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Documentation taxonomy

Every entry is organised in two levels: the top level follows the adopter’s journey; inside each domain, content is written as the standard document types from Diátaxis, ISO/IEC/IEEE 26514, and the Good Docs Project.

Domain The question it answers Typical document types
Assess Should we adopt this? Explanation, Model-Card intended-use & limitations, evaluation/benchmarks, license & openness, provenance, EU AI Act
Implement How do we deploy it? Quickstart, install/deploy how-tos, hardware/quantization reference, tutorial, fine-tuning
Use What can it do and how? Capabilities & prompt-template reference, task how-tos, concepts
Support How do we keep it running? Troubleshooting, release notes, security disclosure, community

Classic software-documentation frameworks (Diátaxis and the tutorial/how-to/reference/ explanation sites) assume you’ve already chosen the tool - they have no “should I adopt this?” category. But that decision is exactly what the AI/ML Model Card tradition documents (intended use, limitations, evaluation). For a library whose purpose is the adopt-or-not decision, Assess has to be first-class - a deliberate, well-precedented extension for models.

The full rationale and cross-framework grounding is in the repository.