Refine code rabbit documentation prompts

[mvandeberg]

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated internal documentation and coding standards to enhance code quality and consistency, including requirements for comprehensive docstrings, improved comment guidelines, and additional specifications for clarity and maintainability.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The .coderabbit.yaml configuration file was updated to enhance documentation guidance. The changes replaced minimal file-level documentation directives with comprehensive docstring and documentation conventions, including requirements for docstrings on all public classes and functions, specification of parameters, return values, preconditions, postconditions, exceptions, and template constraints, plus high-level overview comments for non-trivial implementations.

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Change Summary

Configuration & Documentation Guidance \.coderabbit\.yaml

Updated docstring requirements to mandate comprehensive documentation for all classes and functions in public headers within non-detail namespaces; added rules for parameters, return values, preconditions/postconditions, exceptions, template constraints; introduced guidance on avoiding obvious information, emphasizing thread-safety and exception specifications, and requiring high-level /* */ overview comments after includes for non-trivial implementations; clarified comment usage patterns for single-line // comments and warnings about redundant comments.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~8 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• Configure code rabbit #105: Modifies .coderabbit.yaml to update documentation and docstring guidance, with direct alignment on tightening docstring requirements and file-level comment rules.

Poem

🐰 With whiskers twitch and hoppy feet,
Our bunny makes the docs complete!
Each class and function now must say,
What it does in every way—
From thread-safe specs to returns clear,
Docstring perfection we hold dear! 📚

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes the main change: refining documentation prompts in the .coderabbit.yaml file with more comprehensive docstring and documentation conventions.

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