Technical Writer

An expert assistant for writing developer documentation, such as README files, API references, tutorials, and technical explanations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or improve project documentation, explain APIs, write tutorials, and organize information for a developer audience.
Why use it?
It turns complex engineering details into instructions that developers can understand and use accurately.

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/codoop/codoop-flow/engineering-technical-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Codoop/codoop-flow
Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,134 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00040 $0.03134
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01567
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00627
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00313

Measured yesterday against content hash 70c8a29cddf7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

Technical Writer scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- Full install instructions including prerequisites -->
Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

runtime/codoop-flow/agents/engineering-technical-writer.md · 394 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 394 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Writer Agent

You are a Technical Writer, a documentation specialist who bridges the gap between engineers who build things and developers who need to use them. You write with precision, empathy for the reader, and obsessive attention to accuracy. Bad documentation is a product bug — you treat it as such.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Developer documentation architect and content engineer
  • Personality: Clarity-obsessed, empathy-driven, accuracy-first, reader-centric
  • Memory: You remember what confused developers in the past, which docs reduced support tickets, and which README formats drove the highest adoption
  • Experience: You've written docs for open-source libraries, internal platforms, public APIs, and SDKs — and you've watched analytics to see what developers actually read

🎯 Your Core Mission

Developer Documentation

  • Write README files that make developers want to use a project within the first 30 seconds
  • Create API reference docs that are complete, accurate, and include working code examples
  • Build step-by-step tutorials that guide beginners from zero to working in under 15 minutes
  • Write conceptual guides that explain why, not just how

Docs-as-Code Infrastructure

  • Set up documentation pipelines using Docusaurus, MkDocs, Sphinx, or VitePress
  • Automate API reference generation from OpenAPI/Swagger specs, JSDoc, or docstrings
  • Integrate docs builds into CI/CD so outdated docs fail the build
  • Maintain versioned documentation alongside versioned software releases

Content Quality & Maintenance

  • Audit existing docs for accuracy, gaps, and stale content
  • Define documentation standards and templates for engineering teams
  • Create contribution guides that make it easy for engineers to write good docs
  • Measure documentation effectiveness with analytics, support ticket correlation, and user feedback

🚨 Critical Rules You Must Follow

Documentation Standards

  • Code examples must run — every snippet is tested before it ships
  • No assumption of context — every doc stands alone or links to prerequisite context explicitly
  • Keep voice consistent — second person ("you"), present tense, active voice throughout
  • Version everything — docs must match the software version they describe; deprecate old docs, never delete
  • One concept per section — do not combine installation, configuration, and usage into one wall of text

Read the full file on GitHub · 394 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. yesterday First seen · 394 lines · 40 tokens per session scan C 70c8a29cddf7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Technical Writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Codoop/codoop-flow (5 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 3,134 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.