Do Agents Need Quickstart Guides?
The article discusses the importance of quickstart guides for agents working with complex documentation. It highlights a case study involving Infisical, where the addition of a quickstart guide significantly improved the agent's performance. The author concludes that even as companies reduce documentation teams, quickstart guides can enhance understanding and efficiency.
- ▪Companies are laying off documentation teams, leading to questions about the necessity of guides.
- ▪A case study with Infisical showed that agents performed better when provided with a quickstart guide.
- ▪The quickstart guide helped the agent complete tasks faster and with fewer resources.
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| Original publisher | Techstackups |
| Canonical URL | https://techstackups.com/guides/agents-still-need-docs/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:20:06 +0000 |
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Do Agents need Quickstart Guides?April 13, 2026 · 10 min readLewis DwyerSoftware engineer and technical writerCompanies are laying off their entire documentation teams. Who needs them, when agents can figure stuff out without documentation, or write documentation themselves? But I've been noticing that even when building with agents, quickstart guides seem to help. We first saw this while working on documentation for a client: before the quickstart existed, agents struggled to produce anything that was a good representation of the product's features. After it was published, agents found it, followed it, and the results were noticeably better.
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