Content Mentor VS Code Extension
Content Mentor is a Visual Studio Code extension that provides AI-powered assistance for authoring, editing, and managing Markdown and YAML content, especially for Microsoft Learn and documentation scenarios. It integrates with GitHub Copilot Chat and offers a wide range of productivity features for content creators.
Key Features
- AI Chat Participant: Adds a
@content-mentor chat participant to Copilot Chat, providing domain-specific help for documentation tasks.
- Content Suggestions: Use AI to suggest quick or detailed edits, improvements based on customer feedback, and engagement or SEO enhancements.
- Metadata Generation: Automatically generate or update metadata such as title, description, customer intent, and ms.date fields.
- Markdown Auto-Fix: One-click command to automatically fix common Markdown formatting issues (lists, images, tables, links, alerts, spacing, and more) with customizable rules.
- Link Validation: Detect and validate all links in documents, checking for broken URLs, timeouts, and redirects with detailed reporting.
- Word to Markdown Conversion: Convert Word documents (
.docx) to Markdown directly within VS Code.
- Table of Contents (TOC) Management: Visual TOC tree view for managing documentation structure, including adding, moving, and deleting TOC items.
- Redirects and File Management: Easily create redirects, move files with automatic redirect creation, and find unreferenced files.
- Verify Against UI: Automatically verify documentation against live portal UIs -- an AI agent walks through article steps in the browser, compares text and screenshots, scrubs PII, and draws callout annotations.
- Generate Doc Set (preview): Draft a full set of related articles for a new product from local source code in one workflow. The agent proposes an article lineup (audience, per-article topic type, sections, rationale); you iterate the plan in plain English, then approve to write the whole set in one go. Each article is built in its own fresh Copilot session so cancel and retry stay clean.
- Feedback Integration: View and send feedback, including UUF (User Update Feedback) integration.
- Prompt Library: Access a library of reusable prompts for common documentation tasks.
- Social Media Suggestions: Generate content suggestions for social media sharing.
- Release Plan Guidance: Get AI-powered suggestions for release plans and product overviews.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Quickly manage TOC items and other features with built-in keybindings.
Documentation
Content Mentor is powered by AI. Review all output carefully before use.
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