spellbook: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/documentation-updates/SKILL.md

documentation-updates is a skill for Claude Code from axiomantic/spellbook. It costs 26 tokens per session (512 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance checklist for changes to a library of coding skills, commands, or agents. It keeps the changelog, README counts and links, and generated documentation aligned with the actual files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for updating release notes and documentation after adding, changing, or removing library content, then checking that generated files are current.
Why use it?
It prevents documentation from becoming outdated or misleading after the library changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is axiomantic/spellbook's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on spellbook itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything spellbook configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to axiomantic/spellbook. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axiomantic/spellbook/main/.claude/skills/documentation-updates/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axiomantic/spellbook

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.

agentmods badge for documentation-updates

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/axiomantic/spellbook/documentation-updates/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/axiomantic/spellbook/documentation-updates)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/axiomantic/spellbook/documentation-updates"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/axiomantic/spellbook/documentation-updates/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for documentation-updates

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/axiomantic/spellbook/documentation-updates"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/axiomantic/spellbook/documentation-updates.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 512 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 10
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00026 $0.00512
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00205
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00051

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 845c36602cf2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documentation-updates 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/documentation-updates/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documentation Updates

Invariant Principles

  1. Library changes require documentation trail - Every modification to installed content must be traceable through CHANGELOG
  2. Counts must match reality - README totals reflect actual files, never stale
  3. Generated docs stay fresh - Run generator after any library content change
  4. Repo skills are invisible - Internal tooling never touches external docs

Required Updates Matrix

Change CHANGELOG README Docs Generator
Add library skill "Added" section count++, add table row, add link ref Run
Modify library skill "Changed" section Only if description changed Run
Remove library skill "Removed" section count--, remove row/link Run
Add/modify command Appropriate section Update if count/description affected Run

Verification Checklist

  • CHANGELOG.md has entry under ## [Unreleased]
  • README.md counts match ls skills/*/SKILL.md | wc -l and ls commands/*.md | wc -l
  • New items have table rows AND link references
  • python3 scripts/generate_docs.py executed
  • Pre-commit hooks committed generated files

CHANGELOG Entry Format

## [Unreleased]

### Added
- **skill-name skill** - one-line description
  - Notable feature bullet

### Changed
- **skill-name skill** - what changed and why

### Removed
- **skill-name skill** - removal rationale
[skill-name]: https://axiomantic.github.io/spellbook/latest/skills/skill-name/

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 1mo ago First seen · 67 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 845c36602cf2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

documentation-updates is a skill published in the GitHub repository axiomantic/spellbook (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 512 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.