Manny Silva
Skyflow
Self-Healing Docs: How Agents are Redefining the Docs Pipeline
About the talk
Static documentation is giving way to dynamic, self-healing systems that proactively detect and resolve issues before they impact users. In this session, we’ll explore how advanced AI agents—integrated with content generation and testing tools—are upending expectations of docs pipelines by autonomously identifying inaccuracies, updating outdated references, and maintaining consistency across vast documentation sets.
You'll learn how embedding self-healing capabilities into your docs-as-code or CMS pipelines can dramatically reduce manual maintenance, enhance accuracy, and free technical writers to focus on creative, high-value tasks. We’ll share real-world case studies and practical strategies for implementing documentation systems that continuously verify and repair content, ensuring your API documentation and developer portals stay reliable and resilient to rapid product changes.
Join us to discover practices that are reshaping the future of documentation and what it means to be a technical content owner.
About the speaker
Technical writer by day, engineer by night, and father everywhere in between, Manny wears many (figurative) hats. He's passionate about intuitive and scalable developer experiences, and he likes diving into the deep end as the 0th user.
Here are a few things that keep him busy:
• Head of Docs at Skyflow, a data privacy vault company
• Author of [Docs as Tests: A Strategy for Resilient Technical Documentation](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1H97QSL) and the [Docs as Tests blog](www.docsastests.com)
• Creator and maintainer of [Doc Detective](www.doc-detective.com), an open-source doc testing framework
• AI development and experimentation
He's always looking for collaborators on his projects, and he loves chatting with folks, so don't hesitate to reach out.
