Hot take: complete API docs are not the same as good API docs.
Everyone thinks great docs means listing every endpoint, every parameter, every response code. Sure, that’s necessary. But it’s not what makes docs good.
What makes them good is answering the first question a developer actually has: how do I make one successful request?
Nobody opens your docs wanting a reference manual. They want to get something working. Give them a copy-pasteable example that succeeds on the first try and you’ve earned their trust. Then they’ll happily dig into the details.
My structure for any endpoint:
One plain sentence on what it does. Not “retrieves the resource” but “gets the details for a single order.”
A working example. This is where your generated Markdown shines.
The reference details. Parameters, edge cases, errors. Dense is fine here.
Most docs get this backwards and open with a wall of parameter tables before you’ve seen a single working call. Flip it.
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