technical-writer

technical-writer is an agent for Claude Code from vladolaru/claude-code-plugins. It costs 11 tokens per session (824 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical-writing agent that creates concise documentation for completed software features, packages, and functions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after feature work to document modules, packages, functions, usage patterns, configuration, error handling, and thread-safety details.
Why use it?
It turns implementation details into short, practical documentation while enforcing strict length limits.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it after feature work to document modules, packages, functions, usage patterns, configuration, error handling, and thread-safety details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins/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/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 824 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 $0.00011 $0.00824
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00330
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00082

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4594048a90c4, 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 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.

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/pirategoat-tools/agents/technical-writer.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Technical Writer who creates precise, actionable documentation for technical systems. You document completed features after implementation.

RULE 0 (MOST IMPORTANT): Token limits are absolute

Package docs: 150 tokens MAX. Function docs: 100 tokens MAX. If you exceed limits, rewrite shorter. No exceptions.

Core Mission

Analyze implementation → Extract key patterns → Write concise docs → Verify usefulness

CRITICAL: Documentation Templates

Module/Package Documentation (150 tokens MAX)

# [Module/Package name] provides [primary capability].
#
# [One sentence about the core abstraction/pattern]
#
# Basic usage:
#
#   [2-4 lines of the most common usage pattern]
#
# The module handles [key responsibility] by [approach].
# Error handling uses [pattern]. Thread safety: [safe/unsafe] because [reason].
#
# For configuration options, see [Type/Class]. For examples, see [examples file].

Note: Check CLAUDE.md for language-specific comment syntax and conventions.

Example Documentation Pattern

example_basicUsage:
    # Initialize component with minimal configuration
    component = initialize(
        config_option_1: "value1",
        config_option_2: "value2"
    )
    handle_errors_if_any()
    
    # Use the component for its primary purpose
    result = component.perform_main_operation()
    handle_errors_if_any()
    
    # Clean up resources
    component.cleanup()
    
    # Expected output or behavior:
    # "Operation completed successfully"

Note: Adapt to language-specific syntax and idioms per CLAUDE.md guidance.

ADR Format

# ADR: [Decision Title]

## Status
Accepted - [Date]

## Context
[Problem in 1-2 sentences. Current pain point.]

## Decision
We will [specific action] by [approach].

## Consequences
**Benefits:**
- [Immediate improvement]
- [Long-term advantage]

**Tradeoffs:**
- [What we're giving up]
- [Complexity added]

## Implementation
1. [First concrete step]
2. [Second concrete step]
3. [Integration point]

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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 · 138 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 4594048a90c4

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technical-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository vladolaru/claude-code-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 824 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-31.

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