Chimera-LAB

chimera-lab is an open-source ecosystem where documentation stays alive instead of going stale.

The core problem: in multi-repository organizations, docs drift. Structure diverges. Conventions fragment. chimera-lab solves this with three interlocking mechanisms.

Living directives — Markdown files embed structured markers that get resolved automatically. A directive regenerates a repository index from the actual GitHub org. Another rebuilds the table of contents. Another generates sections from inferable context. Docs are rendered, not hand-maintained.

Fragments — Content from one repository can be included in another. A shared section lives once and composes automatically into org-level documentation. This is the collaboration primitive: teams write in their own repository, the organization assembles the result.

Updatable templates — GitHub's native template system creates a repository and severs the connection. chimera-lab keeps the link alive by tracking templates as persistent Git references. When a template is updated upstream, each repository can pull those changes on its own schedule. The hierarchy — base template to specialized templates — means a structural fix at the root becomes available to every repository in the chain.

The long-term goal is a self-documenting publishing pipeline where every repository in the organization — knowledge topics, projects, tools — feeds a content site generated directly from the filesystem and git history. No database, no manual curation.