Auto-GPT developer documentation 📔

[Pwuts]

Auto-GPT is an experimental project, where we want to encourage involvement and empower anyone to contribute. We also want to work based off of research and data rather than gut feelings. To enable all of this, we need better architectural and design documentation.

TODO

• Make Jupyter notebooks for all of our prompting
• Document the application's program flow (including architectural notes) in Whimsical and/or Markdown
• Add references to this new documentation in all the right places
  • Contributor guide
  • README
  • Docs site
• Require PRs to include updates to developer docs if applicable
• Add documentation delineating all components that can be used (see https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/)
• Add documentation on building agents using forge (and other autogpt components)
• Add library documentation for Forge and AutoGPT components
• Document supported versions of various components

[The-Inscrutable-X]

How would one be able to help with this?

[ntindle]

@The-Inscrutable-X a good start would be turning our prompting into reference notebooks so we can iteratively develop

[nabby27]

Have you considered using a reward system to incentivize collaboration with external developers? I think people will be more willing to collaborate on this project if there is some kind of financial compensation. I also think that with projects as interesting as this, people want to contribute financially to improve quality and add new features.

I created a platform for this type of situation, opire.dev, and code owners will receive a % of the rewards when it is created by someone outside the organization.

AutoGPT is a solid product and I would love to be able to spend money on solving problems and feel like I'm contributing.