🧠 🤖 AI-powered XML documentation generator for .NET projects. Leveraging OpenAI's API, this tool analyzes your code and generates meaningful, human-readable XML documentation with the help of advanced AI.

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Caution

This project is in beta. It will reach General Availability (GA) with the first major release (v1.0).

What this tool does

dotnet-aidocument analyzes your .NET project using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp to identify undocumented members and uses the OpenAI API to generate meaningful XML documentation for them. This tool simplifies and accelerates the process of maintaining high-quality, human-readable documentation.

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Requirements

• OpenAI API key.
• .NET 8.0 (or higher) runtime.

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Getting started

This repository is available on NuGet under the name AiDocument.

Installation

1. Install the tool globally or for a specific project/repository.

dotnet tool install -g AiDocument

2. Move to the desired project folder.

3. Run the documentation generator.

dotnet-aidocument generate

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Sequence of Execution

Here’s a flow diagram showing the sequence of execution of the prepare-commit-msg hook and its integration with dotnet-aicommitmessage to generate commit messages using the OpenAI API:

sequenceDiagram
    participant User
    participant Tool
    participant OpenAI API
    participant .NET Project

    User->>Tool: Run command (generate)
    Tool->>Project: Analyze undocumented members
    Tool->>OpenAI API: Request documentation
    OpenAI API-->>Tool: Return generated documentation
    Tool-->>User: Output generated XML documentation

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Commands

This tool provides several commands to simplify and customize the documentation process:

Command	Description
generate	Analyzes the project and generates XML documentation for all undocumented members.
set-settings	Sets the OpenAI API key and configuration options.
export-docs	Exports the generated XML documentation to a specific folder or location.
help	Displays information about the available commands.
version	Displays the tool's version information.

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Example workflow

Here’s an example of how to use dotnet-aidocument:

1. Analyze the codebase for undocumented members:

   dotnet-aidocument generate

2. Export the generated XML documentation:

   dotnet-aidocument export-docs -o ./docs/xml

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Debug

To debug and review the OpenAI responses during the documentation generation, use the -D flag. This will create a debug.json file with the API response data.

Running in debug mode

dotnet-aidocument generate -D

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Example output

Below is an example of the generated XML documentation:

/// <summary>
/// Calculates the sum of two integers.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">The first integer.</param>
/// <param name="b">The second integer.</param>
/// <returns>The sum of the two integers.</returns>
public int Add(int a, int b) { return a + b; }

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit issues, feature requests, or pull requests to help improve dotnet-aidocument.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.