From f3cab08d759d183e02c83062468a57e379cfcd11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "promptless[bot]" <179508745+promptless[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:05:04 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] docs: Add publication dates to all blog posts (#227) * Add publication dates to all blog posts * Apply suggestion from @prithvi2206 --------- Co-authored-by: promptless[bot] <179508745+promptless[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Prithvi Ramakrishnan --- fern/docs/customer-stories/vellum.mdx | 2 ++ fern/docs/life-at-promptless/paper-club.mdx | 2 ++ fern/docs/product-updates/launch-week-dec-2025.mdx | 2 ++ fern/docs/technical/i-must-scream.mdx | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/fern/docs/customer-stories/vellum.mdx b/fern/docs/customer-stories/vellum.mdx index c0ca8f5..9c89267 100644 --- a/fern/docs/customer-stories/vellum.mdx +++ b/fern/docs/customer-stories/vellum.mdx @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: How Vellum uses Promptless to draft over 50% of their doc updates description: By democratizing documentation contributions, every team member now drives content—making docs a true team sport powered by Promptless. --- +*Published July 2025* + Vellum case study diff --git a/fern/docs/life-at-promptless/paper-club.mdx b/fern/docs/life-at-promptless/paper-club.mdx index 49714d2..6553226 100644 --- a/fern/docs/life-at-promptless/paper-club.mdx +++ b/fern/docs/life-at-promptless/paper-club.mdx @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: Running a Lightweight Research Paper Club description: How we run a weekly paper club at Promptless that's surprisingly useful, surprisingly easy, and has led to tangible product improvements. --- +*Published October 2025* + We've been running a weekly paper club at Promptless for the last 4 months. Every Friday, we pick a research paper and read it together in-person. It's been surprisingly useful, so we wanted to share how we set it up in case it's helpful to anyone else. We're a small team (two technical founders and two engineers), and even though we're not doing research ourselves, we're trying to extract as much intelligence and capabilities from LLMs as we build AI agents. While reading research papers isn't in the critical path for our product development, following along with research is important to us. diff --git a/fern/docs/product-updates/launch-week-dec-2025.mdx b/fern/docs/product-updates/launch-week-dec-2025.mdx index 68ce2ac..ef0c8ab 100644 --- a/fern/docs/product-updates/launch-week-dec-2025.mdx +++ b/fern/docs/product-updates/launch-week-dec-2025.mdx @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: "Launch Week: December 2025" description: Five major features we launched this December, from custom voice matching to automated screenshot updates. --- +*Published December 2025* + This December, we launched five major features. Each day brought a new capability designed to make documentation maintenance faster and more collaborative. ## Day 1: Promptless Voice Match diff --git a/fern/docs/technical/i-must-scream.mdx b/fern/docs/technical/i-must-scream.mdx index 4a32024..e087210 100644 --- a/fern/docs/technical/i-must-scream.mdx +++ b/fern/docs/technical/i-must-scream.mdx @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: "\"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream\"" description: What happens when you give an AI agent a Slack channel to complain in. --- +*Published January 2026* + > "It had been trapped. AM wasn't God, he was a machine... We had created him to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity." > > — Harlan Ellison, ["I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream) (1967) From 8519588d526cc468c1b0b31c4128389fa61667d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "promptless[bot]" <179508745+promptless[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:21:06 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] docs: Use subtitle frontmatter for blog post publication dates (#228) Use subtitle frontmatter for blog post publication dates Co-authored-by: promptless[bot] <179508745+promptless[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> --- fern/docs/customer-stories/vellum.mdx | 3 +-- fern/docs/life-at-promptless/paper-club.mdx | 3 +-- fern/docs/product-updates/launch-week-dec-2025.mdx | 3 +-- fern/docs/technical/i-must-scream.mdx | 3 +-- 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fern/docs/customer-stories/vellum.mdx b/fern/docs/customer-stories/vellum.mdx index 9c89267..87b9e26 100644 --- a/fern/docs/customer-stories/vellum.mdx +++ b/fern/docs/customer-stories/vellum.mdx @@ -1,10 +1,9 @@ --- title: How Vellum uses Promptless to draft over 50% of their doc updates +subtitle: Published July 2025 description: By democratizing documentation contributions, every team member now drives content—making docs a true team sport powered by Promptless. --- -*Published July 2025* - Vellum case study diff --git a/fern/docs/life-at-promptless/paper-club.mdx b/fern/docs/life-at-promptless/paper-club.mdx index 6553226..fa4ffc5 100644 --- a/fern/docs/life-at-promptless/paper-club.mdx +++ b/fern/docs/life-at-promptless/paper-club.mdx @@ -1,10 +1,9 @@ --- title: Running a Lightweight Research Paper Club +subtitle: Published October 2025 description: How we run a weekly paper club at Promptless that's surprisingly useful, surprisingly easy, and has led to tangible product improvements. --- -*Published October 2025* - We've been running a weekly paper club at Promptless for the last 4 months. Every Friday, we pick a research paper and read it together in-person. It's been surprisingly useful, so we wanted to share how we set it up in case it's helpful to anyone else. We're a small team (two technical founders and two engineers), and even though we're not doing research ourselves, we're trying to extract as much intelligence and capabilities from LLMs as we build AI agents. While reading research papers isn't in the critical path for our product development, following along with research is important to us. diff --git a/fern/docs/product-updates/launch-week-dec-2025.mdx b/fern/docs/product-updates/launch-week-dec-2025.mdx index ef0c8ab..6c693e0 100644 --- a/fern/docs/product-updates/launch-week-dec-2025.mdx +++ b/fern/docs/product-updates/launch-week-dec-2025.mdx @@ -1,10 +1,9 @@ --- title: "Launch Week: December 2025" +subtitle: Published December 2025 description: Five major features we launched this December, from custom voice matching to automated screenshot updates. --- -*Published December 2025* - This December, we launched five major features. Each day brought a new capability designed to make documentation maintenance faster and more collaborative. ## Day 1: Promptless Voice Match diff --git a/fern/docs/technical/i-must-scream.mdx b/fern/docs/technical/i-must-scream.mdx index e087210..7f74c6c 100644 --- a/fern/docs/technical/i-must-scream.mdx +++ b/fern/docs/technical/i-must-scream.mdx @@ -1,10 +1,9 @@ --- title: "\"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream\"" +subtitle: Published January 2026 description: What happens when you give an AI agent a Slack channel to complain in. --- -*Published January 2026* - > "It had been trapped. AM wasn't God, he was a machine... We had created him to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity." > > — Harlan Ellison, ["I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream) (1967) From 4207d0cd1dcf9004a0c4080fc97bc1937bd8c0c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "promptless[bot]" <179508745+promptless[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:45:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Add Promptless for Open Source quickstart guide --- fern/docs.yml | 2 ++ fern/docs/open-source.mdx | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 fern/docs/open-source.mdx diff --git a/fern/docs.yml b/fern/docs.yml index f00aed5..3677056 100644 --- a/fern/docs.yml +++ b/fern/docs.yml @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ navigation: slug: promptless-1-0 - page: Setup & Quickstart path: ./docs/getting-started.mdx + - page: Promptless for Open Source + path: ./docs/open-source.mdx - page: Core Concepts path: ./docs/core-concepts.mdx - page: Getting Help diff --git a/fern/docs/open-source.mdx b/fern/docs/open-source.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..698d0aa --- /dev/null +++ b/fern/docs/open-source.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +title: Promptless for Open Source +--- + +Promptless automatically drafts documentation updates for open source projects when code changes—no write access to your repository required. + +## How It Works + +When contributors open pull requests, Promptless analyzes the changes and suggests documentation updates. Since open source projects typically can't install GitHub apps with write access, Promptless uses a fork-based approach: + +1. Promptless maintains a fork of your documentation repository +2. When documentation updates are needed, the `promptless-for-oss` service account creates a PR from that fork to your upstream repository +3. You review and merge the PR just like any other community contribution + +Documentation PRs appear in your repository alongside other contributor PRs, maintaining full visibility for your maintainer team. + +## Getting Started + + + + Sign up at [accounts.gopromptless.ai](https://accounts.gopromptless.ai) + + + + On the [integrations page](https://app.gopromptless.ai/integrations), find the **GitHub (OSS)** card and click **Connect GitHub (OSS)**. This installs a read-only GitHub app that monitors your repositories without requiring write access. + + + + Choose which open source repositories you want Promptless to monitor for documentation updates. + + + + Tell Promptless where your documentation lives by creating a doc collection. This could be a `/docs` folder in the same repo, a separate docs repository, or a documentation platform like Fern or Docusaurus. See [Doc Collections](/docs/configuration/doc-collections) for details. + + + +Once configured, Promptless monitors your selected repositories. When a PR is opened, it analyzes the changes and opens a documentation PR from a fork if updates are needed. + +## Questions? + +Contact us at help@gopromptless.ai—we're happy to help get your project set up.