idm_standards: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/update-docs-plugin/SKILL.md

update-docs-plugin is a skill for Claude Code from InstituteforDiseaseModeling/idm_standards. It costs 123 tokens per session (2,425 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance skill for updating documentation-related add-on instructions when their source guidance changes. It also covers keeping the related documentation standards and version history in sync.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when documentation guidance changes, or when the documentation plugin needs its skills, version, and change log updated to match.
Why use it?
It prevents documentation review tools from using outdated rules after the project's guidance has changed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery.

This is InstituteforDiseaseModeling/idm_standards's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on idm_standards itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything idm_standards configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to InstituteforDiseaseModeling/idm_standards. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/InstituteforDiseaseModeling/idm_standards/main/.claude/skills/update-docs-plugin/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/InstituteforDiseaseModeling/idm_standards

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,425 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 $0.00123 $0.02425
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01213
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00243

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5854326803af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-docs-plugin 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 9d 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.

.claude/skills/update-docs-plugin/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update the idm-standards docs skills from docs_guidance

The documentation skills in idm_standards_plugin/skills/ (audit-docs, audit-docs-structure, audit-personas, audit-docstrings) are derived from, and must stay consistent with, the source documentation in docs_guidance/. When the guidance changes, these skills need to learn those changes — otherwise the plugin drifts from the project's actual documentation standards and the audit/review skills give stale advice.

Exception — audit-docstrings: this skill's content is sourced from eng_guidance/4_documentation.md, not docs_guidance/ (docs_guidance/topic-types/reference.md itself points there for docstring guidance). If you're doing a general sync pass, also diff eng_guidance/4_documentation.md over the same range and propagate changes to audit-docstrings alongside whatever docs_guidance/ changes you find — don't skip it just because it's outside docs_guidance/. This is also covered from the other direction by idm_standards_plugin/admin/update_prompt.md (step 2c); if that pass already ran for this range, don't duplicate the edit.

The audit-docs skill also ships the canonical Vale config and reference docs templates — vale.ini, styles/, and docs_templates/ — under idm_standards_plugin/skills/audit-docs/assets/. An installed plugin only ships the idm_standards_plugin/ directory, so these live inside it where the skill can read them at runtime. These are the only copies (the repo formerly duplicated them at the repo root, but those were removed); edit them directly in place. A change to any of them is a behavior change to audit-docs and counts toward the version bump and changelog (see step 6b).

This skill walks you through that sync: identify what changed, figure out which plugin skills need updating, propose the edits, apply them, bump the version, and update the changelog.

Workflow

1. Determine the diff range

If the user specified a commit, commit range, or date range in their request, use that. Otherwise default to "since the last release": the diff range is the commit that set the current plugin version → HEAD.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 9d ago First seen · 154 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 5854326803af

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-docs-plugin is a skill published in the GitHub repository InstituteforDiseaseModeling/idm_standards (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 2,425 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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