arn-code-document-project

A documentation workflow for a completed software feature or bug fix. It reads project plans, specifications, reports, and code changes to describe what was built and where it is in the codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create reference documentation after implementing a feature or fixing a bug.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk that developer documentation will describe the original plan instead of the code that was actually delivered.

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/appsvortex/arness/arn-code-document-project
Any agent
npx skills add AppsVortex/arness --skill arn-code-document-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AppsVortex/arness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,379 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 $0.00101 $0.01379
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00690
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00138

Measured yesterday against content hash b7594142c9b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arn-code-document-project 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.

plugins/arn-code/skills/arn-code-document-project/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness Document Project

Generate developer documentation for a completed feature or bug fix by reading plan artifacts, spec files, execution reports, and git diff to produce accurate, reference-heavy documentation.

Pipeline position:

arn-code-execute-plan -> arn-code-review-implementation -> **arn-code-document-project** -> arn-code-ship

This skill produces a single documentation file (or directory for complex projects) that captures what was actually built, how it diverges from the original plan, and where to find everything in the codebase.

Workflow

Step 1: Load Configuration

  1. Read the project's CLAUDE.md and extract the ## Arness section to find:
    • Plans directory -- base path where project plans are saved
    • Specs directory -- path to the directory containing specification files
    • Code patterns -- path to the directory containing stored pattern documentation
    • Docs directory -- path to the directory where documentation is written
  2. Template version check: If Template version and Template updates fields are present in the ## Arness section, run the template version check procedure from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/arn-code-save-plan/references/template-versioning.md before proceeding. If these fields are not present, treat as legacy and skip.
  3. Ask for PROJECT_NAME if not provided in the trigger message.
  4. Verify the project directory exists with reports: <plans-dir>/<PROJECT_NAME>/reports/
  5. If Docs directory is not in config, default to .arness/docs/

Step 2: Read Plan Artifacts

Read these files from <plans-dir>/<PROJECT_NAME>/:

  1. INTRODUCTION.md -- project overview, goals, key decisions
  2. SOURCE_PLAN.md -- original implementation plan
  3. All phase plans in plans/PHASE_*.md -- acceptance criteria, expected files
  4. All reports in reports/ -- implementation reports, testing reports
  5. PROGRESS_TRACKER.json -- overall completion status (if it exists)

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. yesterday First seen · 140 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A b7594142c9b2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

arn-code-document-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,379 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 2026-08-30.