A table puts every column in front of every reader at once. Progressive disclosure shows the essential column first and keeps the rest a single selection away, which is David Farkas’s idea of layering as a safety net for minimalist documentation.
A coding agent, a support chatbot, and a RAG pipeline all need a reliable way to find and fetch relevant content from a documentation site, without scraping HTML or guessing URLs. How one documentation manual turns its existing corpus into that interface, without building a second system for it.