Glossary

Term

Definition

ADR

Architecture Decision Record. A document that captures an important architectural decision and its context and consequences.

AST

Abstract Syntax Tree. A tree representation of the abstract syntactic structure of source code. In our case, of a documentation project.

Atomic Write

An operation that is guaranteed to either complete fully or not at all, preventing partially-written, corrupted data.

Hierarchical Path

A human-readable path used to identify a specific section within the documentation project, e.g., chapter-1.section-2.

MCP

Model Context Protocol. A specification for how LLM-based agents should interact with external tools and data sources.

Structure Index

The in-memory data structure that holds the metadata of the entire documentation project for fast lookups.