This project is a documentation best practices guide and a technical documentation framework focused on creating high-quality project README files. It provides a set of structural principles and a README writing guide to improve project discoverability and usability for open source contributors.
The framework employs a cognitive funneling structure to organize information from high-level summaries down to deep technical details. It includes a standardized documentation quality checklist to audit technical documents for essential elements, such as license information and installation steps.
The guide covers developer experience optimization, information architecture planning, and API documentation design. It emphasizes the use of runnable examples and standardized API formatting to reduce cognitive load for users evaluating a tool.
