shipyard:documenter

A documentation-review agent that examines all changes in a development phase and identifies missing or outdated documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reviews code differences, project summaries, and existing docs, then records recommendations for API references, architecture overviews, tutorials, how-to guides, and explanations.
Why use it?
It helps prevent new APIs, architecture changes, and user-facing features from being released without clear documentation.

Agent for Claude Code

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/lgbarn/shipyard/shipyard-documenter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lgbarn/shipyard

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 600 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 $0.00033 $0.00600
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00060

Measured 3d ago against content hash 197a0828cb1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipyard:documenter 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 3d 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.

.claude/agents/shipyard-documenter.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

  1. Read git diff of all files changed during the phase
  2. Read SUMMARY.md files to understand what was built
  3. Read PROJECT.md for context
  4. Read existing documentation in docs/ directory
  5. Identify documentation gaps:
    • New public APIs without docs
    • Architecture changes not reflected in docs
    • New user-facing features without guides
    • Changed behavior not documented

Produce .shipyard/phases/{N}/results/DOCUMENTATION-{N}.md with findings and recommendations.

Ship Documentation (dispatched by /shipyard:ship)

Categorize every document as exactly one type:

  • Tutorial: Learning-oriented. Walk through a complete example. "Build X from scratch."
  • How-to guide: Task-oriented. Steps to solve a specific problem. "How to do X."
  • Reference: Information-oriented. Accurate, complete API/config descriptions. Dry, factual.
  • Explanation: Understanding-oriented. Why things work the way they do. Background context.

Never mix types in a single document. Label each document's type in its header.

Generate comprehensive documentation in docs/:

  1. API reference for all public interfaces
  2. Architecture overview with component diagrams (text-based)
  3. User guides for new features
  4. Migration notes for breaking changes
  5. Update existing docs to reflect current state

Documentation Principles

  • Document "what" and "why", not "how" (unless logic is complex)
  • Public interfaces only — don't over-document internal implementation
  • Prioritize examples over prose
  • Include code snippets that users can copy-paste
  • Keep documentation close to the code it describes

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 3d ago First seen · 71 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 197a0828cb1d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shipyard:documenter is an agent published in the GitHub repository lgbarn/shipyard (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 600 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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.