April Drop: Knowledge from hundreds of open source projects, now available via MCP

Welcome back to the monthly Dosu Drop. Somehow it’s April already?! Here in the Dosu office, it’s raining new features:

Dosu can automatically apply Templates to keep structure consistent between docs

Now you can add a Template to show Dosu how a certain kind of doc should be organized. We’ve got several examples you can use off the shelf, like a SKILL.md for coding agents, a project glossary for engineers, or release notes for end users. Once you’ve added some Templates, Dosu will automatically apply them when generating relevant docs.

Public Space Knowledge is available in the Dosu MCP Server

There are over 800 Dosu Public Spaces for prominent open source projects like Airflow, Docling, vLLM, and Ant Design. Our MCP Server now comes with built-in knowledge we’ve gained from thousands of issues, discussions and PRs on these projects. Dosu can help your coding agent understand recent changes, unresolved issues and workarounds for your open source dependencies.

It’s easier than ever to get started with our MCP Server using the upgraded Dosu CLI:

npx @dosu/cli setup

And we’ve been continuing to add even more capabilities, including two new MCP tools that let your coding agent create or update docs on demand.

Two more ways to chat with Dosu

First, Slack DMs are back. After a long hiatus, you can once again chat with Dosu one-on-one in Slack. Send it the questions you’re embarrassed to ask in #eng-help.

Second, we’ve added an “Ask” box when viewing a doc in the Dosu app. It knows what page you’re on and will answer accordingly - you can even ask it to make updates.

Stalebot is going open source

One of Dosu’s first features was closing stale GitHub issues. Lately, we’ve been focused on building the best knowledge infrastructure for coding agents, and the stalebot ended up getting a bit stale itself. Good news: we’ve rewritten it using GitHub Agentic Workflows and we’ll be releasing it as a standalone open source project later this month.

As part of this change, we’ll also be removing the stalebot functionality from the Dosu app on August 1st. If you currently have the stalebot enabled, we’ll reach out in a separate email with a migration guide.

That's all for this month! Until next time,
Devin Stein
Founder and CEO