technical-writer

technical-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JayRHa/AgentSkills. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,700 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical-documentation assistant that creates guides, API documentation, READMEs, tutorials, reference pages, and release notes from source material. It adapts the structure and wording to the intended reader and task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or improve developer docs, onboarding material, how-to guides, API references, tutorials, runnable examples, and release notes.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered technical knowledge into documentation that readers can understand and follow without unnecessary jargon.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jayrha/agentskills/technical-writer
Any agent
npx skills add JayRHa/AgentSkills --skill technical-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JayRHa/AgentSkills

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.

agentmods badge for technical-writer

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jayrha/agentskills/technical-writer.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jayrha/agentskills/technical-writer)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jayrha/agentskills/technical-writer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jayrha/agentskills/technical-writer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,700 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00105 $0.01700
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00850
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00170

Measured yesterday against content hash 1f2839cd7393, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-writer 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/readability.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

technical-writer/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Writer

Overview

Keywords: technical documentation, docs, README, how-to guide, tutorial, reference, API docs, onboarding, release notes, plain language, audience analysis, information architecture, style guide, editing, clarity.

This skill turns raw knowledge — code, features, processes, half-written notes — into documentation a real reader can act on. Good technical writing is not "explain everything"; it is "help this specific reader accomplish this specific task with the least friction." That means choosing the correct document type, ordering information so the reader is never blocked, writing in plain language, and proving claims with concrete, copy-pasteable examples.

Use the bundled resources:

  • references/doc-types.md — the four Diátaxis document types (tutorial, how-to, reference, explanation), when to use each, and structural templates.
  • references/style-guide.md — plain-language rules, sentence/word patterns, formatting conventions, accessibility, and an editing checklist.
  • scripts/readability.py — a stdlib-only readability and writing-smell analyzer (grade level, passive voice, long sentences, weasel words). Runs on any .md or .txt.
  • templates/how-to-guide.md — a fill-in template for a task-oriented guide.
  • examples/before-after.md — a worked rewrite of a weak doc section into a strong one.

Workflow

Follow these steps in order. Do not start writing prose until steps 1–3 are done.

  1. Identify the reader and their job. Ask or infer: Who reads this? (end user, integrating developer, ops engineer, new teammate, executive.) What is their current knowledge level? What single task or question brings them here? What do they need to be true when they leave? Write this down in one sentence: "This doc helps [reader] [accomplish task] so that [outcome]."

  2. Choose the document type. Use references/doc-types.md and the decision table below. Mixing types in one document is the most common cause of confusing docs — keep a tutorial out of your reference, keep explanation out of your how-to.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. yesterday First seen · 92 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 1f2839cd7393

Subscribe to this mod's changes

technical-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository JayRHa/AgentSkills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,700 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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