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Ask HN: Should you open-source your Claude Code project docs with the repo?

A Hacker News user is asking whether to open-source documentation generated by Claude Code, such as specs and project planning, alongside a repository, noting uncertainty about standard practice for including such AI-generated docs.

read1 min views23 publishedSep 3, 2026

| |||||||||||| 1 point by | I want to open source a repo, but the repo has a lot of docs that were generated in the process over months - specs, milestones, project planning, etc. I am ok open sourcing it, but it seems a bit unnecessary - what is the standard practice for this? | ||||||||||| |

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