adev-writing-guide

A writing guide for Angular’s developer documentation, including its Markdown format and documentation-specific components. It applies Google’s technical-writing guidance to content in the adev documentation folders.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, editing, or reviewing files under adev/ or adev/src/content.
Why use it?
It helps keep Angular documentation clear, consistent, accessible, and aligned with the project’s formatting rules.

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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/angular/angular/adev-writing-guide
Any agent
npx skills add angular/angular --skill adev-writing-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/angular/angular

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,624 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.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00060 $0.01624
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00812
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00162

Measured yesterday against content hash d979050f7dc2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adev-writing-guide 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agent/skills/adev-writing-guide/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Angular Documentation (adev) Writing Guide

This skill provides comprehensive guidelines for authoring content in adev/src/content. It combines Google's technical writing standards with Angular-specific markdown conventions, components, and best practices.

I. Google Technical Writing Guidelines

Tone and Content

  • Be conversational and friendly: Maintain a helpful yet professional tone. Avoid being overly casual.
  • Write accessibly: Ensure documentation is understandable to a diverse global audience, including non-native English speakers.
  • Audience-first: Focus on what the user needs to do, not just what the system does.
  • Avoid pre-announcing: Do not mention unreleased features or make unsupported claims.
  • Use descriptive link text: Link text should clearly indicate the destination (e.g., avoid "click here").

Language and Grammar

  • Use second person ("you"): Address the reader directly.
  • Prefer active voice: Clearly state who or what is performing the action (e.g., "The system generates a token" vs "A token is generated").
  • Standard American English: Use standard American spelling and punctuation.
  • Conditional clauses first: Place "if" or "when" clauses before the instruction (e.g., "If you encounter an error, check the logs").
  • Define terms: Introduce new or unfamiliar terms/acronyms upon first use.
  • Consistent terminology: Use the same term for the same concept throughout the document.
  • Conciseness: Aim for one idea per sentence. Keep sentences short.

Formatting and Organization

  • Sentence case for headings: Capitalize only the first word and proper nouns in titles and headings.
  • Lists:
    • Numbered lists: Use for sequential steps or prioritized items.
    • Bulleted lists: Use for unordered collections of items.
    • Description lists: Use for term-definition pairs.
  • Serial commas: Use the Oxford comma (comma before the last item in a list of three or more).
  • Code formatting: Use code font for code-related text (filenames, variables, commands).
  • UI Elements: formatting user interface elements in bold.
  • Date formatting: Use unambiguous formats (e.g., "September 4, 2024" rather than "9/4/2024").
  • Structure: Use logical hierarchy with clear introductions and navigation. Headings should be task-based where possible.

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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. yesterday First seen · 179 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A d979050f7dc2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adev-writing-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository angular/angular (101,014 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,624 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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