Swimm is a SaaS product that automatically documents your codebase using AI. It keeps documentation up to date with changes, facilitates code understanding, and integrates seamlessly with existing tools. It supports various programming languages and is designed to enhance developer productivity by ensuring comprehensive, up-to-date code documentation.
Features
Auto-generate documentation
Automatically document your entire codebase, from legacy to modern.
Update documents automatically
Documentation updates itself with every code change to keep your knowledge base current.
AI-guided code understanding
Understand context around the code with AI to facilitate knowledge transfer and onboarding.
Integrated developer platform
Integrates seamlessly into your workflow with popular tools like GitHub, VS Code, and more.
Complete documentation coverage
Supports language-specific, including legacy languages, and automatically formats code into tutorials or guides.
Modernizing legacy code
Helps in updating and improving older code bases to enhance efficiency and compatibility.
Documentation platform
Provides a structured way to create and manage code documentation, making it easier for developers to understand and utilize.
AI-ready infrastructure
Supports the integration and utilization of AI technologies to improve workflows and processes.
Maintaining legacy code
Offers tools and strategies to efficiently manage and sustain older code bases, ensuring they remain functional and relevant.
Documentation in the CI
Automatically ensures documentation is synchronized with code changes to prevent outdated information.
Improve document quality
Leverages best practices and AI to enhance the quality of existing documentation.
Auto-generate documentation
Utilizes protocols and architecture to automatically generate relevant documentation based on code changes and dependencies.
Answers on demand with AI
Employs AI to answer developer questions, providing context and solutions instantly as they work.
Create a culture of documentation
Encourages a documentation-first approach, streamlining the process of writing and maintaining documentation through integrated tools and processes.
Automatic Code Documentation Generation
Automatically generate and backfill missing documentation to keep code consistently documented.
System and Code Diagrams
Create visual diagrams of the system and code to maintain a clear overview and understanding.
Legacy Code Analysis
Analyze legacy code to understand its structure and relations, facilitating modernization and maintenance.
Quality Assurance Integration
Ensure the code is backed by high-quality documentation for better code reliability.
TechDocs by Backstage
TechDocs is a docs-as-code solution built directly into Backstage by Spotify. It helps developers create and discover technical documentation using sources like Confluence, Google Docs, or README files, and surfaces information such as when documentation was last updated and GitHub issue numbers.
Swimm and Backstage Integration
The integration allows technical documentation to be kept up to date automatically, ensuring that the content is accessible and reducing the burden on developers to manually update docs.
AI-ready Infrastructure
Provides AI-ready infrastructure for enterprises, allowing teams to centralize, organize, and optimize code documentation.
Always Accurate, Always Up-to-Date
Ensures that your codebase documentation is always accurate and up-to-date to support development processes.
Expand Organizational Knowledge
Helps organizations build, manage, and maintain institutional knowledge across team members.
Codebase Analysis
Utilizes expertise to analyze codebases, recognizing patterns to create a comprehensive understanding of the code.
Capture Unstructured Knowledge
Automatically captures and documents insights from Slack conversations or ad-hoc meetings to keep your knowledge base updated.
Right Context, No Hallucinations
Ensures AI systems have the right context, avoiding misinformation or irrelevant data by linking documentation to the specific code.
Continuously Improving
Enables documentation to evolve with your code, supporting ongoing education and adaptation for teams.
Automatic Documentation
Automatically documents entire codebases and creates detailed maps.
Updates with Changes
Keeps documentation in sync with code changes, ensuring accuracy.
JIT Documentation
Provides just-in-time documentation for developers, enhancing relevancy.
IDE Integration
Integrated with both common industry and custom IDEs to support developers with real-time code awareness.
Visualize Code Flow
Create documentation that matches and maps developer’s cognitive flow.
Doc Rules
Prevents repeated coding mistakes by enforcing doc patterns, guides, and standards.
Code-coupled documentation
Automatically synchronizes documentation with code updates to keep them aligned.
Built-in IDE/WebApp integration
Allows you to integrate documentation directly into your IDE or web application for seamless access.
Language-agnostic support
Supports multiple programming languages for more flexible documentation.
Local model evaluation
Keeps your code data local and secure by evaluating models on-premise or in your private cloud.
Deep integration with CI/CD
Ensures all documentation is checked and validated during continuous integration/continuous delivery processes.
Advanced flow diagrams
Automatically generates flow diagrams from your codebase to provide visual aids.
VS Code
Create, maintain, and discover all of your documentation in VS Code.
GitHub
Integrate documentation into your CI & keep docs up to date automatically.
JetBrains
Create, maintain, and discover all of your documentation in JetBrains.
GitHub Copilot Extension
Turn GitHub Copilot Chat outputs into documentation.
GitLab
Integrate documentation into your CI & keep docs up to date automatically.
Bitbucket
Integrate documentation into your CI & keep docs up to date automatically.
IntelliJ
Create, maintain, and discover all of your documentation in IntelliJ.
PyCharm
Create, maintain, and discover all of your documentation in PyCharm.
WebStorm
Create, maintain, and discover all of your documentation in WebStorm.
Rider
Create, maintain, and discover all of your documentation in Rider.
PhpStorm
Create, maintain, and discover all of your documentation in PhpStorm.
Android Studio
Create, maintain, and discover all of your documentation in Android Studio.
Azure DevOps Services
Integrate documentation into your CI & keep docs up to date automatically.
Backstage
Integrate Swimm documentation into your Backstage software catalog.
Slack
Get notified when documentation is created, viewed, or updated.
Mermaid
Create diagrams and charts that stay up to date with Swimm Smart Tokens.
Compass
Connect Swimm docs to components in Compass by Atlassian.
gitStream
Powered by LinearB: Automate doc-related pull requests.
AI-Augmented Documentation
Swimm's platform automatically generates, updates, and maintains accurate, context-aware documentation in real time, integrating with the developer's workflow. It helps teams quickly understand databases and codebases, especially when dealing with legacy systems.
Code Mapping
Uses deterministic static analysis to identify classes, functions, and logical components in the codebase to understand the structure and relationships.
Context Retrieval
Determines relevant context for specific topics or questions, ensuring precise documentation grounded in code context rather than AI guesses.
Generation with LLMs
Incorporates large language models (LLMs) to generate structured, easy-to-understand documentation from code.
Acceptance Rate Tracking
Tracks how often generated documentation is committed, serving as feedback on its accuracy and usefulness.
User Satisfaction Metric
Measures user feedback to improve the system's output with ongoing feedback.
Collaboration Improvement
Facilitates feedback through "back to comments" features to ensure content gets revised, incorporated, and improved.
Support for Modern and Legacy Languages
Includes Language Plugins to handle both modern and legacy programming languages effectively, with options for custom plugins for specific language and file formats.
AI-Powered Documentation
Swimm for GitHub Copilot automates the documentation process by integrating with AI, providing documentation suggestions based on code context.
Conversation Starter with Copilot Chat
Users can start a conversation with GitHub Copilot chat to ask questions about the code, such as what the code does or how to use it.
Automatic Documentation Generation
Generates documentation automatically by suggesting content whenever new code is added or existing code is updated.
Detects and Fills Knowledge Gaps
The extension can suggest and add documentation where it detects missing information, thereby ensuring code comprehension.
Code-Coupled Documentation
Tightly integrates documentation with the actual code, helping teams maintain up-to-date and relevant information.
Automatic Documentation Generation
Utilizes code analysis and machine learning to automatically generate documentation for legacy code which is often under-documented, aiding developers in understanding code bases quickly.
Integration with Swimm Platform
Built directly into the Swimm platform, it integrates with existing workflows to provide seamless and continuous documentation generation as code changes.
Example of Auto-docs
Provides detailed examples of how auto-docs look, including code snippets and explanations directly within the documentation for better clarity.
Developer Code Understanding
Focuses on providing developers with a comprehensive understanding of the existing codebase to facilitate more efficient refactoring.
Incremental Changes
Advocates for making small, manageable changes over time rather than large overhauls to improve stability and maintainability.
Tackle Old and New Tasks
Encourages teams to simultaneously address existing technical debt while implementing new features.
Evaluate Legacy Code
Recognizes that not all legacy code should be treated equally and emphasizes assessing the need and value of refactoring different parts of the code.
Continuous Refactoring Culture
Promotes a mindset within teams to continuously improve and refactor code as an ongoing practice to maintain code quality and reduce technical debt.