adev:document

A tool that generates readable developer documentation from a map of the project's code, its important symbols, and its feature information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or refresh the overall architecture documentation or one module's documentation. It can also show what would change without writing files.
Why use it?
It turns code-structure data into documentation that people can use to understand the architecture and individual modules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/agentic-development/adev-plugin/document
Any agent
npx skills add agentic-development/adev-plugin --skill document
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentic-development/adev-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,389 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 $0.00083 $0.01389
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00139

Measured 2d ago against content hash 09576cfef94f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adev:document 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.

providers/codex/skills/document/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate Developer Documentation

Produce human-readable documentation in docs/ from .context-index/ artifacts.

Arguments

  • No arguments: generate all documentation
  • --module <slug>: regenerate only docs/modules/<slug>.md
    • Validate slug matches pattern ^[a-z0-9_-]+$ — exit 1 if invalid
    • Prevent path traversal: reject slugs containing ".." or use path.resolve to normalize and verify it stays within docs/modules/
    • Check slug exists in manifest — exit 1 with error " not found in manifest" if missing
  • --check: compute what would change, output diff without writing
  • --force: regenerate all sections unconditionally

Precondition Checks

  1. Check .context-index/hygiene/dependency-graph.json exists
    • If missing: exit 1 with error "Run /adev:repomap first to generate dependency-graph.json"
  2. Check .context-index/hygiene/symbol-ranks.json exists (symbol index)
  • If missing: exit 1 with error "Run /adev:repomap first to generate symbol-ranks.json"
  1. Check .context-index/manifest.yaml exists
    • If missing: exit 1 with error "Run /adev:init first to generate manifest.yaml"
  2. If docs/ does not exist, create it

Marker Protocol

Every file uses two-zone layout:

[generated content — owned by /adev:document]

<!-- adev:generated -->

<!-- adev:human -->

[human content — owned by developer, never overwritten]

Rules:

Condition Action
Both markers present Preserve content after <!-- adev:human -->, regenerate before
Only <!-- adev:human --> File is human-owned, do NOT overwrite
Only <!-- adev:generated --> Regenerate entire file
Neither marker Write fresh with both markers

Step 1: Generate docs/architecture.md

1.1 Load Inputs

File Required Purpose
dependency-graph.json Yes Module dependency edges
symbol-ranks.json Yes Exported symbols ranked by reference
manifest.yaml Yes Module list, project metadata
constitution.md Optional Project principles
platform-context.yaml Optional Runtime environment

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 188 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 09576cfef94f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adev:document is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentic-development/adev-plugin (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,389 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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