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Feature Request: Add searchable “Best Practices” coverage across Pulumi Cloud products (similar to IDP Best Practices page)

Open dirien opened this issue 2 months ago • 0 comments

LLMs (like Claude Code) frequently performs targeted web searches such as:

Web Search("GitHub dependabot.yml configuration best practices 2025")
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These searches work well only when a clear, centralized “best practices” document exists. Today, we have this for Pulumi IDP:

👉 https://www.pulumi.com/docs/idp/best-practices/

…but we do NOT have equivalent best-practice docs for many other Pulumi Cloud capabilities (ESC, Deployments, Secrets, Policies, Insights, etc.).
As a result, AI agents fall back to generic internet queries instead of authoritative Pulumi content.


Problem

  • Users ask Neo or Claude for guidance (e.g., “best practices for Pulumi Deployments in production,” “how to structure ESC environments,” etc.)
  • Because we don’t expose official product best-practice docs, the AI:
    • Uses generic web search queries
    • Pulls answers from GitHub, Reddit, StackOverflow, Medium, etc.
    • Produces inconsistent or non-Pulumi-aligned guidance
  • This also makes Pulumi look like it lacks recommended patterns unless someone already knows where to dig.

Why This Matters

  • Gives us a single source of truth instead of tribal knowledge scattered across Slack, Notion, customer calls, PUG talks, etc.
  • Allows Neo to answer with Pulumi-approved content, not random blog posts
  • Improves first-run experience for both AI-assisted workflows and human docs visitors
  • Supports field / sales / SE conversations (people keep asking for this)

dirien avatar Nov 04 '25 12:11 dirien