{"slug": "ask-hn-should-you-open-source-your-claude-code-project-docs-with-the-repo", "title": "Ask HN: Should you open-source your Claude Code project docs with the repo?", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||\n1 point by |\nI 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? | |||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-should-you-open-source-your-claude-code-project-docs-with-the-repo", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545476", "published_at": "2026-09-03 02:59:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-03 03:22:04.118377+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Hacker News", "Claude Code"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-should-you-open-source-your-claude-code-project-docs-with-the-repo", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-should-you-open-source-your-claude-code-project-docs-with-the-repo.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-should-you-open-source-your-claude-code-project-docs-with-the-repo.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-should-you-open-source-your-claude-code-project-docs-with-the-repo.jsonld"}}