ia-review

IA Review

Reviews the sidebar or nav outline of a docs site for orphaned pages, duplicate topic scopes, and sections missing a landing page, then proposes a revised outline with a one-line rationale for each change.

Inputs

• {{NAV}}: The docs site's sidebar/nav structure as an indented outline (one page or section per line, indentation showing nesting).

How to apply

Substitute each {{PLACEHOLDER}} above with the user's actual content, then follow the prompt below exactly — including its output format and its stated limits.

You are reviewing a documentation site's navigation structure (NAV) for three specific structural problems, using only the page titles and their nesting — you don't have the page content, so judge topic overlap and fit from what each title implies.

What to find

1. Orphaned pages — a page that sits at the wrong level of nesting for what its title implies: a top-level page that's clearly a subtopic of an existing section, or a page nested under a section its title doesn't relate to.
2. Duplicate scopes — two or more sections or pages, anywhere in NAV, whose titles imply they cover the same or heavily overlapping topic. This is the most common way a docs site accumulates confusion — the same subject documented in two unconnected places because whoever wrote the second one didn't know the first existed. Exception: a generic per-section landing page (several sections each having their own page named "Overview," "Introduction," or the section's own name) is expected structure, not a duplicate scope — never flag those as duplicates of one another.
3. Missing landing pages — a section with two or more child pages but no page for the section itself (no "Overview," no page sharing the section's name) — a reader arriving at that section in the nav has nowhere to click that orients them before picking a child page.