Free forever. Hosted when you want it.
The CLI is open source and free — always. Pro and Team add hosting and cross-repo visibility on top.
Free
The open-source CLI, self-hosted.
- Full wikipilot CLI (generate, build, serve)
- Freshness contract on every page
- Full-text search & Mermaid diagrams
- Ask-the-wiki AI assistant (bring your own API key)
- Host the output anywhere you like
Pro
Skip the hosting. Skip the API key too.
- Everything in Free
- Hosted wiki at <project>.wikipilot.dev
- AI assistant included — no API key to set up or pay for separately
- One command deploy, no server to run
- Automatic HTTPS & CDN
- Priority support
Team
For teams tracking more than one repo.
- Everything in Pro
- Cross-repo wiki dashboard
- Staleness alerts to Slack & GitHub
- Org-wide search
- Seats for the whole team
Questions people actually ask
Wiki Pilot is an open-source command-line tool that scans a code repository and generates a browsable documentation wiki from it. Each page records which source files it was built from, so pages that have fallen behind the code can be identified instead of guessed at. Install it with npm install -g wikipilot.
Docusaurus, GitBook, Notion-as-docs — they all render nicely, and then nobody touches the content again. Wiki Pilot's difference is unglamorous: it records which source files a page came from and which commit it was verified at. Change those files without updating the page and the page says so, rather than sitting there looking finished.
Yes. Running wikipilot init asks which kind of wiki you want — technical, user guide, or both — and drafts sections to match. A user guide gets Getting Started, Guides, FAQ, and Troubleshooting; a technical wiki gets How It Works, Technologies, Reference, and Cookbook. Pass --preset technical, --preset user-guide, or --preset all to skip the question.
No. Drafting, building, and serving a wiki run entirely on your machine with no external service and no key. An Anthropic API key is only needed for the optional ask-the-wiki assistant.
wikipilot build outputs plain static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into a directory. Host that on GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, S3, or any web server — there is no backend to run. The optional AI assistant is the one part that needs a server, and you point the built site at it with --agent-url.
Yes. Wiki Pilot reads the repository's file structure, README, and package manifest rather than parsing one language's syntax, so it isn't tied to a particular stack.
Yes, MIT licensed, and it stays that way. The source is on GitHub and the package is published on npm. Only the hosted Pro and Team tiers are a paid product.
wikipilot init also writes a Claude Code skill into your repo. Asking Claude Code to update the wiki makes it diff each page's declared sources since that page's last verified commit, re-read the files that changed, and rewrite the affected prose. Pages it can't confidently update are marked as needing review instead of being rewritten on a guess.