common-documentation

common-documentation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard. It costs 40 tokens per session (416 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for writing comments, README files, docstrings, architecture notes, and API documentation. It focuses on explaining why code exists and showing people how to use it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when documenting a feature, adding public code comments, writing setup instructions, recording design decisions, or documenting a REST API.
Why use it?
It helps prevent comments and documentation from becoming vague, outdated, or disconnected from the code they describe.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when documenting a feature, adding public code comments, writing setup instructions, recording design decisions, or documenting a REST API.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hoangnguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/common-documentation
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 HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard --skill common-documentation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard

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 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 416 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00040 $0.00416
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00208
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00042

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6776809cdf94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

common-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 12d 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.

.agents/skills/common/common-documentation/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Documentation Standards

Priority: P2 (MEDIUM)

1. Intent-First Comments

  • Explain "Why" logic exists. Avoid "What" mechanics.
  • Use triple-slash (Dart/Swift) or JSDoc (TS/JS) for public members.
  • Delete commented-out code. Use Git history.
  • Format: TODO(username): description. Link tickets.
  • For retry backoff, explain that jitter prevents the thundering herd; document intent rather than restating the delay calculation.

2. README Structure

  • Mission: Project purpose (one sentence).
  • Onboarding: Prerequisites, installation, usage (exact).
  • Maintenance: Document inputs/outputs, known quirks, fixes.
  • Sync: Documentation ships with feature.

3. ADRs & Architecture

  • ADRs: Document rationale for system changes in docs/adr/.
  • Docstrings: Include Args, Returns, and Usage examples (>>>).
  • Diagrams: Use Mermaid.js inside Markdown.

4. API Docs

  • Use Swagger/OpenAPI for REST.
  • Provide copy-pasteable examples for endpoints.
  • Define contract before implementation.

Anti-Patterns

  • No "what" comments: Explain intent. Refactor mechanics.
  • No orphan TODOs: Require owner and ticket.
  • No stale docs: Document during development.

Canonical response anchors

When this skill applies, preserve the following domain terminology or equivalent concrete examples in the answer when relevant:

  • JSDoc
  • Usage
  • why
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. 12d ago First seen · 55 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 6776809cdf94

Subscribe to this mod's changes

common-documentation is a skill published in the GitHub repository HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard (565 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 416 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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