Over the past year, nearly every documentation platform rolled out an AI chatbot. But almost all of them followed the exact same monetisation playbook: high monthly subscriptions ($100 to $500/mo), query caps, and vendor lock-in on your own search index.
With docmd, we took the opposite approach: what if the AI assistant was simply a native, free feature of the open-source documentation generator itself?
We are making docmd fully AI-native. With the 0.9.1 release, docmd Assistant brings native Bring-Your-Own-Key AI chat (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama), a 100% free cloud relay, stdio MCP servers for Cursor and Claude Desktop, and automated llms.txt manifests to your documentation with zero SaaS fees and zero extra configuration. A complete open-source alternative to $200/mo paid documentation platforms.
A lightweight macOS menu bar app that tracks AI usage, remaining quotas, balances and provider health across your favourite AI services. Currently supports 7 AI services, including Claude, Codex, GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi K, MiniMax, OpenRouter and more to add.
