documentation_guidelines_template

A reusable project document that sets rules for writing and maintaining comments, docstrings, API notes, test documentation, and architecture documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define documentation tools, ownership, review checks, and where documentation belongs in a project.
Why use it?
It gives developers and coding agents one shared reference for documentation, reducing inconsistent explanations, outdated notes, and duplicated rules.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/atebites-hub/pjtemplate/documentation_guidelines_template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atebites-hub/PJTemplate
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,297 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.01297
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00648
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00130

Measured 2d ago against content hash edd804e57959, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documentation_guidelines_template scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/agents/documentation_guidelines_template.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documentation Guidelines Template

This document defines documentation practices for [Project Name], ensuring maintainability, onboarding speed, and reliable agent comprehension. Documentation is a living artifact and must evolve with code.

Guidelines for Filling Out This Template

  • Replace [Project Name] with your project's name.
  • Choose doc tools that integrate with your stack ([tool: JSDoc/Sphinx/rustdoc/Typedoc]).
  • Configure automated documentation checks where possible.
  • Define clear ownership for comments, docstrings, architecture docs, and test docs.
  • Keep this document as the source of truth for comments/docstrings/doc updates.
  • Reference repo structure: Store this in /docs/agents/documentation_guidelines.md.

Document Ownership and Overlap Rules

To avoid duplicate standards across core docs:

  • This document owns:
    • Inline comments and docstring standards
    • /docs/code/, /docs/tests/, /docs/api/ update requirements
    • Documentation quality gates and review workflow
  • coding_standards.md owns code behavior standards (naming, control flow, errors, security, concurrency).
  • testing_guidelines.md owns test architecture and test execution policy.
  • AGENTS.md owns project-level gates and process requirements.

If standards overlap, keep normative detail here and reference from other docs.

Documentation Structure

  • /docs/agents/: Context boundary documents (AI and human process docs)
    • Files: project_requirements_doc.md, app_flow_doc.md, tech_stack_doc.md, client_guidelines.md, server_structure_doc.md, implementation_plan.md, file_structure_doc.md, testing_guidelines.md, coding_standards.md, this file.
  • /docs/code/: Per-module technical documentation
    • Include architecture diagrams, module responsibilities, contracts, and examples.
  • /docs/tests/: Test documentation and quality notes
    • Include strategy, execution commands, fixtures, and known flake risks.
  • /docs/api/: API contracts and integration notes
    • OpenAPI/Swagger specs, endpoint docs, versioning/deprecation notes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 170 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A edd804e57959

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documentation_guidelines_template is an agent published in the GitHub repository atebites-hub/PJTemplate (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,297 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.