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Retire DeepWiki across the fleet #237
Description
DeepWiki (Cognition's AI-generated wiki over public repos) has been part of every Lentago repo's front door since the 2026-07 brand-header round. It is not earning its place: the fleet's own docs are written to be read directly, and the grounded Ask surface the practice actually stands behind is mitchella's. Chris's call, 2026-10-07: ditch it entirely.
Decisions (2026-10-07)
- Whole sweep: every surface below, in one
.githubPR plus one PR per repo. - The 17
deepwiki.comrepo homepages infleet-ops/repos.jsonare cleared, not replaced. - asclepias Lab 00 "Ask the fleet" is deleted outright (it is built on DeepWiki); every link to it goes with it, and the labs stay numbered from 01.
- The retirement is recorded as fleet ADR-0010.
- Historical records keep their mentions: the ADRs that cite DeepWiki as context at the time (asclepias 0001/0002/0005, .github 0008), the generated fleet reports, theoria's README snapshots, and the archived repos.
Where it lives
| Surface | What |
|---|---|
| badge row | Ask DeepWiki badge emitted by brand/generate.py into every README header block (20 READMEs, 27 generated blocks) |
| README section | ## 📚 Ask this codebase (DeepWiki) with the big badge and good-first-questions (~15 READMEs) |
| README footer | the canonical footer in docs/voice.md ends "…read this repo on DeepWiki" — propagated fleet-wide, incl. lupinus's six story pages |
| org profile | big badge + blurb, "DeepWiki ↗" sublink on 8 product rows, a note under the table, and a numbered step |
| repo settings | homepage for 17 repos in fleet-ops/repos.json (Terraform-enforced) |
| asclepias | Lab 00; onboarding/day-one.md step 4; glossary + pattern-catalog rows; CLAUDE.md; README |
| lupinus | CLAUDE.md; six story footers |
| solidago | .mcp.json registers the DeepWiki MCP server |
| org GitHub App | devin-ai-integration, installed org-wide 2026-07-04 with contents/workflows/members permissions — uninstall in the org settings UI (no API) |
| local | deepwiki MCP server in ~/.claude.json |
Checklist
- fleet: retire DeepWiki — generator, footer, profile, homepages, ADR-0010 #238 (merged 2026-10-07) —
.githubPR: generator, canonical footer, profile, homepages, own README, regenerated header blocks, ADR-0010 - per-repo PRs (badge + section + footer) — all merged 2026-10-07: fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause betula#127, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause brasenia#24, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause claytonia#135, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause drosera#249, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause epigaea#528, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause kalmia#138, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge mitchella#22, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, footer clause monarda#14, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause cpitzi/music-curator#93, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause osmunda#9, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause repo-template#24, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause shared-workflows#66, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause site-icecreamtofightwith-com#199, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause site-lentago-dev#96, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause site-pondviewlane-com#85, fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause,
.mcp.jsonsolidago#211 (+.mcp.json), fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, footer clause uvularia#89 - coderabbit: footer only — fleet: retire DeepWiki — footer clause coderabbit#4 (merged 2026-10-07)
- asclepias: delete Lab 00 and its links, day-one step 4, glossary/pattern-catalog rows, CLAUDE.md, README — fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, README section, footer clause, Lab 00 asclepias#15 (also the lab-run issue form's dropdown and the day-one intro/ladder/done lines, which the survey missed) (merged 2026-10-07)
- lupinus: CLAUDE.md, six story footers, README — fleet: retire DeepWiki — header badge, footer clause, story footers lupinus#16 (merged 2026-10-07)
- local
deepwikiMCP server removed (2026-10-07) - Chris: uninstall the
devin-ai-integrationorg app
Activity
cpitzi commentedon Oct 7, 2026
Sweep landed 2026-10-07: #238 merged and applied (all 17
deepwiki.comhomepages cleared — nolentagorepo homepage points at DeepWiki now), and the 20 per-repo PRs listed in the checklist all merged through auto-merge. Verified againstmainin each repo: no DeepWiki mention remains outsidedocs/adr/and the generated fleet reports; asclepiaslabs/00-ask-the-fleet.mdand solidago.mcp.jsonare gone.Two notes from the sweep:
brand/generated/before this sweep (monarda, osmunda, shared-workflows, and coderabbit has none). Left alone here; tracked as brand: README header blocks drifted from brand/generated in monarda, osmunda, shared-workflows; coderabbit has none #239.What remains is the one UI-only item: uninstalling the
devin-ai-integrationorg app.cpitzi commentedon Oct 7, 2026
Cleanup note (2026-10-07, ~03:10Z). A parallel session dispatched 20 duplicate per-repo issues/jobs three minutes after the hand sweep above had already merged. All 20 duplicate issues are closed; 7 jobs were pulled before pickup, 13 ran against already-clean repos. The epic body was briefly overwritten and has been restored from edit history.
Two of those runs found something real: the README header blocks of monarda and osmunda had drifted from
brand/generated/(old tagline in the alt text, older badge set). Re-scoped as monarda#15 → monarda#16 and osmunda#10 → osmunda#11; arming on CodeRabbit. A fleet-wide check against GitHubmainfinds no other drift (.githubandshared-workflowscarry an intentional extra OpenSSF Scorecard badge) and no remainingdeepwikimention in any README or in solidago's.mcp.json.Two things noticed along the way, not acted on:
coderabbitis not a registered bullpen project (its job failed withunknown project), andcoderabbitplus the sixuvularia-*satellites carry no brand header block at all.