using-engineering-docs

A coordinator for preparing engineering documents from an early project idea. It asks discovery questions, selects the needed document-writing skills, and runs them in order.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting pre-development planning from a rough project description and producing a connected document set covering the relevant project decisions.
Why use it?
It helps turn an incomplete idea into an appropriate set of planning documents without requiring the user to know which document types or add-ons to choose.

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/fattain-naime/engineering-docs/using-engineering-docs
Any agent
npx skills add fattain-naime/engineering-docs --skill using-engineering-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fattain-naime/engineering-docs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,957 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 $0.00068 $0.06957
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.03478
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01391
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00696

Measured yesterday against content hash db57d1dbc11b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-engineering-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 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.

skills/using-engineering-docs/SKILL.md · 512 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 512 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Engineering-Docs Orchestrator

Purpose

Take a project idea in whatever form it arrives — a sentence, a messy paragraph, a half-formed concept — and turn it into a complete, right-sized set of pre-development documents, using the other skills in this plugin as building blocks. The user never needs to know a skill's name or pick one; they answer questions about their project, and this skill handles which document gets written, in what order, and by which underlying skill.

This is a router, not a writer. It does not draft documents itself — it understands the project well enough to hand off to the correct specialist skill at the correct time, in the correct sequence, and then stitches the results into one coherent, navigable set.

Input

Works best with: A description of the project idea, in the user's own words, at any level of polish — a one-line pitch is enough to start. Also valuable: Anything the user already knows: target users, rough scale, budget/timeline pressure, whether this is a side project or something with real users depending on it, any part of the idea they're already unsure about.

Do not require a polished brief before starting. Extracting the details is this skill's first job, not a precondition for using it.


Mode Detection

Before anything else, determine which of two modes you're operating in. The required documents and the questions are different.

Mode A — Greenfield (new product from an idea)

No existing .engineering-docs/ folder, and no indication of an existing codebase. Full pipeline runs, starting from business concept.

Mode B — Brownfield (new feature / change on an existing system)

Triggered when:

  • A .engineering-docs/ folder with an index.md already exists in the repo, OR
  • The user's request references "add a feature," "extend," "modify," or similar language, OR
  • An existing codebase is present in the project root with no engineering-docs history

In Mode B, do NOT re-run the full business-plan / system-architecture interview. Instead:

Read the full file on GitHub · 512 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 · 512 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A db57d1dbc11b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-engineering-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository fattain-naime/engineering-docs (4 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 6,957 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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