Your CI/CD Pipeline Has a Blind Spot (and It's Not What You Think)

Your pipeline catches a missing semicolon in thirty seconds. It runs four thousand unit tests, flags security vulnerabilities, checks code style, enforces branch naming conventions, and sends a slightly passive-aggressive Slack notification if someone pushes directly to main. It does not check whether your API documentation still describes your API. Think about this for a second. Your docs are the first thing a developer reads before integrating with your product. If your quickstart references a token format you stopped using in January, you'll find out from a support ticket three weeks later. Not from your pipeline. Your pipeline doesn't know the docs exist. The docs don't know the pipeline exists. They're roommates who've never met, living in the same repository, communicating through the medium of customer frustration. Here's how to introduce them. One afternoon. Zero budget. Step 1: Lint your prose like you lint your code Vale is an open-source linter for prose. You give it rules.