arxiv: 2604.26523 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-29 · 💻 cs.SE

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RepoDoc: A Knowledge Graph-Based Framework to Automatic Documentation Generation and Incremental Updates

Dong Xu , Mingwei Liu , Xiwen Wang , Jianfeng Zhong , Zibin Zheng

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keywords automatic documentation generationknowledge graphrepository analysisincremental updateslarge language modelssoftware maintenancemodule clustering

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The pith

RepoDoc builds a repository knowledge graph to generate structured documentation and target updates only to changed code sections.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

RepoDoc constructs a knowledge graph from a codebase to capture entities and their relationships as the basis for all documentation tasks. It clusters code into hierarchical modules and uses agents to query the graph for generating cross-referenced documents that include auto-created diagrams. The same graph supports incremental maintenance by tracing how changes propagate, so only affected documentation gets regenerated. A sympathetic reader would care because this addresses the common problem of documentation falling out of date in large, evolving projects while cutting the time and cost of producing it.

Core claim

RepoDoc extracts code entities and relationships into a repository knowledge graph, clusters related modules hierarchically, and deploys agents to produce modular, cross-referenced documentation with Mermaid diagrams. For updates, a bidirectional semantic impact propagation mechanism identifies every affected documentation fragment so that regeneration stays selective. On 24 repositories spanning eight languages, this yields 32.5 percent higher API coverage, 10.4 percent better completeness, three-times faster generation, and 85 percent fewer tokens than prior methods, with similar gains in update speed and recall.

What carries the argument

The repository knowledge graph (RepoKG) that extracts code entities and relationships, then supplies structured queries for module clustering, agent-based generation, and bidirectional change propagation.

If this is right

Generated documentation includes explicit cross-references and diagrams derived directly from the graph structure.
Only documentation tied to changed code paths needs regeneration, cutting update time by 73 percent and token use by 77 percent.
API coverage rises by 32.5 percent and overall completeness by 10.4 percent compared with existing LLM-based tools.
The same graph supports documentation tasks across eight programming languages without language-specific rewriting.
Update recall improves by 10.2 percent because propagation follows actual semantic dependencies rather than simple file diffs.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The graph could serve as a reusable index for other repository tasks such as code search or impact analysis beyond documentation.
Projects using continuous integration could trigger targeted doc regeneration on every commit that touches the graph.
If extraction misses certain implicit relationships, such as runtime plugin loading, documentation gaps would persist even after updates.
Long-term maintenance of the graph itself may become a new cost center once the initial documentation is produced.

Load-bearing premise

The knowledge graph extracted from source code accurately and completely represents all semantically important entities and their dependencies.

What would settle it

Apply a code change that adds or removes a cross-module dependency not captured by the graph extraction step and observe whether the update mechanism still regenerates every affected documentation section.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.26523 by Dong Xu, Jianfeng Zhong, Mingwei Liu, Xiwen Wang, Zibin Zheng.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Baseline problems: Left: RepoAgent uses physical file structure with template-based documentation; Right: CodeWiki view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: RepoDoc architecture. Blue arrows: full generation workflow; Red arrows: incremental update workflow; Black view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Clustering prompt and output example code entities. Concept Entity represents business concepts extracted via LLM analysis, capturing domain knowledge not explicit in code structure. Doc Entity stores generated documentation content in markdown format, enabling selective updates and cross-reference navigation between documents. The seven relationship types include calls (function invocations), implements … view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Skill-based agent architecture Agent Orchestrator. The orchestrator comprises an LLM and a task router. The LLM serves as the brain, responsible for understanding instructions, reasoning, and planning [13, 32]. The task router decomposes high-level plans from the LLM and dispatches tasks to appropriate skills. This design addresses the limitations of traditional single-agent approaches that rely on monol… view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: TQS box plot comparison Flask app Module Documentation 1. Module Overview Acts as the cognitive entry point for the reader, providing a high-level structural blueprint and defining the module's primary responsibilities. The visual architecture and component summaries help developers quickly mental-map where this specific piece fits within the broader system ecosystem. 2. API Reference 2.1 Class 2.2 Class A… view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Qualitative comparison: CodeWiki (left) vs Re view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Maintaining up-to-date, comprehensive documentation for large codebases is a persistent challenge. Recent progress in automated documentation has moved from template-based rules to large language models (LLMs), yet existing tools still process source code as flat fragments, producing isolated documents that lack semantic structure. This design also leads to excessive token consumption and slow generation, while failing to capture how code changes propagate across dependencies. We propose RepoDoc, a system that uses a repository knowledge graph (RepoKG) as the semantic foundation for the entire documentation lifecycle. Our framework consists of three stages: (1) RepoKG construction, which extracts code entities and their relationships; (2) module clustering, which groups code into functionally cohesive, hierarchical units; and (3) skillful agent-based generation, which queries the graph to create modular, cross-referenced documentation with auto-generated Mermaid diagrams. For incremental maintenance, a semantic impact propagation mechanism navigates the RepoKG bidirectionally to pinpoint all affected parts, allowing selective, targeted regeneration. Evaluated on 24 repositories across 8 programming languages, RepoDoc substantially outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives. It improves API coverage by 32.5% and completeness by 10.4%, while generating documentation 3x faster with 85% fewer tokens. For incremental updates, it cuts update time by 73% and token usage by 77%, and achieves 10.2% higher update recall, more accurately reflecting code changes in the regenerated documentation. The source code and experimental artifacts are available at https://github.com/SYSUSELab/RepoDoc.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

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RepoDoc integrates a repository knowledge graph with clustering and agent-based generation plus impact propagation to handle both initial docs and targeted updates more efficiently than flat LLM approaches. The main thing to know is that it reports clear practical gains on real codebases while releasing the code for inspection. What is new is the end-to-end pipeline: building RepoKG from entities and relations, hierarchical module clustering for cohesive units, agent-driven generation that includes Mermaid diagrams, and bidirectional semantic propagation to identify exactly what documentation needs refreshing after a change. This directly tackles the isolated-fragment problem in prior LLM documentation tools. The paper does well by providing public artifacts and running tests across 24 repositories in 8 languages. The numbers show 32.5% better API coverage, 10.4% higher completeness, 3x faster generation, and 85% fewer tokens; incremental updates cut time by 73% and tokens by 77% with 10.2% better recall. These are the kinds of metrics that matter for industrial maintenance. The softer spots are in the evaluation. Baseline selection, statistical testing, and how completeness was measured across raters are not fully detailed even in the full text, so it is worth checking for confounds such as repo size or language effects. The central assumption that the extracted graph captures all relevant semantics could limit results if extraction misses subtle dependencies. This paper is for software engineering researchers and tool builders working on automated documentation or LLM agents for code. Practitioners maintaining large codebases would get the most direct value from the released implementation. It deserves a serious referee because the claims are empirical, the code is open, and the integration is concrete enough to verify or extend. I recommend sending it to peer review.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces RepoDoc, a framework that constructs a repository knowledge graph (RepoKG) to support the full documentation lifecycle. It proceeds in three stages—RepoKG extraction of entities and relations, hierarchical module clustering, and agent-based generation that produces cross-referenced documents with Mermaid diagrams—plus a bidirectional semantic impact propagation mechanism for incremental updates. On 24 repositories spanning 8 languages the system is reported to improve API coverage by 32.5 % and completeness by 10.4 %, generate documentation 3× faster with 85 % fewer tokens, and for updates reduce time by 73 %, token usage by 77 %, and raise recall by 10.2 %.

Significance. If the empirical results hold under rigorous controls, the work offers a concrete, graph-centric alternative to flat LLM prompting for documentation tasks. The public release of code and artifacts is a clear strength that enables direct inspection of the extraction, clustering, and propagation components.

major comments (3)

[§4] §4 (Evaluation): The abstract and results section report aggregate improvements over “state-of-the-art alternatives” but provide no explicit list of the chosen baselines, their versions, or the rationale for their selection. Without this information the 32.5 % coverage and 10.4 % completeness gains cannot be interpreted as a fair comparison.
[§4.2] §4.2 (Incremental-update experiments): The 73 % time and 77 % token reductions are presented without statistical significance tests, confidence intervals, or controls for repository size and language. The 10.2 % recall improvement is therefore difficult to assess for robustness.
[§3.1] §3.1 (RepoKG construction): The claim that the extracted graph “accurately and completely captures all semantically relevant code entities” is central to both generation and propagation claims, yet no quantitative validation (e.g., precision/recall against a manually annotated gold graph) is reported.

minor comments (2)

[§3.3] Figure 3 and the accompanying text use “semantic impact propagation” without a formal definition or pseudocode; a concise algorithm box would improve clarity.
[§3.3] The paper states that documentation is generated “with auto-generated Mermaid diagrams” but does not report any metric for diagram correctness or readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which highlight opportunities to improve the clarity and rigor of our evaluation and claims. We address each major comment point by point below.

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Referee: [§4] §4 (Evaluation): The abstract and results section report aggregate improvements over “state-of-the-art alternatives” but provide no explicit list of the chosen baselines, their versions, or the rationale for their selection. Without this information the 32.5 % coverage and 10.4 % completeness gains cannot be interpreted as a fair comparison.

Authors: We agree that explicit details on the baselines are necessary for a fair and reproducible comparison. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated paragraph in §4 that enumerates the specific state-of-the-art alternatives, their versions, and the selection rationale (prominence in recent LLM-based documentation work and relevance to flat-prompting approaches). A summary table will also be included to facilitate direct assessment of the reported 32.5 % coverage and 10.4 % completeness gains. revision: yes
Referee: [§4.2] §4.2 (Incremental-update experiments): The 73 % time and 77 % token reductions are presented without statistical significance tests, confidence intervals, or controls for repository size and language. The 10.2 % recall improvement is therefore difficult to assess for robustness.

Authors: We acknowledge the lack of statistical controls in the incremental-update results. We will extend §4.2 to report paired statistical significance tests with p-values, 95 % confidence intervals for all key metrics, and additional subgroup analyses stratified by repository size and language. These additions will strengthen the evidence for the 73 % time reduction, 77 % token savings, and 10.2 % recall improvement. revision: yes
Referee: [§3.1] §3.1 (RepoKG construction): The claim that the extracted graph “accurately and completely captures all semantically relevant code entities” is central to both generation and propagation claims, yet no quantitative validation (e.g., precision/recall against a manually annotated gold graph) is reported.

Authors: We recognize that a direct precision/recall evaluation against a manually annotated gold graph would be desirable. However, constructing such gold standards for 24 repositories spanning eight languages and thousands of entities is not practically feasible. We will revise §3.1 to moderate the claim, explicitly stating that graph quality is supported indirectly by the consistent downstream gains in documentation coverage, completeness, and update recall. This indirect validation is standard when exhaustive component-level annotation is intractable. revision: partial

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No significant circularity; empirical claims rest on external evaluation

full rationale

The paper proposes a three-stage framework (RepoKG construction, module clustering, agent-based generation) plus an incremental propagation mechanism, then reports concrete performance deltas from running the system on 24 repositories across 8 languages. No equations, fitted parameters, or first-principles derivations are presented whose outputs are shown to be equivalent to their inputs by construction. The central claims are statistical comparisons against external baselines; the released code and artifacts make the evaluation independently inspectable. No self-citation is invoked as a load-bearing uniqueness theorem or ansatz. This is the normal, non-circular case for an applied systems paper.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 2 invented entities

The framework rests on domain assumptions about accurate entity extraction and clustering quality rather than new physical entities or fitted constants; no free parameters are explicitly introduced in the abstract.

axioms (2)

domain assumption Code entities and their relationships can be reliably extracted from source code to form a complete repository knowledge graph.
Invoked in the first stage of RepoKG construction.
domain assumption Module clustering produces functionally cohesive hierarchical units suitable for modular documentation.
Required for the second stage to enable cross-referenced output.

invented entities (2)

RepoKG no independent evidence
purpose: Semantic foundation for the entire documentation lifecycle
Newly proposed structure that stores code entities and relationships.
semantic impact propagation mechanism no independent evidence
purpose: Bidirectional navigation to identify all documentation affected by a code change
Introduced to enable selective incremental regeneration.

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