Great Docs is a new Python documentation tool from Rich Iannone at Posit that generates polished static doc sites in three commands. Built on top of Quarto, it auto-generates API references from docstrings, supports executable code blocks, and ships Markdown copies of every page along with llms.txt and llms-full.txt files so AI agents can consume your docs as easily as humans. The episode covers how it compares to Sphinx, MkDocs, Zensical, and Mintlify; how Quarto's freeze mechanism handles live-data and slow-benchmark edge cases; design details like live filter bars, version selectors driven by git tags, and tab sets for multi-OS install instructions; and a forward-looking roadmap that includes Claude Code-style skill installation and MCP server documentation. Posit's open source sustainability model — funded by enterprise products like Posit Connect — is also discussed, along with the collaborative nature of the Python docs tooling ecosystem.
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