diff --git a/docs/default.nix b/docs/default.nix
index bbb94d88..43cd9023 100644
--- a/docs/default.nix
+++ b/docs/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   helpers,
   system,
+  nixvim,
   nixpkgs,
   nuschtosSearch,
 }:
@@ -108,6 +109,10 @@ lib.fix (
     gfm-alerts-to-admonitions = pkgs.python3.pkgs.callPackage ./gfm-alerts-to-admonitions { };
 
     man-docs = pkgs.callPackage ./man { inherit options-json; };
+
+    lib-docs = pkgs.callPackage ./lib {
+      inherit nixvim lib;
+    };
   }
   // lib.optionalAttrs (!pkgs.stdenv.isDarwin) {
     # NuschtOS/search does not seem to work on darwin
diff --git a/docs/lib/default.nix b/docs/lib/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..eeaa43e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/lib/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+# Generates the documentation for library functions using nixdoc.
+# See https://github.com/nix-community/nixdoc
+{
+  lib,
+  runCommand,
+  writers,
+  nixdoc,
+  nixvim,
+  pageSpecs ? import ./pages.nix,
+}:
+
+let
+  # Some pages are just menu entries, others have an actual markdown page that
+  # needs rendering.
+  shouldRenderPage = page: page ? file || page ? markdown;
+
+  # Normalise a page node, recursively normalise its children
+  elaboratePage =
+    loc:
+    {
+      title ? "",
+      markdown ? null,
+      file ? null,
+      pages ? { },
+    }@page:
+    {
+      name = lib.attrsets.showAttrPath loc;
+      loc = lib.throwIfNot (
+        builtins.head loc == "lib"
+      ) "All pages must be within `lib`, unexpected root `${builtins.head loc}`" (builtins.tail loc);
+    }
+    // lib.optionalAttrs (shouldRenderPage page) {
+      inherit
+        file
+        title
+        ;
+      markdown =
+        if builtins.isString markdown then
+          builtins.toFile "${lib.strings.replaceStrings [ "/" "-" ] (lib.lists.last loc)}.md" markdown
+        else
+          markdown;
+      outFile = lib.strings.concatStringsSep "/" (loc ++ [ "index.md" ]);
+    }
+    // lib.optionalAttrs (page ? pages) {
+      pages = elaboratePages loc pages;
+    };
+
+  # Recursively normalise page nodes
+  elaboratePages = prefix: builtins.mapAttrs (name: elaboratePage (prefix ++ [ name ]));
+
+  # Collect all page nodes into a list of page entries
+  collectPages =
+    pages:
+    builtins.concatMap (
+      page:
+      [ (builtins.removeAttrs page [ "pages" ]) ]
+      ++ lib.optionals (page ? pages) (collectPages page.pages)
+    ) (builtins.attrValues pages);
+
+  # Normalised page specs
+  elaboratedPageSpecs = elaboratePages [ ] pageSpecs;
+  pageList = collectPages elaboratedPageSpecs;
+  pagesToRender = builtins.filter (page: page ? outFile) pageList;
+  pagesWithFunctions = builtins.filter (page: page.file or null != null) pageList;
+in
+
+runCommand "nixvim-lib-docs"
+  {
+    nativeBuildInputs = [
+      nixdoc
+    ];
+
+    locations = writers.writeJSON "locations.json" (
+      import ./function-locations.nix {
+        inherit lib;
+        rootPath = nixvim;
+        functionSet = lib.extend nixvim.lib.overlay;
+        pathsToScan = builtins.catAttrs "loc" pagesWithFunctions;
+        revision = nixvim.rev or "main";
+      }
+    );
+
+    passthru.menu = import ./menu.nix {
+      inherit lib;
+      pageSpecs = elaboratedPageSpecs;
+    };
+  }
+  ''
+    function docgen {
+      md_file="$1"
+      in_file="$2"
+      name="$3"
+      out_file="$out/$4"
+      title="$5"
+
+      if [[ -z "$in_file" ]]; then
+        if [[ -z "$md_file" ]]; then
+          >&2 echo "No markdown or nix file for $name"
+          exit 1
+        fi
+      elif [[ -f "$in_file/default.nix" ]]; then
+        in_file+="/default.nix"
+      elif [[ ! -f "$in_file" ]]; then
+        >&2 echo "File not found: $in_file"
+        exit 1
+      fi
+
+      if [[ -n "$in_file" ]]; then
+        nixdoc \
+          --file "$in_file" \
+          --locs "$locations" \
+          --category "$name" \
+          --description "REMOVED BY TAIL" \
+          --prefix "" \
+          --anchor-prefix "" \
+        | tail --lines +2 \
+        > functions.md
+      fi
+
+      default_heading="# $name"
+      if [[ -n "$title" ]]; then
+        default_heading+=": $title"
+      fi
+
+      print_heading=true
+      if [[ -f "$md_file" ]] && [[ "$(head --lines 1 "$md_file")" == '# '* ]]; then
+        >&2 echo "NOTE: markdown file for $name starts with a <h1> heading. Skipping default heading \"$default_heading\"."
+        >&2 echo "      Found \"$(head --lines 1 "$md_file")\" in: $md_file"
+        print_heading=false
+      fi
+
+      mkdir -p $(dirname "$out_file")
+      (
+        if [[ "$print_heading" = true ]]; then
+          echo "$default_heading"
+          echo
+        fi
+        if [[ -f "$md_file" ]]; then
+          cat "$md_file"
+          echo
+        fi
+        if [[ -f functions.md ]]; then
+          cat functions.md
+        fi
+      ) > "$out_file"
+    }
+
+    mkdir -p "$out"
+
+    ${lib.concatMapStringsSep "\n" (
+      {
+        name,
+        file,
+        markdown,
+        outFile,
+        title ? "",
+        ...
+      }:
+      lib.escapeShellArgs [
+        "docgen"
+        "${lib.optionalString (markdown != null) markdown}" # md_file
+        "${lib.optionalString (file != null) file}" # in_file
+        name # name
+        outFile # out_file
+        title # title
+      ]
+    ) pagesToRender}
+  ''
diff --git a/docs/lib/function-locations.nix b/docs/lib/function-locations.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e232d514
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/lib/function-locations.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+# Generates an attrset of "function name" → "markdown location",
+# for use with nixdoc's `--locs` option.
+#
+# {
+#   "lib.nixvim.foo.bar" = "[lib/foo.nix:123](https://github.com/nix-community/nixvim/blob/«rev»/lib/foo.nix#L123) in `<nixvim>`";
+# }
+{
+  rootPath,
+  lib,
+  functionSet,
+  pathsToScan,
+  revision,
+  functionSetName ? "lib",
+  url ? "https://github.com/nix-community/nixvim/blob",
+}:
+let
+  rootPathString = toString rootPath;
+  urlPrefix = "${url}/${revision}";
+
+  sanitizeId = builtins.replaceStrings [ "'" ] [ "-prime" ];
+
+  # Like `isAttrs`, but returns `false` if `v` throws
+  tryIsAttrs = v: (builtins.tryEval (builtins.isAttrs v)).value;
+
+  # Collect position entries from an attrset
+  # `prefix` is used in the human-readable name,
+  # and for determining whether to recurse into attrs
+  collectPositionEntriesInSet =
+    prefix: set:
+    builtins.concatMap (
+      name:
+      [
+        {
+          name = lib.showAttrPath (
+            builtins.concatMap lib.toList [
+              functionSetName
+              prefix
+              name
+            ]
+          );
+          location = builtins.unsafeGetAttrPos name set;
+        }
+      ]
+      ++ lib.optionals (prefix == [ ] && tryIsAttrs set.${name}) (
+        collectPositionEntriesInSet (prefix ++ [ name ]) set.${name}
+      )
+    ) (builtins.attrNames set);
+
+  # Collect position entries from each `pathsToScan` in `set`
+  collectPositionEntriesFromPaths =
+    set:
+    builtins.concatMap (loc: collectPositionEntriesInSet loc (lib.getAttrFromPath loc set)) pathsToScan;
+
+  # Remove the tree root (usually the top-level store path)
+  removeNixvimPrefix = lib.flip lib.pipe [
+    (lib.strings.removePrefix rootPathString)
+    (lib.strings.removePrefix "/")
+  ];
+
+  # Create a name-value-pair for use with `listToAttrs`
+  entryToNameValuePair =
+    { name, location }:
+    {
+      name = sanitizeId name;
+      value =
+        let
+          file = removeNixvimPrefix location.file;
+          line = builtins.toString location.line;
+          text = "${file}:${line}";
+          target = "${urlPrefix}/${file}#L${line}";
+        in
+        "[${text}](${target}) in `<nixvim>`";
+    };
+in
+lib.pipe functionSet [
+  # Get the entries
+  collectPositionEntriesFromPaths
+  # Only include entries that have a location
+  (builtins.filter (entry: entry.location != null))
+  # No need to include out-of-tree entries
+  (builtins.filter (entry: lib.strings.hasPrefix rootPathString entry.location.file))
+  # Convert entries to attrset
+  (builtins.map entryToNameValuePair)
+  builtins.listToAttrs
+]
diff --git a/docs/lib/menu.nix b/docs/lib/menu.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..87feb9c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/lib/menu.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  pageSpecs,
+  indentSize ? "  ",
+}:
+let
+  pageToLines =
+    indent: parentName:
+    {
+      name,
+      outFile ? "",
+      pages ? { },
+      ...
+    }:
+    let
+      menuName = lib.strings.removePrefix (parentName + ".") name;
+      children = builtins.attrValues pages;
+      # Only add node to the menu if it has content or multiple children
+      useNodeInMenu = outFile != "" || builtins.length children > 1;
+      parentOfChildren = if useNodeInMenu then name else parentName;
+    in
+    lib.optional useNodeInMenu "${indent}- [${menuName}](${outFile})"
+    ++ lib.optionals (children != [ ]) (
+      builtins.concatMap (pageToLines (indent + indentSize) parentOfChildren) children
+    );
+in
+lib.pipe pageSpecs [
+  builtins.attrValues
+  (builtins.concatMap (pageToLines "" ""))
+  lib.concatLines
+]
diff --git a/docs/lib/pages.nix b/docs/lib/pages.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dba6ff08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/lib/pages.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# This file contains a list of function reference docs pages that should be generated by `nixdoc`
+#
+# Note: `nixdoc` uses `rnix` to parse the input file, so the file must return a fairly simple attrset.
+# If there is an issue parsing the file, the resulting markdown will not contain any function docs.
+
+{
+  # TODO
+}
diff --git a/flake/packages.nix b/flake/packages.nix
index a9ba410a..03451350 100644
--- a/flake/packages.nix
+++ b/flake/packages.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {
+  self,
   inputs,
   helpers,
   ...
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@
     }:
     {
       packages = import ../docs {
+        nixvim = self;
         inherit helpers;
         inherit system;
         inherit (inputs) nixpkgs;