DeepWiki by Cognition lets AI to generate documentation you can talk to for GitHub repos. Understands codebase structure. Powered by Devin. Free for open-sourced repo.
Sharing DeepWiki from Cognition Labs, the team behind Devin. It acts like "Deep Research for GitHub", an AI platform that automatically generates documentation you can talk to for GitHub repositories.
Understanding large or unfamiliar codebases can be a huge time sink. DeepWiki tackles this by using AI to analyze the entire repo structure, content, and even commit history, then generating hierarchical wiki pages.
One really neat trick for access: just replace "github" with "deepwiki" in any public repo URL to jump straight to its DeepWiki page.
It's incredibly useful for quickly getting up to speed on new projects or navigating complex code.
This sounds awesome — huge congrats to the team! 🚀
Replacing “github” with “deepwiki” in the URL for instant AI docs is such a clever move — frictionless and memorable. Love how it helps with the real pain point of onboarding into large or messy codebases.
Would be cool if in the future it also:
Visualized repo architecture as a graph
Highlighted “critical” or “risky” parts of code automatically
Really excited to try this on some open-source projects I’ve been wanting to contribute to! 🔥
