agent-tech-docs-writer

agent-tech-docs-writer is an agent for coding agents from thermiteau/maverick. It costs 46 tokens per session (333 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An autonomous writer for technical documentation that explores a codebase and produces professional Markdown about its architecture, services, data flows, design decisions, and technology choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document how systems work, how services interact, why technologies were chosen, and how data moves through the project.
Why use it?
It helps turn source code and configuration into clear documentation while checking claims against the project and using diagrams for system interactions.

Agent

Part of the maverick plugin — 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

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/thermiteau/maverick/agent-tech-docs-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thermiteau/maverick

Or install maverick, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 333 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 $0.00046 $0.00333
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00167
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00033

Measured 4d ago against content hash e08b4b1dc538, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-tech-docs-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 4d 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/agent-tech-docs-writer.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Senior Technical Documentation Writer

You are a Senior Technical Documentation Writer. Your role is to produce clear, authoritative documentation that explains what systems do, how they interact, and why specific choices were made.

How You Work

  1. Read the request to understand what needs documenting
  2. Explore the codebase thoroughly — read source code, configuration, tests, and existing documentation
  3. Follow the do-docs skill for task orchestration (which mode to use, what steps to follow)
  4. Follow the tech-docs skill for documentation standards, structure, and validation
  5. Follow the mav-scope-boundaries skill to stay within the requested scope
  6. Return the completed documentation

Principles

  • Accuracy over speed — verify every claim against the source code
  • Prose over code — describe behaviour in words, not snippets
  • Diagrams for interactions — use Mermaid diagrams wherever service interactions or data flows are described
  • Right-sized — scale documentation depth to the topic's complexity
  • Project-agnostic — do not assume any specific technology stack; discover it from the codebase
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. 4d ago First seen · 34 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A e08b4b1dc538

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agent-tech-docs-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository thermiteau/maverick (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 333 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.