ia-md-docs

ia-md-docs is a skill for Claude Code from iliaal/whetstone. It costs 50 tokens per session (783 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of md-docs, MIT.

A workflow for maintaining project context and documentation files such as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and DOCS.md. It checks the actual codebase before creating or changing those files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, initialise, update, and verify project documentation and agent context files.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of documentation describing old paths, commands, or project structure. It also keeps instructions used by coding agents aligned with the repository.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: paths in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the whetstone plugin — 32 skills, 22 commands, 19 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to create, initialise, update, and verify project documentation and agent context files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iliaal/whetstone/ia-md-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 iliaal/whetstone --skill ia-md-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iliaal/whetstone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install whetstone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 22 commands, 19 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 783 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.00783
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00392
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00078

Measured today against content hash 962aa2a50781, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ia-md-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 today.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to md-docs — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/whetstone/skills/ia-md-docs/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Markdown Documentation

Manage project documentation by verifying against actual codebase state -- analyze structure, files, and patterns before writing; never generate blind.

Working rules

  • Read existing documentation and verify its claims against actual code and commands before editing.
  • Preserve request authority, external-action boundaries, proof standards, and failure-attribution rules when condensing context.
  • Do not create CONTRIBUTING.md or DOCS.md as a side effect; apply the specific workflow's creation limits.
  • Keep cross-cutting conventions discoverable in the main context file and avoid duplicated volatile facts.
  • Report actual edits and checks; do not claim snippets or external identifiers verified without checking them.

Portability

AGENTS.md is the universal context file (works with Claude Code, Codex, Kilocode). During Initialize Context or Update Context Files workflows only: if CLAUDE.md exists without AGENTS.md, confirm with the user first (Ask via AskUserQuestion (Claude Code; load with ToolSearch select:AskUserQuestion if not loaded) or request_user_input (Codex); fall back to numbered options in chat), then mv CLAUDE.md AGENTS.md && ln -sf AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md. Never migrate as a side effect of another task.

When this skill references "context files", it means AGENTS.md (and CLAUDE.md if present as symlink).

Monorepos

Multi-package repo? Read monorepo.md before any update-*/init-* sweep (discovery commands, per-file scoping, context-loading rules). Enumerate targets; if the sweep would create or rewrite more than 3 files, stop: list planned targets and confirm before writing (same ask mechanism as in Portability above).

Arguments

Treat these as user-request modifiers: apply when the request contains the flag or equivalent phrasing. All workflows support:

  • --dry-run: preview changes as a diff, write nothing
  • --preserve: keep existing structure, fix inaccuracies only
  • --minimal: quick pass, high-level structure only
  • --thorough: deep analysis of all files

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files 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. today Changed · -77 lines 962aa2a50781
  2. yesterday First seen · 163 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A f95a9676baf0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ia-md-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository iliaal/whetstone (33 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 783 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to md-docs, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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