product. (Announcements · March 6, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [Knowledge management systems for technical teams](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/knowledge-bases-for-technical-teams.md): Learn what makes developer knowledge management systems successful, and how to build systems that engineering teams will actually use and get value from. (Best Practices · March 6, 2026 · 9 min read)
- [Mintlify acquires Helicone to redefine AI knowledge infrastructure](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/mintlify-acquires-helicone.md): Mintlify is acquiring Helicone, the open source LLM observability platform and AI gateway. Helicone's team has been building at the frontier of agentic AI, and they're joining to help us build the next generation of AI knowledge infrastructure. (Announcements · March 3, 2026 · 2 min read)
- [Why more product managers are switching to Mintlify](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/mintlify-for-product-managers.md): Understand why product managers are using Mintlify to help support org-wide goals. (Best Practices · March 3, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [Auto-generating documentation sites from GitHub repos](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/auto-generate-docs-from-repos.md): How we built a multi-agent system to generate production-ready documentation sites from any public GitHub repository. (Engineering · March 2, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [Your docs, your frontend, our content engine](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/custom-frontends-on-mintlify.md): Enterprise teams can now own their docs frontend while Mintlify handles the content engine, AI, and editor behind the scenes. (Announcements · February 19, 2026 · 2 min read)
- [Take control of your documentation system](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/writer-devex.md): New features for technical writers who need customizable, flexible documentation systems. (Best Practices · February 18, 2026 · 3 min read)
- [Almost half your docs traffic is AI, time to understand the agent experience](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/ai-traffic.md): Nearly half of all the traffic to your documentation site is now AI agents. How can you create a great agent experience? (Best practices · February 17, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [@mintlify for better docs, faster](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/better-docs-faster.md): The improved agent means better contributions from my team and fewer docs tasks stuck in the backlog. (Best Practices · February 16, 2026 · 3 min read)
- [Mintlify for Enterprise](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/mintlify-for-enterprise.md): How companies like Anthropic, Coinbase, HubSpot, Fidelity, PayPal, and Microsoft use Mintlify to run documentation as core infrastructure in an AI-driven, revenue-critical world. (Announcements · February 11, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [Real llms.txt examples from leading tech companies (and what they got right)](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/real-llms-txt-examples.md): A practical look at real llms.txt files from leading developer platforms like Anthropic, Vercel, Stripe, and Cloudflare. (Best Practices · February 7, 2026 · 11 min read)
- [Mintlify + Claude Opus 4.6: Powering AI-native knowledge management](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/opus-4-6.md): How Mintlify is using Claude to deliver more concise, accurate documentation assistance (AI Trends · February 5, 2026 · 3 min read)
- [Declaring Clankruptcy: An experiment in agent orchestration](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/declaring-clankruptcy.md): TL;DR: We tried agent orchestration, but an army of Claudes is still no match for one Dmytro. (Engineering · February 3, 2026 · 7 min read)
- [Analytics for AI and agent traffic](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/agent-analytics.md): See how AI agents use your documentation and why building docs for agent consumption is becoming essential. (Announcements · February 2, 2026 · 2 min read)
- [A better way to edit and publish in Mintlify](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/improved-web-editor.md): A new web editor that brings publishing, editing, and previewing into one workflow for anyone on your team. (Announcements · January 30, 2026 · 3 min read)
- [Improved agent experience with llms.txt and content negotiation](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/context-for-agents.md): Clear, accessible documentation is a prerequisite for agents to successfully perform real world tasks. By improving llms.txt discoverability, we reduce friction in how agents find and consume the documentation they depend on. (Best Practices · January 29, 2026 · 3 min read)
- [Your docs are now discoverable by agents](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/skills-discovery-from-any-url.md): Every Mintlify docs site now supports automatic skills discovery. Run npx skills add with any docs URL and the CLI finds and installs skills for you. (Announcements · January 28, 2026 · 2 min read)
- [Why do we need MCP if skills exist now?](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/why-do-we-need-mcp-if-skills-exist.md): Skills and MCP solve different problems. Skills package knowledge. MCP packages authenticated, scoped access on a user's behalf. (AI Trends · January 26, 2026 · 5 min read)
- [skill.md: An open standard for agent skills](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/skill-md.md): All Mintlify documentation sites now contain a skill.md file. Learn about this open standard for agent skills and how to use it. (Announcements · January 21, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [install.md: A Standard for LLM-Executable Installation](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/install-md-standard-for-llm-executable-installation.md): A proposal for a standard /install.md file that provides LLM-executable installation instructions. (Announcements · January 15, 2026 · 6 min read)
- [Why documentation is one of the most important surfaces for marketers](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/mintlify-for-marketers.md): A look at why documentation is one of the most influential surfaces in a technical product’s funnel, how it shapes evaluation and adoption, and why marketers should treat it as a core part of their narrative. (Best Practices · January 14, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [How I built our knowledge base in an afternoon](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-to-build-a-knowledge-base.md): Migrating content from multiple sources to Mintlify and building a knowledge base in hours, not weeks. (Best Practices · January 13, 2026 · 4 min read)
- [Closing the loop between user questions and documentation](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/agent-suggestions-assistant.md): Learn how Mintlify now surfaces documentation updates not only from pull requests but also from real user conversations, giving teams a clearer and more complete signal of what needs to change (Announcements · January 7, 2026 · 2 min read)
- [2025: A Year in Review](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/2025-year-in-review.md): Scaling to 8-figures ARR, onboarding 10,000+ companies, and evolving from a documentation platform into the infrastructure layer for how AI understands technical knowledge. (Announcements · December 31, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [Mintlify Security Event - November 2025](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/working-with-security-researchers-november-2025.md): How a week-long collaboration with security researchers helped us identify and fix vulnerabilities, making Mintlify more secure for everyone. (Announcements · December 18, 2025 · 5 min read)
- [Inside our effort to improve the Mintlify assistant](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/assistant-improvements.md): A data-driven look at improving the assistant, powered by ClickHouse and deeper feedback analysis. (Engineering · December 12, 2025 · 3 min read)
- [Introducing the next step towards self-updating docs](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/autopilot.md): The agent now monitors your codebase, proactively identifies documentation updates, and surfaces needed suggestions to your team. (Announcements · December 8, 2025 · 2 min read)
- [ How we eliminated cold starts for 72M monthly page views with edge caching](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/page-speed-improvements.md): How we improved page speed performance across Mintlify documentation. (Engineering · December 8, 2025 · 7 min read)
- [10 UI fixes I shipped in 10 days](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/10-fixes-in-10-days.md): Little details are what make UX so good you don't notice it. (Engineering · December 1, 2025 · 3 min read)
- [The Mintlify agent, now in your dashboard](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/agent-dashboard.md): How the Mintlify agent transforms documentation into a self-updating, system that stays accurate for humans and AI alike. (Announcements · December 1, 2025 · 2 min read)
- [Impact of SHA1-Hulud: The Second Coming on the Mintlify CLI](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/sha1-hulud-the-second-coming.md): The Mintlify CLI was briefly exposed to a supply chain attack. Learn what happened, who was affected, and what actions to take. Resolved in 6 hours. (Announcements · November 25, 2025 · 3 min read)
- [Documentation is dead. Long live documentation.](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/documentation-is-dead.md): How documentation is changing in the age of AI. (AI Trends · November 24, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [What I shipped in my first 60 days at Mintlify](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/what-i-shipped.md): Building analytics infrastructure, abuse detection systems, and caching solutions. (Engineering · November 6, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [Terminal agents are the future - We're launching mint new](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/mintlify-for-terminal-agents.md): We're launching mint new to bring Mintlify to your terminal workflow. Create docs sites in seconds with terminal agents like Claude Code. (Announcements · October 30, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [How we’re making Mintlify documentation more accessible](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/accessibility.md): Learn about recent accessibility improvements and how Mintlify helps you create documentation that works for users regardless of how they access and interact with your site. (Announcements · October 24, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [Building an LSP for your docs](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/building-an-lsp-for-your-docs-by-overcoming-vercel.md): Adding an IDE experience to codeblocks in your docs is one of the issues that comes up often for people looking to add more context to code snippets. It's not a deal-breaker, but it can make your docs feel more connected to the functions and methods you're documenting. (Engineering · October 23, 2025 · 2 min read)
- [The role of good code blocks in documentation](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/code-block-documentation.md): Learn how Mintlify helps you ship best-in-class code blocks with Twoslash, Shiki and Ask AI. (Announcements · October 16, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [The /api Namespace is Now Open](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/slash-api-now-available.md): Mintlify now supports documentation pages at the /api path, enabling cleaner URLs that match your API structure. (Product Updates · October 6, 2025 · 2 min read)
- [Introducing the Mintlify Agent to write documentation with AI](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/agents-launch.md): Automatically update documentation with context from PRs, Slack threads, or links. (Announcements · September 29, 2025 · 2 min read)
- [We built our coding agent for Slack instead of the terminal](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/we-built-our-coding-agent-for-slack.md): Behind the scenes of why we built our agent for Slack. (Engineering · September 29, 2025 · 9 min read)
- [Top 7 ways to blend SEO with GEO for explosive brand growth](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/top-7-ways-to-blend-seo-with-geo.md): Practical tips on how to adapt your content strategy for GEO. (AI Trends · September 24, 2025 · 9 min read)
- [How Mintlify uses Claude Code as a technical writing assistant](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-mintlify-uses-claude-code-as-a-technical-writing-assistant.md): As the sole technical writer at Mintlify, I'm always looking for ways to improve my workflows and empower other people on my team to contribute to the docs. I also want to take a vacation without blocking docs ships for a week and a half. (AI Trends · August 19, 2025 · 9 min read)
- [AI Documentation Trends: What's Changing in 2025](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/ai-documentation-trends-whats-changing-in-2025.md): Coming into 2025, there were a number of predictions as to how AI would impact what we do and how we do it. And just halfway through the year, those predictions are already reshaping our daily tools and practices faster than anyone expected, across nearly every domain. (AI Trends · August 6, 2025 · 7 min read)
- [Debugging a mysterious HTTP streaming issue](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/debugging-a-mysterious-http-streaming-issue-when-cloudflare-compression-breaks-everything.md): We recently encountered a frustrating issue with HTTP response streaming at Mintlify. Our system uses the AI SDK with the Node stream API to forward streams, and suddenly things stopped working properly. The symptoms were confusing: streaming worked perfectly with cURL and Postman, but failed completely with node-fetch and browser fetch. ‍ (Engineering · August 1, 2025 · 5 min read)
- [How Pinecone writes documentation](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-technical-writers-at-pinecone-write-documentation.md): Jesse Seldess runs documentation at Pinecone, where he's shaping how developers learn and succeed with one of the leading vector database platforms. Previously, he's scaled developer education from the ground up at renowned organizations like Cockroach Labs. (Best Practices · July 25, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [How to generate llms.txt](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-to-generate-llmstxt-file-automatically.md): If you're trying to set up an llms.txt file, you're probably already familiar with the standard: a lightweight way to help AI tools better index your site's content. (AI Trends · July 25, 2025 · 5 min read)
- [Mintlify acquires Trieve to improve RAG search in documentation](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/mintlify-acquires-trieve-to-improve-rag-search-in-documentation.md): We're excited to announce that Mintlify has acquired Trieve, a provider of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) infrastructure designed to power quality AI search and chat experiences. (AI Trends · July 24, 2025 · 2 min read)
- [Behind Replit's Documentation Transformation](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/behind-replits-documentation-transformation.md): Replit is one of the hottest AI startups for creating and deploying AI applications. (AI Trends · June 27, 2025 · 6 min read)
- [How often do LLMs visit llms.txt?](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-often-do-llms-visit-llms-txt.md): Last month, we explored signals for the emerging standard of llms.txt, which is a Markdown file that makes websites easier for LLMs to index. (AI Trends · June 27, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [How Claude's memory and MCP work (and when to use each)](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-claudes-memory-and-mcp-work.md): Large Language Models (LLMs) like Claude can read files, troubleshoot issues, use external tools, and write tutorials much faster than a human ever could. But they are prone to hallucinations, struggle to follow complex instructions, and miss important context. (AI Trends · June 24, 2025 · 8 min read)
- [Introducing AI Assistant: Turning docs into your product expert](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/introducing-ai-assistant-2025.md): AI is the new interface for learning about your product. (AI Trends, Announcements · June 23, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [My quick formula for docs that convert](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/my-quick-formula-for-docs-that-convert.md): You probably don't immediately notice the design when you walk into a well-designed store. However, you end up finding what you need without wandering, and you move from browsing to buying without getting frustrated. You may notice that you had a pleasant shopping experience, but you may not realize that every part of the environment is intentional: the lighting, the aisles, the checkout flow, even what is placed at eye level. (Best Practices · June 11, 2025 · 11 min read)
- [It's not a race](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/its-not-a-race.md): The best advice that's kept me grounded as a founder? (For founders · June 4, 2025 · 2 min read)
- [How to hire your first technical writer](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-to-hire-your-first-technical-write.md): Hiring your first technical writer feels obvious in hindsight, but rarely in the moment. Founders know documentation is important. Teams start drowning in support questions. Engineers grumble about having to write. And then, usually after too much pain, someone says it out loud: we need a writer. (AI Trends · May 27, 2025 · 7 min read)
- [GEO guide to optimize writing for LLMs](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-to-improve-llm-readability.md): Google made it official last week at I/O: AI Overviews are now the default search experience in the U.S.—reaching over 1.5 billion people. (AI Trends · May 27, 2025 · 10 min read)
- [How Windsurf writes docs](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-windsurf-writes-docs.md): At Windsurf, a leading player in the AI coding space, documentation is integrated in how they build, ship, and market their product. (AI Trends · May 27, 2025 · 3 min read)
- [How Anaconda writes documentation](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-anaconda-writes-documentation.md): We sat down with Idan Englander, Manager of Technical Writing at Anaconda, to discuss how he scaled from being a solo writer, what documentation processes actually work, and where AI fits (and doesn't) in the writing workflow. If you're curious about more of Idan's writing principles, check out our Guide to Technical Writing. (Best practices · May 16, 2025 · 6 min read)
- [Should you generate docs from your API schema?](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/should-you-generate-docs-from-your-api-schema.md): When your API constantly changes, how do you ensure your documentation keeps up? (AI Trends · May 16, 2025 · 14 min read)
- [The value of llms.txt: Hype or real?](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/the-value-of-llms-txt-hype-or-real.md): If you've been following AI trends, you've probably heard of llms.txt. (AI Trends · May 9, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [Why we sunsetted mcpt](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/why-we-sunsetted-mcpt.md): When we launched our MCP server generator, it was our most viral and well received launch of all time. (AI Trends, For Founders · April 23, 2025 · 3 min read)
- [How to use MCP servers to generate docs](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-to-use-mcp-servers-to-generate-docs.md): AI tools have become great at reading documentation and pulling answers. For example, fast, contextual AI chat for docs is now a baseline expectation of users. (AI Trends · April 18, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [AI can write your docs, but should it?](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/ai-can-write-your-docs-but-should-it.md): The perception of writing as a profession changed with the proliferation of AI. Generative AI platforms and tools like ChatGPT are now used to create and rewrite content at scale. (AI Trends · April 2, 2025 · 9 min read)
- [What is llms.txt? Breaking down the skepticism](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/what-is-llms-txt.md): You might be seeing llms.txt pop up more lately. It's a new standard that's quickly gaining traction that makes web content easier for large language models (LLMs) to understand. (AI Trends · April 2, 2025 · 12 min read)
- [mcpt: The curated registry for MCP servers](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/mcpt.md): Note: As of April 2025, we have sunsetted mcpt.com. After receiving immense interest in the registry, we had to make the hard decision that mcpt upkeep was not a bandwidth tradeoff we can make with our lean team. The following content has been left published for transparency. (AI Trends · March 25, 2025 · 3 min read)
- [How to audit and overhaul your software documentation](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-to-audit-and-overhaul-your-software-documentation.md): One of the most common tickets when I join any new company is some variation of "Update X in the documentation." Most teams know the importance of keeping software documentation up to date, but in practice, it often falls to the bottom of their priority list. (Best Practices · March 13, 2025 · 13 min read)
- [What is MCP and how to get started](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/what-is-mcp-and-how-to-get-started.md): The Model Context Protocol was introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 to standardize how LLMs connect to different data sources and tools, acting like a universal adapter for AI applications. (AI Trends, Best Practices · March 12, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [Generate MCP servers from your docs](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/generate-mcp-servers-for-your-docs.md): Everything that you need to build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is already available in your docs. (AI Trends · March 6, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [Mintlify vs. Readme: A 2025 Comparison](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/mintlify-vs-readme-2025.md): If you're choosing a developer documentation tool in 2025, Readme and Mintlify are the two most popular options. (Best practices · March 5, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [How Generative Engine Optimization is Reshaping Docs](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-geo-is-reshaping-docs.md): Large language models (LLMs) are changing SEO—and giving rise to a new frontier: generative engine optimization (GEO). Studies are projecting LLM traffic to skyrocket from 0.25% of all search volume in 2024 to 10% by the end of 2025. (AI Trends · February 27, 2025 · 5 min read)
- [Should you build or buy an API documentation tool?](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/build-or-buy-api-documentation-tool.md): For companies that rely on a strong developer experience, technical documentation is more than just a helpful resource—it is a key differentiator. (Best Practices · February 26, 2025 · 6 min read)
- [When do you really need a monorepo?](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/when-do-you-really-need-a-monorepo.md): Software engineering teams often face an important decision: "Should all projects live in one repository or be split across multiple repositories?" This decision impacts build times, CI/CD pipelines, dependency management, and even documentation accuracy. (Best Practices · February 26, 2025 · 12 min read)
- [Fireside Chats: Gong's Approach to Software Documentation](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/fireside-chats-gongs-approach-to-documentation.md): We sat down with Jeffrey Aftel, Director of Product Writing at Gong, to discuss his approach to rebuilding legacy software documentation, his principles for impactful content, and the traits he looks for in technical writers. Jeff's background also includes technical writing leadership roles at HP and Velo by Wix. (AI Trends · February 18, 2025 · 5 min read)
- [The Next Chapter of Mintlify Themes](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/the-next-chapter-of-mintlify-themes.md): At Mintlify, we've always believed that great documentation should feel like a natural extension of a company's product experience. Today, we're taking that vision further with a complete reimagining of our theming system. (Announcements · February 13, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [New Devs Don't Read Docs? Maybe It's Not Their Fault](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/new-devs-dont-read-docs-maybe-its-not-their-fault.md): It's common to hear that developers skip documentation, but the reality is more complex. This assumption oversimplifies the issue and can lead to documentation practices within the team that make onboarding harder for new hires. (AI Trends · February 12, 2025 · 10 min read)
- [Founder Mode: Dub's journey from side project to enterprise link attribution platform](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/founder-mode-dub.md): Founder Mode is a series uncovering how founders and early leaders operate at today's standout startups. (For founders · February 10, 2025 · 4 min read)
- [Refactoring mint.json into docs.json](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/refactoring-mint-json-into-docs-json.md): Revamping a navigation schema might not sound flashy, but shipping docs.json is a major foundational update to mintlify. (Engineering · February 7, 2025 · 3 min read)
- [Breaking down common documentation mistakes](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/breaking-down-common-documentation-mistakes.md): Good documentation just feels right, while bad docs leave you frustrated—but pinpointing what went wrong can be tough. (Best Practices · January 23, 2025 · 6 min read)
- [What makes good API documentation? Best tools and examples](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/top-7-api-documentation-tools-of-2025.md): The API documentation software landscape is evolving fast in 2025. With AI advancements and rising developer expectations, companies must elevate their developer documentation to stay competitive. (AI Trends · January 1, 2025 · 16 min read)
- [2024 in Review: Getting Ship Done](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/2024-in-review-product-updates.md): 2024 was a whirlwind year for our team. (AI Trends · December 20, 2024 · 4 min read)
- [Five changelog principles from best-in-class developer brands](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/five-changelog-principles-from-best-developer-brands.md): Changelogs are an underrated but critical component of documentation. (Best Practices · December 12, 2024 · 6 min read)
- [Founder Mode: How Windsurf builds product, from 0 to 1M users](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/founder-mode-how-codeium-builds-product.md): [Note: This was published under Codeium, but the company has since rebranded to Windsurf. Edits have been made accordingly.] (For founders · December 3, 2024 · 6 min read)
- [Introducing AI Assistant](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/introducing-ai-assistant.md): We all know our docs could be better. (AI Trends, Announcements · November 25, 2024 · 2 min read)
- [Simplifying docs for AI with /llms.txt](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/simplifying-docs-with-llms-txt.md): Our team recently released support for /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt, meaning that Mintlify now automatically generates and hosts all docs in a plain text format for easier ingestion by large language models (LLMs). (AI Trends · November 20, 2024 · 3 min read)
- [How and why you should adopt Docs as Code](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/adopt-docs-as-code.md): We all suffer from documentation lagging behind product updates. (AI Trends · November 19, 2024 · 4 min read)
- [Founder Mode: How PostHog builds in public](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/founder-mode-posthog.md): Founder Mode is a series uncovering how founders and early leaders operate at some of today's standout startups. PostHog, an analytics platform, has built an iconic brand among developers since its inception in 2020. (For founders · November 18, 2024 · 6 min read)
- [Introducing our revamped Web Editor](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/introducing-web-editor.md): Today, we're excited to introduce our new Web Editor, which allows you to create, edit, and publish documentation using a Notion-like interface. (Announcements · November 11, 2024 · 3 min read)
- [Founder Mode: How Unify scaled up from founder-led sales](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/founder-mode-unify.md): Welcome to Founder Mode, our new series uncovering how founders and early leaders operate at today's rising startups. (For founders · October 29, 2024 · 5 min read)
- [How to write documentation that developers want to read](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-to-write-documentation-that-developers-want-to-read.md): Top-tier documentation stands out immediately—it's thoughtful, comprehensive, and easy to navigate. (Best Practices · October 8, 2024 · 9 min read)
- [Mintlify raises $18M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/series-a.md): We're thrilled to announce our $18M Series A round, led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by existing investors including Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator, and others. (Announcements · September 3, 2024 · 3 min read)
- [Launch Week III Day 5: OpenAPI Automations](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-iii-day-5.md): Launch Week Day 5 brings OpenAPI automations to your documentation 🤖. (Announcements · June 28, 2024 · 2 min read)
- [Launch Week III Day 4: User Auth](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-3-day-4.md): Launch Week Day 4 brings User Authentication to your docs 🔒. (Announcements · June 27, 2024 · 2 min read)
- [Launch Week III Day 2: Search V2](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-3-day-2.md): For Day 2, we're excited to bring you Search V2 🔍 (Announcements · June 26, 2024 · 2 min read)
- [Launch Week III Day 3: Web Editor Branching](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-3-day-3.md): Ever since we launched our web editor last year, we've been amazed at how it has non-technical users to leverage Mintlify across all functions including marketing, operations, and customer success. (Announcements · June 25, 2024 · 2 min read)
- [Launch Week III Day 1: Themes](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-3-day-1.md): Welcome to Mintlify's third ever Launch Week! Over the course of the next five days, we'll be bringing you an exciting new feature every day. (Announcements · June 24, 2024 · 2 min read)
- [Design matters: Mintlify's dashboard glow-up](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/design-matters.md): At Mintlify, we understand that design goes beyond aesthetics; it's about creating experiences that delight and empower users. Industry leaders like Linear, Vercel, Airbnb, and Apple have set a high standard, demonstrating that exceptional design is not merely a bonus but a critical factor in achieving success. (Design · April 16, 2024 · 4 min read)
- [The Mintlify MDX VSCode extension](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/mdx-vscode-extension.md): Today, we're thrilled to introduce the Mintlify MDX VSCode extension. (Announcements · March 26, 2024 · 2 min read)
- [How Mintlify is improving security](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/security-update.md): We at Mintlify are committed to the privacy and security of our customers. Your trust in our ability to safeguard your data is the cornerstone upon which our services are built. (Announcements · March 22, 2024 · 3 min read)
- [Incident report on March 13, 2024](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/incident-march-13.md): Edit March 18, 2024 10:20 AM (Announcements · March 13, 2024 · 4 min read)
- [Mintlify product update February 2024](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/february-2024.md): In February, we shipped wildcard redirects and upgraded our dashboard, tab versioning setup, and more. (Announcements · March 8, 2024 · 2 min read)
- [How we grew Mintlify by doing things that don't scale](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/things-that-do-not-scale.md): Most people envision the process of founding a startup to play out like this: the founders brainstorm around a whiteboard, there is a lightbulb moment when a golden idea is born, users flock to the startup the day the product is launched, and then the founders ride off into the sunset to build a successful billion dollar company. (For Founders · January 26, 2024 · 7 min read)
- [Launch Week II Day 5: Chat Analytics](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-2-day-5.md): Our final day of Launch Week 2 brings Chat Analytics to the Mintlify dashboard 🤖. (Announcements · January 11, 2024 · 2 min read)
- [Launch Week II Day 3: Open Source MDX Engine](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-2-day-3.md): Day 2 of Launch Week 2 brings open-sourcing Mintlify's MDX Engine 🚀. (Announcements · January 10, 2024 · 2 min read)
- [Launch Week II Day 4: Custom JS](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-2-day-4.md): Day 4 of Launch Week 2 brings Custom JS to your documentation 🚀. (Announcements · January 10, 2024 · 1 min read)
- [Launch Week II Day 2: Snippets V2](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-2-day-2.md): Day 2 of Launch Week II brings Snippets V2 🚀. (Announcements · January 9, 2024 · 2 min read)
- [Launch Week II Day 1: Preview Deployments](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-2-day-1.md): Welcome to Mintlify's second launch week! Over the course of the week, we'll be launching something new every day. (Announcements · January 8, 2024 · 2 min read)
- [Product Updates - November 2023](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/november-2023.md): In November, we shipped new upgrades to our API Playground, the Web Editor, and our Landing Page. (Announcements · November 30, 2023 · 2 min read)
- [How we design at Mintlify](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-we-design-at-mintlify.md): When we ask our users why they moved to Mintlify, it's often because of the user experience of our documentation. It's something that we are always thinking about, and that we devote countless hours and iterations to. (Design · November 14, 2023 · 7 min read)
- [How Stripe creates the best documentation in the industry](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/stripe-docs.md): Ask any developer which company has the best documentation and you'll hear the same answer: Stripe. (AI Trends · November 10, 2023 · 7 min read)
- [Product Updates - October 2023](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/october-2023.md): In October, we brought new feature improvements to our platform, including a new CLI upgrade, improved version stability, multiple frontend and UX improvements with the API Playground, and more. (Announcements · October 31, 2023 · 2 min read)
- [YC was worth it, but not for the reasons you might think](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/hahnbee-applying-to-yc.md): The deadline to apply for the W24 batch passed last week, making me reminiscent to two years ago when Han and I applied to Y Combinator. (For founders · October 16, 2023 · 8 min read)
- [Launch Week I Wrapup](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-wrapup.md): Last week, we launched a feature a day, from CLI enhancements to Global CSS to the Web Editor. (Announcements · October 2, 2023 · 4 min read)
- [Launch Week Day 5: Web Editor](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-day-5.md): Day 5 of Launch Week brings our most requested feature yet—our Web Editor. (Announcements · September 29, 2023 · 2 min read)
- [Launch Week Day 4: API Playground Redesign](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-day-4.md): Day 4 of Launch Week brings a redesigned API Playground to your docs. (Announcements · September 28, 2023 · 3 min read)
- [Launch Week Day 3: Global CSS](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-day-3.md): Day 3 of Launch Week brings Global CSS to your documentation. (Announcements · September 27, 2023 · 2 min read)
- [Launch Week Day 2: Docs Feedback](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-day-2.md): Day 2 of Launch Week brings Docs Feedback to your documentation. (Announcements · September 26, 2023 · 2 min read)
- [Launch Week Day 1: CLI Enhancements](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/launch-week-day-1.md): Today is Day 1 of our first ever Launch Week! This week, we'll have something new each day for our users. (Announcements · September 25, 2023 · 2 min read)
- [Autogenerating API documentation from OpenAPI](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/steps-to-autogenerate.md): If you're using OpenAPI and looking for a quick and efficient method to create beautiful API documentation, you're in the right place. (Best practices · September 15, 2023 · 4 min read)
- [Product Update - August 2023](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/august-2023.md): In August, we brought a range of improvements and expansions to our platform, including our CLI v4, documentation feedback, LateX support, copying headers from mobile, and icon add-ins. (Announcements · August 31, 2023 · 2 min read)
- [Product Update - July 2023](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/july-2023.md): July brings AI features, autogeneration, and support for broken links to our users. Here's a detailed breakdown of all our latest additions: (Announcements · July 31, 2023 · 3 min read)
- [Mintlify Chat - ChatGPT Trained on Your Documentation](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/chat.md): Ever since Mintlify launched, we've been looking for ways to improve information discoverability. While GPT-3.5 had potential, it lacked consistency and quality, being prone to hallucinations and pulling out misleading or entirely false results from thin air. (AI Trends · July 19, 2023 · 2 min read)
- [Our journey through Y Combinator](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/ycombinator.md): Y Combinator (YC) is widely seen as the world's best and most prolific startup accelerator. Since 2005, YC has funded over 4,000 companies, including Mintlify in its Winter 2022 batch. (For Founders · July 10, 2023 · 8 min read)