documentation-writer

documentation-writer is a skill for Claude Code from afaraha8403/balakit. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,382 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation-writing workflow for producing clear technical documents such as READMEs, API references, and migration guides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect relevant project files, research changing external facts, map unfamiliar codebases, and write scannable technical documentation.
Why use it?
It keeps research and drafting separate, helping ensure the documentation is based on gathered evidence rather than guesses.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to inspect relevant project files, research changing external facts, map unfamiliar codebases, and write scannable technical documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/afaraha8403/balakit/documentation-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.

Any agent
npx skills add afaraha8403/balakit --skill documentation-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/afaraha8403/balakit

Made for: Claude Code.

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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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,382 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 $0.00095 $0.01382
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00691
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00138

Measured 7d ago against content hash d20a201d20b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documentation-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 7d 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/skills/documentation-writer/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documentation Writer

Leading words: research-first, evidence-aware, phase separation, scannability, BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front), progressive disclosure.

Research-first technical documentation workflow. Each phase ends with a checkpoint the agent must complete before proceeding — phase separation prevents the agent from drafting prose before the truth is gathered.

How this relates to subagents

Cursor does not expose user-defined nested sub-sub-agents in skill files. What you can do in practice:

  • Phased work: Treat each phase below as a distinct pass. That mimics routing without a separate UI.
  • Built-in delegation: If the host agent can launch a Task / explore subagent, use a read-only explore pass for large or unfamiliar codebases before drafting. Do not assume that tool exists; use it only when present.
  • Online research: Use web search (and official docs links from results) for anything version-sensitive or external.

Phase 1 — Discover (know what exists in-repo)

Read relevant files. For unfamiliar or large codebases, delegate broad mapping to an explore subagent when available.

Exit criteria: You can list every file/API/feature the docs must cover. 🛑 Checkpoint: Do not proceed to Research until the user confirms the scope (or you are explicitly operating solo and the scope is unambiguous).

Phase 2 — Research (external truth)

Run web research before asserting facts about:

  • Library/framework APIs, CLI flags, config keys, breaking changes, deprecations
  • Install commands, system requirements, LTS/support timelines
  • Security or compliance claims (cite sources; avoid unsourced absolutes)

Process: Form 2-4 precise search queries (product + version + topic). Prefer primary sources (official docs, repo README, standards bodies) over random blogs. Capture citations (link + short note of what it supports). If sources conflict, say what is uncertain and what to verify locally.

Exit criteria: Every claim you will make has a source link. 🛑 Checkpoint: Do not proceed to Outline until Research is complete.

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 7d ago First seen · 153 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A d20a201d20b0

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documentation-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository afaraha8403/balakit (1 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,382 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.

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