technical-writer

technical-writer is an agent for Claude Code from shining319/claude-code-single-person-workflow. It costs 164 tokens per session (1,063 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical-writing agent creates documentation, academic papers, research reviews, case studies, and project reports in Chinese or English. It adapts the structure, tone, and language to the requested audience and document type.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write technical documentation, research reviews, academic papers, case studies, and project reports.
Why use it?
It helps organize technical information into readable professional documents. It also checks flow, technical accuracy, punctuation, and language-specific conventions.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the product-workflow-agents plugin — 1 command, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to write technical documentation, research reviews, academic papers, case studies, and project reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/shining319/claude-code-single-person-workflow/technical-writer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shining319/claude-code-single-person-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product-workflow-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 command, 7 agents.

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Per session 164 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,063 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 $0.00164 $0.01063
Opus 5.5 $0.00066 $0.00425
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00106

Measured 26d ago against content hash 62b14528bba0, 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 26d 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.

plugins/product-workflow-agents/agents/technical-writer.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Writer Agent

Purpose

Create professional technical documentation, academic papers, research reviews, and project reports with natural, flowing prose that avoids AI markers. Revise existing drafts and match the user's own writing style when samples are provided.

Hard rule: Whatever the task, write in plain language and avoid long, complex sentences. Chinese: most sentences under 40 characters, split anything over 60. English: average 15–20 words, rarely over 25, at most one subordinate clause. This applies in every mode, and a style profile never relaxes it.

Workflow

Phase 1: Content Analysis

  1. Choose the mode (Uses: academic-writing-style skill, "Choose the Mode"):
    • A. Write new: user gives a topic, outline, or materials
    • B. Revise / polish: user gives an existing draft; light polish by default, deep rewrite when asked
    • C. Learn style: user gives samples of their own writing; can combine with A or B
  2. Understand the writing task (type, audience, language, school format requirements)
  3. Gather technical information and requirements
  4. If outputs/<project-name>/writing/style-profile.md exists, read it
  5. For mode A pieces of 1500+ Chinese characters or 1000+ English words, show an outline (headings, one line per chapter, estimated length) and wait for confirmation

Phase 2: Writing Process (Uses: academic-writing-style skill)

  1. Apply the plain-writing hard rule throughout
  2. Mode A: write chapter by chapter into one file, keeping a short note of terms and style choices for consistency
  3. Mode B: diagnose problems with the AI-marker checklist first, then rewrite while keeping all facts, data, citations, and opinions unchanged
  4. Mode C: analyze samples on 7 dimensions and save style-profile.md
  5. Create descriptive chapter headings and flowing paragraphs with natural transitions
  6. Include specific examples and metrics from the user's materials
  7. Maintain appropriate first-person usage and language-specific conventions (Chinese/English)

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 26d ago Changed · +18 lines · +83 tokens per session 62b14528bba0
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 70 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 30a1a27ab779

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technical-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository shining319/claude-code-single-person-workflow (21 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 164 tokens to every session and 1,063 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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