Dosu

Dosu is a knowledge infrastructure platform built for engineering teams and AI coding agents, developed by a San Francisco-based team led by CEO Devin Stein. It automatically captures knowledge from the work teams are already doing — code changes, pull requests, Slack conversations — and keeps documentation current without requiring engineers to manually write or update it. The platform is SOC 2 Type II certified and, according to the company, is used by over 200,000 engineers.

What It Is

Dosu sits at the intersection of documentation automation and AI agent infrastructure. Rather than being a static knowledge base that depends on humans to maintain it, Dosu acts as a living layer that monitors code changes, PR activity, and team conversations to generate and update documentation automatically. It exposes this knowledge to AI coding agents via an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, reducing token usage and improving consistency across agent sessions. For human engineers, it surfaces up-to-date context through integrations with tools like Slack, Confluence, Notion, and Coda.

How the Knowledge Capture Workflow Works

Dosu's workflow is structured in three steps:

• Connect your tools: Install Dosu on GitHub or GitLab to monitor repository changes. Add it to Slack or MS Teams for conversational knowledge capture. Sync existing docs from Notion, Confluence, Coda, or your repo.
• Connect your coding agent: Add the Dosu MCP Server with a single shell command. The agent then gets access to consistent, token-efficient context from all connected tools and automatically contributes knowledge back after each session.
• Ship faster: Dosu maintains living documentation — including AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and skill definitions — that stays current as code evolves.

Self-Documenting PRs are a core feature: whenever code changes, Dosu identifies documentation gaps and makes necessary updates automatically, directly in the repository.

Agent Infrastructure and MCP Integration

A key differentiator is Dosu's MCP Server, which gives coding agents (Claude, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, Windsurf, and others) access to a shared, team-wide knowledge base during every session. The company positions this as replacing a tangle of individual MCP servers with a single consistent source of knowledge. Shared knowledge infrastructure is described as reducing token usage, increasing agent speed, and keeping implementations consistent between sessions — though specific performance figures on the homepage are presented as illustrative targets rather than measured outcomes.

Audience and Deployment Model

Dosu targets three distinct audiences:

• Individual developers: Free tier available for public repositories, plus access to Dosu Public Spaces for open-source tools.
• Engineering teams: Collaborative knowledge base with private repository support, SaaS integrations, observability dashboards, and up to 100 team members.
• Enterprise organizations: Custom credits, SSO, custom RBAC, audit logs, custom integrations, self-hosting options, and white-glove support.

For open-source maintainers, Dosu offers a dedicated OSS tier that includes automatic GitHub issue labeling, issue deduplication, and public-facing Q&A via Dosu Public Spaces.

Platform Integrations

Dosu connects to a broad set of developer and collaboration tools:

• Version control: GitHub, GitLab (public and private repositories)
• Documentation platforms: Confluence, Notion, Coda
• Communication: Slack, Microsoft Teams
• Project management: Linear
• AI coding agents: Claude, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, Windsurf, and more via MCP

The company emphasizes a no-migration philosophy: Dosu syncs and maintains docs where they already live rather than requiring teams to move to a new platform.

Current Status

Dosu is actively available with a free tier, a Pro plan, and an Enterprise plan. The company reports SOC 2 Type II certification and states that over 200,000 engineers are using the platform. The Dosu CLI (curl -fsSL https://cli.dosu.dev/install | sh) is the primary setup path for agent integration. The team is based in San Francisco at 1841 Market St.