technical-writing

technical-writing is a skill for Claude Code from Kong/ai-marketplace. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,954 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical-documentation writing guide for producing clear, task-focused instructions for developers and API users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or edit API guides, developer documentation, and Kong Konnect portal content using real technical details or clearly marked placeholders.
Why use it?
It helps organise complex technical information into plain, active-voice prose that readers can scan and follow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the kong-konnect plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write or edit API guides, developer documentation, and Kong Konnect portal content using real technical details or clearly marked placeholders.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kong/ai-marketplace/technical-writing
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 Kong/ai-marketplace --skill technical-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kong/ai-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kong-konnect, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,954 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 $0.00044 $0.01954
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00977
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00391
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00195

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8bab8b94fa26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-writing 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 12d 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/kong-konnect/skills/technical-writing/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical documentation writing

Goal

Write and edit developer-facing documentation that is easy to consume: plain, task-oriented, active-voice prose with scannable structure and clean punctuation. Own the words and their organization within a page.

Not Dev Portal specific, but it pairs with the portal skills: portal-page-design for the components that hold the prose, portal-branding for appearance. Work in page content files, locally or in a repo, and do not push destructive changes to a live portal unless the user explicitly asks.

Clarify First

Ask two or three high-impact questions, each with a default to confirm:

  • the reader and the task the page serves
  • the source of truth for the technical details
  • an existing page to match in tone and structure, if any
  • the depth expected, from quickstart to full reference

Tool Selection

  • Documenting Konnect resources: pull real details (control planes, services, routes, specs) from real entities through the kong-konnect MCP server instead of inventing values. If it is not connected, recommend installing it; otherwise ask the user for real values or mark them clearly as placeholders, not guesses.
  • Portal-page content: hand structure and components to portal-page-design and keep this skill on the prose.
  • Follow Kong's documentation style guide for terminology and capitalization on Kong content; default to the Google and Microsoft developer style guides otherwise.
  • Unsure of Kong terminology or how Kong documents a concept: check the server's Kong documentation knowledge base. If unavailable, rely on the style guides and flag anything you cannot confirm.

Workflow

  1. Name the reader and the task; lead with what the reader does.
  2. Choose the structure from that task and keep one use case on one page.
  3. Write in the house voice: second person, active voice, present tense, plain, front-loaded, scannable. Recommend choices with a reason.
  4. Make it self-contained: real values from MCP or the user, placeholders for reader-supplied values, one command per block, a verification step to close a how-to.
  5. Edit out the tells as a final pass.
  6. Match the density: cut a sentence that repeats the previous one; add one the reader would otherwise guess.

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 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. 12d ago First seen · 198 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 8bab8b94fa26

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technical-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kong/ai-marketplace (5 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,954 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 2026-08-31.

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