Question
What is living documentation?
beginner
Quick Answer
Documentation should evolve with the agent — outdated docs are worse than no docs.
Example: You built a weekly research agent six months ago. Its original README described the data sources, trigger schedule, and output format. Since then you changed two data sources, added a filtering step, and moved the trigger from Monday to Wednesday. None of that is in the docs. A colleague tries to debug a failed run and spends two hours chasing a data source that no longer exists — because the documentation told them it did. The README didn't just fail to help. It actively misdirected.
This concept is part of Agent Lifecycle in the How to Think curriculum.
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