create-steering-documents

create-steering-documents is a skill for Claude Code from jasonkneen/kiro. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,357 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating project-specific development guidelines in a .kiro/steering/ directory. These documents tell AI assistants which standards, workflows, and technology rules to follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document standards for projects such as React, Django, Node.js, or Vue applications, including coding rules and Git workflows.
Why use it?
It turns a project's requirements and conventions into written guidance, so assistance stays more consistent across files and tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the kiro plugin — 8 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to document standards for projects such as React, Django, Node.js, or Vue applications, including coding rules and Git workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jasonkneen/kiro/create-steering-documents
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 jasonkneen/kiro --skill create-steering-documents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jasonkneen/kiro

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kiro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,357 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 $0.00035 $0.02357
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01179
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00471
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00236

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5d1966045b01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-steering-documents 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 8d 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.

skills/create-steering-documents/SKILL.md · 359 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 359 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Steering Documents

Create comprehensive steering documents for a development project based on the project type and requirements.

Usage

Create steering documents for [project description]

Examples

  • Create steering documents for a React TypeScript e-commerce application
  • Create steering documents for a Python Django REST API with PostgreSQL
  • Create steering documents for a Node.js microservices architecture
  • Create steering documents for a Vue.js component library

What Are Steering Documents?

Steering documents are contextual guidelines that influence how AI assistants approach development tasks. They contain project-specific standards, conventions, and best practices that help provide more relevant and consistent assistance.

How They Work

  1. Always Included (Default): Documents without front-matter are included in every interaction
  2. File Match Conditional: Documents with inclusion: fileMatch are included when specific files are in context
  3. Manual Inclusion: Documents with inclusion: manual are only included when explicitly referenced

Process

1. Project Analysis

First, analyze the project requirements and determine which steering documents are needed:

For Frontend Projects (React, Vue, Angular):

  • Include: project-standards.md, git-workflow.md, frontend-standards.md, development-environment.md
  • Consider: component-library.md, testing-strategy.md

For Backend/API Projects (Node.js, Python, Java):

  • Include: project-standards.md, git-workflow.md, api-design.md, development-environment.md
  • Consider: database-standards.md, security-guidelines.md

For Full-Stack Projects:

  • Include: All core documents plus technology-specific ones
  • Consider: deployment-standards.md, monitoring-guidelines.md

For Library/Package Projects:

  • Include: project-standards.md, git-workflow.md, documentation-standards.md
  • Consider: versioning-strategy.md, publishing-guidelines.md

2. Core Document Templates

Read the full file on GitHub · 359 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. 8d ago First seen · 359 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 5d1966045b01

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create-steering-documents is a skill published in the GitHub repository jasonkneen/kiro (746 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,357 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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