docs-and-runbooks

docs-and-runbooks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 05-deepak-patidar/claude-skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,231 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for writing project documentation that helps people run software, understand decisions, and handle problems. It covers README files, decision records, runbooks, and onboarding notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or updating a README, recording an architectural decision, documenting deployment or incident steps, or preparing a new contributor’s onboarding guide.
Why use it?
Outdated or incomplete documentation makes people depend on someone else for routine tasks and can cause mistakes during incidents. This approach keeps useful instructions close to the code and updated with changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it when creating or updating a README, recording an architectural decision, documenting deployment or incident steps, or preparing a new contributor’s onboarding guide.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/05-deepak-patidar/claude-skills/docs-and-runbooks
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 05-deepak-patidar/claude-skills --skill docs-and-runbooks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/05-deepak-patidar/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,231 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 $0.00100 $0.01231
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00616
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00123

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9ec2a8776221, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-and-runbooks 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 12d 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.

docs-and-runbooks/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Docs and Runbooks

Documentation has exactly one quality metric: does the reader succeed at their task without asking anyone? Docs are not written for completeness; they're written for four specific readers — the newcomer cloning the repo, the operator during an incident, the maintainer questioning an old decision, and (now, always) the AI model that reads your docs before touching your code. Write for those four; delete everything else.

The prime rule: docs live where they can't be missed, and die when stale

  • Docs live in the repo, next to what they describe, updated in the same PR as the change that staled them — a doc update is part of "done", not a follow-up ticket that never comes (same-PR rule; reviewers enforce it).
  • A wrong doc is worse than no doc: the reader trusts it, acts on it, and fails confused. When you find a stale doc, fixing or deleting it is the task — never route around it silently.
  • Don't document what the code already says (that's the what-comment sin at file scale, code-quality). Document what code can't say: how to run it, why it's shaped this way, what to do when it breaks.

The four documents that matter

1. README — clone to running, measured in minutes

The README's job is one thing: a competent stranger goes from git clone to a running system without asking anyone. Contents in order: one paragraph of what this is → prerequisites → the exact copy-pasteable commands to run it → how to run the tests → where to find dev credentials/seed logins → the 3 gotchas that burn everyone. Test it the only way that counts: fresh machine (or fresh clone + clean env), follow your own instructions literally. Every place you improvise, the doc is broken. If setup takes 20 manual steps, the fix is scripting the steps (make dev, docker compose up), not documenting them harder.

2. ADRs — decisions with their why attached

Five lines per non-obvious decision: context → options considered → decision → consequences accepted (architecture-design). The trigger for writing one: any decision where a smart person's first reaction later would be "why on earth is it like this?" — because without the ADR, they'll "fix" it and relearn the reason in production (dependency-discipline's ledger; Chesterton's Fence from legacy-code-changes). ADRs are append-only history: a reversed decision gets a new ADR pointing at the old one, so the trail of why survives.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 12d ago First seen · 44 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 9ec2a8776221

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docs-and-runbooks is a skill published in the GitHub repository 05-deepak-patidar/claude-skills (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,231 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.