diff --git a/sh/doc.awk b/sh/doc.awk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f36b7b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sh/doc.awk
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+function append(line) {
+    if (doc) {
+        doc = doc "\n"
+    }
+    doc = doc line
+}
+
+function output(name) {
+    print name
+    print doc
+    exit
+}
+
+function reset() {
+    doc = ""
+}
+
+BEGIN {
+    RE_ANY = "(.*)"
+    RE_NAME = "([_A-Za-z][_0-9A-Za-z]*)"
+    RE_SPACE = "[[:space:]]"
+    RE_SPACES = RE_SPACE "*"
+
+    RE_BEGIN = "^"
+    RE_END = RE_SPACES "$"
+    RE_FUNC = RE_SPACES "\\(" RE_SPACES "\\)" RE_SPACES "{"
+
+    RE_ALIAS = RE_BEGIN "#\\(" RE_SPACES RE_NAME RE_END
+    RE_DOC = RE_BEGIN "#" RE_SPACE RE_ANY RE_END
+    RE_FUNCTION = RE_BEGIN RE_NAME RE_FUNC RE_END
+    RE_MODULE = RE_BEGIN "#." RE_SPACES RE_NAME RE_END
+    RE_SET = RE_BEGIN RE_NAME "=.*" RE_END
+    RE_SHEBANG = RE_BEGIN "#!" RE_SPACES RE_ANY RE_END
+
+    alias = 0
+    reset()
+    module = 0
+}
+
+{
+    # doc
+    if (match($0, RE_SHEBANG, m)) {
+        append("shebang: " m[1])
+    } else if (match($0, RE_DOC, m)) {
+        append(m[1])
+    } else if (match($0, RE_ALIAS, m)) {
+        append("alias: " m[1])
+        if (m[1] == target) {
+            alias = 1
+        }
+    # not doc
+    } else if (match($0, RE_MODULE, m)) {
+        reset()
+        if (m[1] == target) {
+            module = 1
+        }
+    } else if (match($0, RE_SET, m)) {
+        if (m[1] == target) {
+            printf "set: "
+            output(m[1])
+        } else {
+            reset()
+        }
+    } else if (match($0, RE_FUNCTION, m)) {
+        if (alias) {
+            print "alias: " target
+            printf "function: "
+            output(m[1])
+        } else if (m[1] == target) {
+            printf "function: "
+            output(target)
+        } else {
+            reset()
+        }
+    } else {
+        if (module) {
+            printf "module: "
+            output(target)
+        } else {
+            reset()
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sh/main.sh b/sh/main.sh
index 343cbe3..fb323d8 100755
--- a/sh/main.sh
+++ b/sh/main.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env sh
-# main module
-
 # ╭──────╮
 # │ main │
 # ╰──────╯
+# main module
 
 # ╭──────┬───────────╮
 # │ main │ constants │
@@ -11,8 +10,10 @@
 
 # name of the entrypoint file
 RWX_MAIN_NAME="main.sh"
+# name of the project itself
 RWX_SELF_NAME="rwx"
 
+# prefix for command functions
 RWX_SELF_COMMAND="_${RWX_SELF_NAME}_cmd_"
 
 # ╭──────┬───────────╮
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ rwx_main() {
 # ╰──────┴───────╯
 
 # cache source code of a module
+# inside a global code variable
 rwx_cache() {
 	local root="${1}"
 	local module="${2}"
@@ -193,6 +195,31 @@ rwx_parse_functions() {
 		sed --silent "s|${RWX_REGEX_TARGET_FUNCTION}|\\1|p"
 }
 
+# ╭──────┬──────╮
+# │ main │ test │
+# ╰──────┴──────╯
+
+rwx_test() {
+    local item
+    # TODO CODE
+    # TODO CONSTANTS
+    # TODO functions
+    # TODO variables
+    set \
+        "main" \
+        "self" \
+        \
+        "RWX_MAIN_NAME" \
+        \
+        "rwx_cache" \
+        \
+        "gsc"
+    for item in "${@}"; do
+        echo
+        rwx_doc "${item}"
+    done
+}
+
 # ╭──────┬─────╮
 # │ main │ run │
 # ╰──────┴─────╯
diff --git a/sh/self.sh b/sh/self.sh
index c181112..169921a 100644
--- a/sh/self.sh
+++ b/sh/self.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,17 @@
-# self module
+# self
+# module
 
 # meta doc
 rwx_doc() {
+	local name="${1}"
+	[ -n "${name}" ] || return
+	printf "%s" "${RWX_CODE}" |
+		awk \
+			-f "${RWX_ROOT_SYSTEM}/doc.awk" \
+			-v target="${name}"
+}
+
+rwx_doc_old() {
 	local name="${1}"
 	[ -n "${name}" ] || return
 	local constant doc func line module