documentation

documentation is a skill for Claude Code from ivegamsft/basecoat. It costs 79 tokens per session (422 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for creating, updating, or reviewing technical documentation, such as README files, architecture decision records, runbooks, and API references. It includes templates for these document types.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write a README, record an architecture decision, create an operational runbook, review documentation, or set documentation standards.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to capture how a project works, why decisions were made, and how to operate it. This helps prevent missing or unclear information in project documentation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to write a README, record an architecture decision, create an operational runbook, review documentation, or set documentation standards.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/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 ivegamsft/basecoat --skill documentation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivegamsft/basecoat

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

agentmods badge for documentation

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/documentation/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/documentation)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/documentation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/documentation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for documentation

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/documentation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/documentation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 422 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 $0.00079 $0.00422
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00211
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00042

Measured today against content hash b543470a2338, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

skills/documentation/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Documentation Skill

Use this skill when the task involves creating, updating, or reviewing technical documentation of any kind.

When to Use

  • Creating a new README or project overview
  • Recording an architecture decision (ADR)
  • Writing an operational runbook
  • Reviewing existing docs for accuracy and completeness
  • Establishing documentation standards for a project
  • Writing API reference documentation

How to Invoke

Reference this skill by attaching skills/documentation/SKILL.md to your agent context, or instruct the agent:

Use the documentation skill. Apply the ADR template to document our decision to adopt PostgreSQL.

Templates in This Skill

Template Purpose
readme-template.md Project README structure — overview, setup, usage, and contributing
adr-template.md Architecture Decision Record — context, decision, and consequences
runbook-template.md Operational runbook — trigger, steps, rollback, and escalation

Agent Pairing

This skill is designed to be used alongside the following agents:

  • tech-writer — Drives documentation creation using these templates
  • solution-architect — Provides architectural context for ADRs
  • devops-engineer — Provides operational context for runbooks
  • product-manager — Provides feature context for user-facing documentation

For code-level documentation (inline comments, docstrings), coordinate with the backend-dev or frontend-dev agents.

Files

What ships with it

4 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 First seen · 50 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A b543470a2338

Subscribe to this mod's changes

documentation is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivegamsft/basecoat (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 422 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-08.

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