documentation

documentation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DevelopersGlobal/ai-agent-skills. It costs 30 tokens per session (707 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation guide focused on recording why technical decisions were made, not only what the code does.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing architecture decision records, documenting unusual code decisions, and creating runbooks for operational procedures.
Why use it?
It preserves architectural reasoning, non-obvious code choices, and operational knowledge for future maintainers.

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/developersglobal/ai-agent-skills/documentation
Any agent
npx skills add DevelopersGlobal/ai-agent-skills --skill documentation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DevelopersGlobal/ai-agent-skills

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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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 707 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 $0.00030 $0.00707
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00353
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 3d ago against content hash e271da494001, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documentation 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 3d 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.

skills/documentation/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Code explains what. Documentation explains why. The most valuable documentation records decisions that aren't obvious from reading the code: why this architecture, why this tradeoff, why not the obvious alternative.

When to Use

  • After any significant architectural decision
  • Before complex code that future maintainers will question
  • When an operational procedure isn't self-evident
  • When a non-obvious tradeoff was made

Process

Step 1: Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)

For every significant architectural decision:

  1. Write an ADR with:
    • Context: What was the situation requiring a decision?
    • Decision: What was decided?
    • Alternatives considered: What else was evaluated and why rejected?
    • Consequences: What are the positive and negative consequences?
    • Status: Proposed | Accepted | Deprecated | Superseded
  2. Store ADRs in docs/decisions/ as numbered markdown files.

Verify: Every significant decision in the last sprint has an ADR.

Step 2: Code-Level Documentation

  1. Document the WHY, not the WHAT:
    • // Using exponential backoff here — the payment API has strict rate limits (3 req/sec)
    • // Retry the request
  2. Document non-obvious algorithmic choices.
  3. Document external constraints (rate limits, API quirks, platform limitations).
  4. Remove comments that state the obvious — they add noise.

Verify: Every non-obvious code block has a "why" comment.

Step 3: Runbooks

  1. For every production process that humans execute, write a runbook:
    • When is this runbook used?
    • What steps to execute?
    • What does "done" look like?
    • What could go wrong and how to recover?
  2. Runbooks live in docs/runbooks/.

Verify: Every on-call alert has a linked runbook.

Step 4: README Currency

  1. README reflects current state (not v1 state).
  2. Setup instructions work on a fresh machine.
  3. Architecture diagram updated after significant changes.

Common Rationalizations (and Rebuttals)

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 3d ago First seen · 82 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A e271da494001

Subscribe to this mod's changes

documentation is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevelopersGlobal/ai-agent-skills (65 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 707 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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