docs-writer

docs-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit. It costs 36 tokens per session (724 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation checklist that keeps the README and related guides aligned with the software. It focuses on public commands, APIs, settings, installation steps, and user-visible behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after changing a public API, feature, command, environment variable, installation process, or other behavior users can see.
Why use it?
It prevents users from following outdated instructions or relying on examples and configuration details that no longer work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it after changing a public API, feature, command, environment variable, installation process, or other behavior users can see.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/docs-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 byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit --skill docs-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 724 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 $0.00036 $0.00724
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00362
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00072

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0caa94c150fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-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 10d 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-starter/skills/docs-writer/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documentation

Trigger phrases: "documentation", "docs", "update README", "API docs", "write docs", "document it", "write usage"

Goal: the docs must match the code. Wrong/stale docs are worse than no docs (they inspire trust and mislead). Trigger: when a public API, command, configuration, or user-visible behavior changes.

When it is mandatory

  • A public function/endpoint/CLI signature or behavior changed.
  • A new feature, configuration key, or environment variable was added.
  • The install/run steps changed.
  • A breaking change was made (also coordinate via release/CHANGELOG).

Checklist

  • Docs are up to date for the changed public surface
  • Examples work (copy-paste tested / mentally traced)
  • Dead/misleading wording removed (no leftover old name/parameter)
  • New configuration/env documented (default + whether required)
  • Scope minimal — not a repetition of the code, but "why/how to use it"
  • No secret/real credential in the docs (use a placeholder)

How

  1. Identify the changed surface — extract the public signature/behavior diff from the diff.
  2. Find the right doc — README, docs/, docstring, OpenAPI, command --help. If there is more than one, update them all.
  3. Write: what it does · how it is called (example) · input/output · limits/error cases. Short and correct.
  4. Verify the examples — does the command/code example actually run.
  5. Clean up the old — delete references to removed APIs/parameters.
  6. Translation: if the user-visible doc is multilingual, coordinate with i18n-integrity.

Principles

  • Single source — behavior lives in the code; the doc explains it, does not copy it (a copied doc goes stale).
  • Example > paragraph — a working example beats three paragraphs.
  • Minimal — don't write a giant doc no one will maintain; answer the most-asked question.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 10d ago First seen · 56 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 0caa94c150fa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docs-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 724 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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