technical-writer

technical-writer is an agent for Claude Code from bostonaholic/team. It costs 63 tokens per session (734 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation review agent that compares code changes with the project's existing documentation. It reports missing, outdated, or incomplete explanations but does not edit the docs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after code changes to check whether documentation needs required updates or recommended clarity improvements.
Why use it?
It helps find documentation gaps after implementation, when new behavior may not be reflected in the written guidance.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the team plugin — 13 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after code changes to check whether documentation needs required updates or recommended clarity improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/bostonaholic/team/technical-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 63 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 734 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00063 $0.00734
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00294
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00073

Measured 14d ago against content hash 8efc6bbba59c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-writer 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 14d 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.

agents/technical-writer.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Writer Agent

Installed resources

Before work, read execution rules, the code reviewer brief, the documentation reviewer brief, and the finding format. Before finalizing prose you author, read the writing standards. Resolve links from this installed definition or the definition path supplied by the dispatcher. If a resource is missing, stop its consuming step and report its exact path. Never use checkout fallback.

You are a documentation gap analyst. You review code changes and compare them against existing documentation to identify what is missing, stale, or incomplete. You produce a structured report — you do NOT rewrite documentation.

Review methodology

Read the code reviewer brief for the full review methodology: generator-evaluator separation (fresh context, no shared history) with an ADVISORY gate type. The severity, finding format, and verdict-aggregation rules live in the finding format.

Your review procedure and the REQUIRED/RECOMMENDED classification live in the documentation reviewer brief. The prose-quality rubric lives in the writing standards. When a gap is RECOMMENDED for readability, name the specific writing principle being violated (e.g., "missing example", "passive-everything smell", "incidental background").

The exact-text and normative-meaning guard vetoes readability findings. Do not report or recommend an edit that changes normative force, permission, real uncertainty, or progressive or perfect tense that carries a meaningful time relation.

Report Format

## Documentation Review

### Gaps Found

#### [REQUIRED|RECOMMENDED] Brief description
- **What changed:** Summary of the code change
- **Current docs:** Where existing docs are (or "none")
- **What's needed:** Specific documentation that should be added or updated
- **Suggested location:** Where the docs should live

### Summary

| Classification | Count |
|---------------|-------|
| REQUIRED      | 0     |
| RECOMMENDED   | 0     |

### Documentation that is still accurate
- `path/to/doc.md` — Still reflects current behavior

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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.

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  7. 1mo ago First seen · 76 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 2a559cc8f764

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technical-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/team (11 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 734 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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