Show HN: Stewie Reflect – owner's manuals for repos, with claims linked to code
Stewie Reflect is a new tool that generates owner's manuals for software repositories, linking claims and documentation directly to the relevant source code. It aims to make codebases more understandable by providing human-readable explanations tied to specific code sections.
Background
- Show HN is a section of Hacker News where users share side projects or new tools they've built, often to get feedback.
- This project, "Stewie Reflect," auto-generates an "owner's manual" (a high-level README) for a GitHub repository, but goes further by linking every claim back to the specific code or file that supports it.
- The core idea: documentation often goes out of sync with code, and this tool tries to solve that by making a living document that proves each statement with a code reference.
- "Owner's manuals for repos" is a metaphor for the kind of onboarding docs a new maintainer or contributor needs to understand the project's structure, assumptions, and quirks.