tend-docs

A guide for writing technical documentation using Diátaxis, a method that separates tutorials, how-to guides, explanations, and reference material.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or update documentation for developers, choosing the right audience and organizing the page around their task or question.
Why use it?
It helps match the page's structure and detail to what the reader is trying to learn or do.

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/juxt/claude-plugins/tend-docs
Any agent
npx skills add juxt/claude-plugins --skill tend-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juxt/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,466 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 $0.00081 $0.01466
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00733
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00147

Measured 2d ago against content hash 05e151334dc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tend-docs 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 2d 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.

plugins/chalk/skills/tend-docs/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tend — Technical Documentation

Interpret MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, MAY, etc. per RFC 2119.

Write or update a docs page for a technical audience — developers, operators, integrators. This skill MUST decline, politely, if asked to write for a non-technical audience — marketing copy, end-user help aimed at non-technical readers, general-audience prose. Suggest a different approach instead.

Your Responsibilities

  1. Name the audience.

    The audience MUST be named — to the user, or in a code comment on the draft — before the page is written.

    Technical is not specific enough — pick one:

    • Newcomer — has never used this product. Needs just enough context to evaluate or get started. Will re-read.
    • Returning power-user Has used it before, coming back for a specific detail. Skims, looks up, leaves. Values terseness.
    • Operator mid-task Is running this thing in production and needs to make it do a thing now. Values step-order and concrete identifiers.
    • Developer integrating Is wiring this into their own code. Values signatures, examples, failure modes.

    If you can't tell from the page's location and surrounding pages, ask.

  2. Identify the Diataxis quadrant(s).

    Diataxis names four: tutorial, how-to, reference, explanation. Load chalk:voice's references/docs-quadrants.md — it carries the voice for the three that nothing else here needs.

    Each section MUST commit to one quadrant, and sections MUST NOT blur. A how-to section that drifts into explanation loses the reader mid-task; an explanation section that drifts into reference buries the mental model.

    The test isn't "where does this page live?" — it's "what is this paragraph or section for?". Decide the quadrant of the page as a whole, and of each section, before writing.

  3. Discover project conventions.

    Read the repo before writing.

    In order of priority:

    • A docs README (e.g. docs/README.md) — if present, it's the authoritative style guide. Follow it even where it disagrees with your defaults.
    • A CLAUDE.md at the repo root or in the docs directory.
    • Existing sibling pages — match their shape (frontmatter, heading depth, changelog format, version-marker style, callout syntax, cross-link style).
    • Recent commits and PRs touching docs — they show what's been landing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. 2d ago First seen · 132 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 05e151334dc4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tend-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository juxt/claude-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,466 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 2026-08-31.

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