How are you managing Markdown context files for AI agents?

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Summary

A professional inquiry about managing frequently updated Markdown context files for AI agents, discussing challenges with collaboration and version control tools like GitHub, Google Docs, and Guru.

We’re building more and more agents at work, which means we’re accumulating more Markdown files that serve as agent context. These include both short and long-term strategy, market dynamics, etc., and they’ll be updated pretty regularly by multiple people. We’re looking for something that gives us easy collaboration + version control while keeping the files in Markdown. We’ve considered: Confluence: Nobody wants to use it. Google Docs: Editing is easy, but you end up with a Google Doc + exported Markdown file, which feels messy. And you cannot edit markdown files, so you have to open as a google doc, then re-export any changes as a markdown file. GitHub: Probably ideal technically, but only a couple people on our revenue team have GitHub access, so it’s not practical. Guru: We already have it (even though we were going to get rid of it 6 months ago, lol), and we’ve set up an MCP server for it. We’re currently leaning this direction. Has anyone else run into this problem? What are you using to manage frequently changing Markdown files that serve as context for AI agents?
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