user-guides

user-guides is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from littlebearapps/pitchdocs. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,833 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A generator for step-by-step guides that show users how to complete specific tasks in a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create guides in docs/guides/ for common workflows, integrations, and advanced usage, with links from the README and contributor guide.
Why use it?
It separates practical instructions from introductory README content and organizes them by documentation purpose.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the pitchdocs plugin — 16 skills, 15 commands, 4 agents shipped together

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/littlebearapps/pitchdocs/user-guides
Any agent
npx skills add littlebearapps/pitchdocs --skill user-guides
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/littlebearapps/pitchdocs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pitchdocs, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 15 commands, 4 agents.

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 user-guides

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/littlebearapps/pitchdocs/user-guides.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/littlebearapps/pitchdocs/user-guides)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/littlebearapps/pitchdocs/user-guides"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/littlebearapps/pitchdocs/user-guides.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,833 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 5.1 $0.00065 $0.01833
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00916
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00183

Measured 5d ago against content hash 45caaa75ca80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

user-guides 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/user-guides/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Guide Generator

Philosophy

User guides answer the question: "How do I do [specific thing]?"

They complement the README (which sells and introduces) by providing detailed, task-oriented instructions for users who are already onboard.

Diataxis Framework

All documentation should be classified into one of four quadrants from the Diataxis framework. Each quadrant serves a different reader need:

Quadrant Purpose Reader State Directory
Tutorials Learning-oriented lessons "I want to learn" docs/tutorials/
How-to Guides Task-oriented recipes "I want to do X" docs/guides/
Reference Information-oriented lookup "I need to check Y" docs/reference/ or docs/api/
Explanation Understanding-oriented context "I want to understand why" docs/explanation/

Rules:

  • Classify every document into exactly one quadrant before writing — don't mix tutorial prose with reference tables
  • Tutorials walk through a complete learning journey; guides solve a specific task
  • Reference docs are dry, accurate, and complete. Explanation docs cover architecture decisions and "why".
  • At minimum, provide How-to Guides (this skill's primary output) and link to any existing reference docs
  • During guide discovery (Step 1), classify each existing doc into a quadrant. Flag any quadrant with zero documents.

See SKILL-reference.md for frontmatter field tables and title conventions.

Guide Structure

Directory Layout

docs/
├── tutorials/                  # Learning-oriented lessons (Diataxis: Tutorial)
│   └── build-your-first-app.md
├── guides/                     # Task-oriented how-to recipes (Diataxis: How-to)
│   ├── getting-started.md      # First-time setup, expanded quickstart
│   ├── configuration.md        # All config options explained
│   ├── [task-name].md          # One guide per common task
│   └── troubleshooting.md      # Common problems and solutions
├── reference/                  # Information-oriented lookup (Diataxis: Reference)
│   ├── api.md                  # API reference
│   └── cli.md                  # CLI reference
├── explanation/                # Understanding-oriented context (Diataxis: Explanation)
│   └── architecture.md         # Design decisions and architecture
└── README.md                   # Docs index / hub page

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 5d ago First seen · 202 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 45caaa75ca80

Subscribe to this mod's changes

user-guides is a skill published in the GitHub repository littlebearapps/pitchdocs (8 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,833 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.