SaturnDocs: documentation written for agents

Alec Reynolds is co-founder of SaturnDocs, with Sean Knight, and created Lando, the local development environment. Luca Berton talked to him at Cloudflare Connect 2026 in San Francisco on 21 October 2026. SaturnDocs, in Alec’s one-sentence version, is “docs written by agents for agents”.

Who reads the docs now

Most of the readers of modern software documentation, technical or customer-facing, are now agents, he says. They often evaluate a product through its documentation. If an agent cannot find the docs and get its first task done with them, it will not recommend the product to the developer who sent it looking.

The features most documentation sites added for this, a “copy this prompt” button or a chat bot, are still built for people.

Agent surfaces first

SaturnDocs starts with what Alec calls agent-ready surfaces: an llms.txt file, and an MCP server that does a good job. More and more teams also want authenticated MCP and authenticated documentation, because they do not want their docs scraped to reproduce their product, or because the docs are only for paying customers.

He compares it to old-school SEO: checking off the boxes and getting the metadata right. “That’s just table stakes.”

Built after the agents arrived

Asked how it differs from other documentation platforms, Alec names Mintlify, Docusaurus, GitBook and Read the Docs. Most of them came into prominence around 2020 or earlier, with the assumption of a human editor and human readers. “They’re not really built for the agentic era.”

Skills, and prompt injection

Beyond the surfaces, the work is to expose the content to agents in smarter ways and shorten their time to first task. Part of that is making sure agents find the skills relevant to a product, either generated by SaturnDocs or taken from an existing skills library, for use in Claude Code and similar tools.

That runs into a real constraint: agent harnesses are built to resist prompt injection. SaturnDocs has to make sure an agent can use those skills without taking them for an attempt to inject malicious prompts.

How to try it

SaturnDocs is early and works with pilot customers. The way in is saturndocs.com, and one of the founders gets back to you.

And the name? Sean Knight spent time at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has always been inspired by space. Alec reads science fiction too, the more terrestrial kind.

More

The episode with Alec Reynolds is being produced and goes out on YouTube first. Who he is: Alec Reynolds of SaturnDocs. Everyone the show has met there: SaturnDocs on Udienza.