EMNLP 2024 Conference paper

RepoAgent: An LLM-Powered Open-Source Framework for Repository-level Code Documentation Generation

An open-source agent that generates and maintains documentation with a view of the whole code repository.

Qinyu Luo^*, Yining Ye^*, Shihao Liang, Zhong Zhang, Yujia Qin, Yaxi Lu, Yesai Wu, Xin Cong, Yankai Lin, Yingli Zhang, Xiaoyin Che, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun

* Equal contribution.

RepoAgent framework with global structure analysis, documentation generation, and documentation update. — Fig. 2 — Original RepoAgent framework.Original source ↗

01 / The question

How can documentation stay useful as a repository grows and its code changes?

02 / The approach

RepoAgent

RepoAgent uses language models to generate repository-level documentation and update it alongside code changes. The framework connects documentation generation with repository understanding, supporting an ongoing development workflow.

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@inproceedings{luo-etal-2024-repoagent,
    title = "{R}epo{A}gent: An {LLM}-Powered Open-Source Framework for Repository-level Code Documentation Generation",
    author = "Luo, Qinyu  and
      Ye, Yining  and
      Liang, Shihao  and
      Zhang, Zhong  and
      Qin, Yujia  and
      Lu, Yaxi  and
      Wu, Yesai  and
      Cong, Xin  and
      Lin, Yankai  and
      Zhang, Yingli  and
      Che, Xiaoyin  and
      Liu, Zhiyuan  and
      Sun, Maosong",
    editor = "Hernandez Farias, Delia Irazu  and
      Hope, Tom  and
      Li, Manling",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-demo.46/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-demo.46",
    pages = "436--464"
}

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