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.
npx skills add johnqtcg/awesome-skills --skill tech-doc-writergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnqtcg/awesome-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/tech-doc-writer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/tech-doc-writer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/tech-doc-writer/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/tech-doc-writer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/tech-doc-writer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Prompt Injection · line 73 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Prompt Injection · line 207 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00133 | $0.07098 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00053 | $0.02839 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00027 | $0.01420 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00710 |
Grade A, and why
tech-doc-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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 489 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Tech Doc Writer
Quick Reference
| If you need to… | Go to |
|---|---|
| Write a new document from scratch | §Execution Modes → Write + §Workflow (Phases 0→5) |
| Review an existing document for quality | §Execution Modes → Review + §Quality Scorecard |
| Improve / refactor an existing document | §Execution Modes → Improve (minimal-diff) |
| Choose the right document type and template | §Gate 2: Classify Type and Audience + Load references/templates.md |
| Write for a mixed audience (execs + engineers) | Load references/writing-quality-guide.md §Funnel Structure |
| Include code examples or CLI commands | Load references/writing-quality-guide.md §Code Examples |
| Find and fix common doc mistakes (12 anti-patterns) | Load references/writing-quality-guide.md §Anti-Examples |
| Set up doc CI / PR templates / auto-generation | Load references/docs-as-code.md |
Execution Modes
Write (new document from scratch)
- Full document generated from audience analysis and type classification.
- Use templates from templates.md as starting points.
- Requires Phase 0–5 of the workflow.
Review (evaluate existing document)
- Read the full document first.
- Classify its type, then run the Quality Scorecard.
- Report findings grouped by severity (Critical / Major / Minor).
- Provide concrete before/after fixes, not vague suggestions.
Improve (refactor existing document)
- Minimal-diff edits — change only what the scorecard flags; do not rewrite sections that already pass.
- Preserve the author's voice and existing structure where they work.
Mandatory Gates
Gates are serial. Each must pass before the next. If a gate cannot be executed, apply the Degradation Strategy.
Gate 0: Execution Integrity
- Never fabricate document content that claims to be from the codebase (commands, configs, API parameters) without verifying it actually exists.
- Never claim you verified a command is runnable unless you actually executed it.
- Every command in a delivered document carries a verification level (below). Unlabelled commands are treated as V3.
What ships with it
32 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.
- references/docs-as-code.md 7.9 KB
- references/templates.md 7.2 KB
- references/writing-quality-guide.md 12 KB
- scripts/lint_doc.py 41 KB runs code
- scripts/run_regression.sh 7.3 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/ab_eval.py 11 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/COVERAGE.md 23 KB
- scripts/tests/forward_eval/audience_unknown/bad.md 488 B
- scripts/tests/forward_eval/audience_unknown/good.md 2.7 KB
- scripts/tests/forward_eval/improve_minimal_diff/bad.md 2.3 KB
- scripts/tests/forward_eval/improve_minimal_diff/good.md 2.8 KB
- scripts/tests/forward_eval/review_troubleshooting/bad.md 653 B
- scripts/tests/forward_eval/review_troubleshooting/good.md 2.5 KB
- scripts/tests/forward_eval/runbook_write/bad.md 519 B
- scripts/tests/forward_eval/runbook_write/good.md 3.3 KB
- scripts/tests/forward_eval/scaffold_level3/bad.md 1.1 KB
- scripts/tests/forward_eval/scaffold_level3/good.md 2.7 KB
- scripts/tests/golden/001_write_api_runbook.json 583 B
- scripts/tests/golden/002_review_troubleshooting_doc.json 576 B
- scripts/tests/golden/003_mixed_audience_design_doc.json 687 B
- scripts/tests/golden/004_audience_unknown_degradation.json 782 B
- scripts/tests/golden/005_insufficient_info_scaffold.json 872 B
- scripts/tests/golden/006_improve_existing_doc.json 2.2 KB
- scripts/tests/golden/007_repo_has_chinese_convention.json 549 B
- scripts/tests/golden/008_doc_with_code_examples.json 678 B
- scripts/tests/stub_writer.py 4.3 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_cross_layer_drift.py 9.2 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_forward_eval.py 41 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_golden_scenarios.py 5.2 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_lint_doc.py 37 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_skill_contract.py 27 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_templates_lint.py 15 KB runs code
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 489 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 193c7a67253d
tech-doc-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnqtcg/awesome-skills (30 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 7,098 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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