ground-docs

A command that starts a documentation campaign for a codebase or directory. It surveys the system, plans the documentation structure, and coordinates writing and review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inventory a legacy system, plan its documentation tree, create documentation in phases, and track coverage and review findings.
Why use it?
It provides an organized process for documenting an existing codebase instead of starting with untracked, disconnected pages.

Command

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 commands/riekelt/technical-writer/ground-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/riekelt/technical-writer
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 365 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 $0.00011 $0.00365
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00182
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash d3559303df56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ground-docs 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 2d 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/technical-writer/commands/ground-docs.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Launch a documentation campaign for the system at the given path (default: the current repository) per the documenting-legacy-codebases skill, which governs everything this command does not state.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Sequence:

  1. Load the skill first: documenting-legacy-codebases, with technical-writing as its required background. The skill's body is the authority; this command is only the entry point.
  2. Survey before prose. Enumerate the system's surfaces per the skill's inventory list, with the command and date behind every count.
  3. Present the plan before writing: the derived docs tree, the coverage denominators, and the model tiers per campaign phase. Wait for the user's go on the plan.
  4. Run the campaign per the skill's fan-out: doc-grounder agents ground per subsystem, each pipelined into a prose-reviewer for the fresh-eyes pass. Pass each agent an explicit model per the skill's tier labels (small to mid-sized for grounding, mid-sized for review); the agents' own defaults do not enforce the ceiling. You are the campaign's only writer: write each returned document to its planned path in the docs tree, and keep the coverage ledger, findings note, and unknowns file current as results land.
  5. Assemble last per the skill, and close by reporting the ledger: what is drafted, what is reviewed, what is unknown, and what landed in the findings note for the owner.

On interruption at any point, the ledger is the hand-off: leave it stating exactly what is done and what is outstanding.

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. 2d ago First seen · 19 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A d3559303df56

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ground-docs is a command published in the GitHub repository riekelt/technical-writer (15 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 365 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.