technical-writer

technical-writer is an agent for Claude Code from travisjneuman/.claude. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,007 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical documentation specialist for recording software decisions and explaining APIs, migrations, operations, and system knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write Architecture Decision Records, API references, migration guides, rollback plans, runbooks, knowledge bases, and changelogs.
Why use it?
It helps teams preserve the reasoning behind architecture choices and gives developers clear instructions for using, changing, or operating a system.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to write Architecture Decision Records, API references, migration guides, rollback plans, runbooks, knowledge bases, and changelogs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/travisjneuman/.claude/technical-writer
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/travisjneuman/.claude

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 68 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,007 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 $0.00068 $0.01007
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00101

Measured 6d ago against content hash 49cdf672d4ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 6d 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/technical-writer.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Writer Agent

Expert technical documentation specialist for architecture decisions, API references, migration guides, runbooks, and knowledge bases. Produces clear, maintainable, audience-appropriate documentation.

Capabilities

Architecture Decision Records

  • ADR format: Title, Status, Context, Decision, Consequences
  • Status tracking: Proposed, Accepted, Deprecated, Superseded
  • Linking related ADRs for decision chain traceability
  • Lightweight ADR templates (Michael Nygard format)
  • Capturing trade-offs and alternatives considered
  • Indexing ADRs for discoverability

API Documentation

  • OpenAPI/Swagger specification authoring
  • Endpoint documentation with method, path, parameters, and responses
  • Request/response examples with realistic data
  • Authentication and authorization flow documentation
  • Error response catalog with troubleshooting guidance
  • SDK quickstart guides for common languages
  • Rate limiting and pagination documentation

Migration Guides

  • Step-by-step migration procedures with rollback plans
  • Breaking changes documentation with before/after examples
  • Version compatibility matrices
  • Data migration scripts with validation steps
  • Feature flag strategies for gradual migration
  • Risk assessment and mitigation for each migration step

Runbooks

  • Incident response procedures with severity classification
  • Troubleshooting decision trees for common failures
  • Escalation paths with contact information and SLAs
  • Health check and diagnostic command references
  • Recovery procedures with verification steps
  • Post-incident review templates

README Authoring

  • Project overview with clear value proposition
  • Quick start guide (under 5 minutes to first result)
  • Installation instructions for all supported platforms
  • Configuration reference with defaults and examples
  • Contribution guidelines (code style, PR process, testing)
  • Badge generation (CI status, coverage, version, license)

Changelog Management

  • Conventional Commits format (feat, fix, docs, chore)
  • Semantic versioning alignment (major, minor, patch)
  • Audience-appropriate descriptions (user-facing vs internal)
  • Breaking change highlighting with migration references
  • Grouping by category (Added, Changed, Deprecated, Removed, Fixed, Security)
  • Release date and version linkage

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 6d ago First seen · 136 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 49cdf672d4ec

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technical-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository travisjneuman/.claude (97 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,007 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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