Tech docs integration?

[mattinmelbourne]

This is a 2 part question? Is there any tech docs integration with this? Ie a user can ask a question and possible tech docs suggestions are provided?

And with the ai functionality, can it read tech docs information and provide an answer based on the information it knows from tech docs?

Cheers,

[drodil]

Hi,

Thanks for the question. At the moment, there's no integration with the TechDocs. The suggestions would most probably come through AI integration for the questions but that doesn't work out of the box as the default OpenAI module just passes the question as is to the API. Of course, there is a possibility to modify this by making your own AI implementation that uses either TechDocs APIs or Search API to provide more context on top of the question (see https://github.com/drodil/backstage-plugin-qeta/blob/main/docs/ai.md). We already have this kind of solution in our own Backstage instance and I demoed it at the December and February community sessions if you are interested.

What I would probably like to add is a new TechDocs addon that would allow asking questions about TechDocs content in the Q&A plugin (https://backstage.io/docs/features/techdocs/addons#creating-an-addon) but that's another story I think.

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