tutorial-docs

tutorial-docs is a skill for Claude Code from existential-birds/beagle. It costs 60 tokens per session (2,730 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tutorial-writing guide for teaching a task through guided, hands-on steps. It is aimed at beginners and distinguishes tutorials from reference pages, explanations, and task-focused instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing getting-started guides, onboarding material, introductory lessons, or learn-by-doing documentation.
Why use it?
It helps turn unfamiliar subjects into a clear first experience instead of a page that only lists facts or options.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the beagle-docs plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing getting-started guides, onboarding material, introductory lessons, or learn-by-doing documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/existential-birds/beagle/tutorial-docs
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 existential-birds/beagle --skill tutorial-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/existential-birds/beagle

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install beagle-docs, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,730 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 $0.00060 $0.02730
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.01092
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00546
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00273

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6099ba004dfc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tutorial-docs 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.

plugins/beagle-docs/skills/tutorial-docs/SKILL.md · 380 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 380 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tutorial Documentation Skill

This skill provides patterns for writing effective tutorials following the Diataxis framework. Tutorials are learning-oriented content where the reader learns by doing under the guidance of a teacher.

Dependency: Use this skill with docs-style for core writing principles. To confirm a tutorial is the right type — rather than a how-to, reference, or explanation — see docs-style/references/diataxis-compass.md.

Purpose & Audience

Target readers:

  • Complete beginners with no prior experience
  • Users who want to learn, not accomplish a specific task
  • People who need a successful first experience with the product
  • Learners who benefit from guided, hands-on practice

Tutorials are NOT:

  • How-To guides (which help accomplish specific tasks)
  • Explanations (which provide understanding)
  • Reference docs (which describe the system)

Core Principles (Diataxis Framework)

1. Learn by Doing, Not by Reading

Tutorials teach through action, not explanation. The reader should be doing something at every moment.

Avoid Prefer
"REST APIs use HTTP methods to..." "Run this command to make your first API call:"
"Authentication is important because..." "Add your API key to authenticate:"
"The dashboard contains several sections..." "Click Create Project in the dashboard."

2. Deliver Visible Results at Every Step

After each action, tell readers exactly what they should see. This confirms success and builds confidence.

Run the development server:

```bash
npm run dev

You should see:

> Local: http://localhost:3000
> Ready in 500ms

Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser. You should see a welcome page with "Hello, World!" displayed.


### 3. One Clear Path, Minimize Choices

Tutorials should not offer alternatives. Pick one way and guide the reader through it completely.

| Avoid | Prefer |
|-------|--------|
| "You can use npm, yarn, or pnpm..." | "Install the dependencies:" |
| "There are several ways to configure..." | "Create a config file:" |
| "Optionally, you might want to..." | [Omit optional steps entirely] |

Read the full file on GitHub · 380 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. 1mo ago First seen · 380 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 6099ba004dfc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tutorial-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository existential-birds/beagle (82 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 2,730 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-16.

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