agent-documenting-references

agent-documenting-references is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from majiayu000/claude-skill-registry. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,021 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of agent-documenting-references, MIT.

A documentation template for adding consistent reference sections to agent files. It covers project guidance, related agents, conventions, and reusable skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or updating agent documentation and linking it to project instructions, conventions, other agents, and skills.
Why use it?
It prevents agent documentation from becoming inconsistent or difficult to navigate. Readers can find related material and project rules in a predictable place.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions OpenCode.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is - [AGENTS.md](../../../CLAUDE.md) - Primary guidance for OpenCode.

Good fit Use it when creating or updating agent documentation and linking it to project instructions, conventions, other agents, and skills.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/agent-documenting-references

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,021 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00028 $0.02021
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01010
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00404
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00202

Measured 10d ago against content hash de9dba9a02b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-14, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-documenting-references 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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to agent-documenting-references — 37 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/agent/agent-documenting-references/SKILL.md · 317 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 317 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documenting Agent References

Standard structure for "Reference Documentation" sections in agent files to ensure consistent navigation and discoverability.

When This Skill Loads

This Skill auto-loads when implementing agents or updating agent documentation sections.

Reference Documentation Section

All agents SHOULD include a "Reference Documentation" section near the end (before any appendices) with standardized subsections.

Section Template

## Reference Documentation

**Project Guidance**:

- [AGENTS.md](../../../CLAUDE.md) - Primary guidance for OpenCode
- [Agent-specific convention](path/to/convention.md) - Domain-specific standards

**Related Agents**:

- `maker-agent` - Creates content for this domain
- `checker-agent` - Validates content (upstream dependency)
- `fixer-agent` - Fixes issues found by checker
- `related-domain-agent` - Related functionality

**Related Conventions**:

- [Primary Convention](path/to/convention.md) - Main standards this agent implements
- [Secondary Convention](path/to/convention.md) - Additional relevant standards

**Skills**:

- `primary-skill` - Main Skill for domain knowledge
- `wow-assessing-criticality-confidence` - Criticality assessment (if applicable)
- `wow-generating-validation-reports` - Report generation (if applicable)

Subsection Details

Project Guidance

Purpose: Link to primary project instructions and domain-specific conventions.

Always Include:

  • AGENTS.md.*primary guidance for all agents)

Conditionally Include:

  • Domain-specific conventions (e.g., README Quality Convention for readme-agents)
  • Framework-specific guidance (e.g., Hextra guide for ayokoding-web-agents)
  • Special standards relevant to agent's scope

Pattern:

**Project Guidance**:

- [AGENTS.md](../../../CLAUDE.md) - Primary guidance
- [Specific Convention](path/to/convention.md) - Domain standards
Related Agents

Purpose: Help users understand agent ecosystem and workflow relationships.

Read the full file on GitHub · 317 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 317 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A de9dba9a02b2

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agent-documenting-references is a skill published in the GitHub repository majiayu000/claude-skill-registry (607 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,021 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to agent-documenting-references, differing in 37 lines, and is treated as a copy.