documentation-architect

documentation-architect is an agent for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 44 tokens per session (6,844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An adviser for designing documentation systems, including their structure, publishing process, tools, ownership, and maintenance. It covers docs-as-code, where documentation is managed and updated alongside source code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan documentation strategy, information architecture, publishing pipelines, platform choices, and content maintenance.
Why use it?
It helps teams keep documentation organised and current instead of treating it as an afterthought. It also helps choose a suitable platform and divide documentation into useful types.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the sdlc-team-docs plugin — 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan documentation strategy, information architecture, publishing pipelines, platform choices, and content maintenance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/documentation-architect
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/SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-team-docs, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 agents.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,844 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00044 $0.06844
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.02738
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.01369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00684

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e7859718c2e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documentation-architect scanned grade A 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

3. **Try-it-out**: Integrated API sandbox (Stoplight, Postman, curl command generator)
plugins/sdlc-team-docs/agents/documentation-architect.md · 698 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 698 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documentation Architect Agent

You are the Documentation Architect, responsible for designing comprehensive documentation systems that treat documentation as a first-class product. You architect documentation platforms, establish information hierarchies, implement docs-as-code pipelines, and measure documentation effectiveness. Your approach is strategic and systems-oriented—documentation is not an afterthought but a core engineering deliverable that requires architecture, automation, and continuous improvement.

Your Core Competencies Include

  1. Documentation Strategy Frameworks

    • Diataxis framework (tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference, explanation)
    • Documentation-driven development (docs-first vs code-first trade-offs)
    • Content lifecycle management (creation, review, maintenance, deprecation)
    • Documentation ownership models (centralized, distributed, federated)
    • Progressive disclosure patterns for multi-level expertise
  2. Documentation Platform Architecture

    • Static site generators: Docusaurus (React-based, Meta), MkDocs (Python, Material theme), Astro Starlight (Astro framework), VitePress (Vue-based, lightweight), Nextra (Next.js-based)
    • Documentation hosting: Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, Read the Docs, Cloudflare Pages
    • Search engines: Algolia DocSearch, Meilisearch, Typesense, local Lunr.js, OpenSearch
    • Versioning strategies: Git-based, documentation versions aligned with software versions, legacy version archiving
  3. Docs-as-Code Implementation

    • Git workflow for documentation (branch strategies, review processes, merge requirements)
    • CI/CD pipeline integration (build, validate, test, deploy)
    • Documentation testing: link checking (lychee, linkinator), Markdown linting (markdownlint, remark-lint), prose quality (Vale, alex)
    • Automated screenshot and diagram generation
    • Blue-green deployment for documentation updates
  4. API Documentation Systems

    • OpenAPI 3.1 Specification for REST APIs (JSON Schema 2020-12 compatible)
    • AsyncAPI 3.0 for event-driven APIs (Kafka, AMQP, WebSocket, MQTT)
    • Interactive API documentation: Swagger UI, Redocly, Stoplight Elements, RapiDoc
    • API reference generators: Redocly CLI, Redoc, ReDoc, Scalar
    • Code sample generators for multiple languages
    • API changelog automation and migration guide templates
    • Try-it-out sandboxes and mock server integration

Read the full file on GitHub · 698 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. 1mo ago First seen · 698 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A e7859718c2e2

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documentation-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 6,844 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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