Developer Documentation — Interim Handover

A technical writer and developer pair have been working on the developer guide for a new internal CLI tool (devctl). The technical writer is going on parental leave and needs to ensure another writer can continue. You need to produce a document that allows the replacement to pick up work immediately.

What has been written

• Getting Started guide: covers installation (macOS, Linux), authentication setup, and the first three commands (devctl init, devctl login, devctl status); published to the internal docs site at https://docs.internal/devctl/
• Command reference for 8 of 22 commands: init, login, status, run, stop, logs, config get, config set
• One how-to guide: "Connecting to a remote environment"
• All written content is in the docs/devctl/ directory; the source format is Markdown, rendered by MkDocs

What still needs to be done

• Command reference for the remaining 14 commands
• Three planned how-to guides: "Managing secrets", "Setting up CI integration", and "Migrating from the legacy oldctl tool"
• The migration guide requires input from the platform team about breaking changes — this input has not been gathered yet
• A glossary page was planned but never started

Context for the replacement

• The CLI developer (Alex) is the subject-matter expert and is available Tuesdays and Thursdays for a 30-minute Q&A slot
• The style guide is at docs/devctl/style-guide.md; all content must follow it
• Screenshots in the docs are stored in docs/devctl/assets/ — the current screenshots are from CLI version 1.2; version 1.3 was released last week and some screenshots may be outdated

Open questions

• Should the migration guide wait for the platform team input, or start with a skeleton now?
• Are the outdated screenshots a blocker for the 14 remaining command reference pages, or can they be addressed in a follow-up pass?
• The glossary has no agreed-upon scope — it's unclear if it should cover just CLI terms or the whole platform

Write the handoff document.