agent-documenting-references

agent-documenting-references is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from majiayu000/claude-skill-registry. It costs 34 tokens per session (2,136 once invoked), scanned A, original, 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 Claude Code.

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

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-19c4f77e

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,136 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00034 $0.02136
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01068
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00214

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6ff4cebaa67b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 9d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/agent/agent-documenting-references-19c4f77e/SKILL.md · 320 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 320 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**:

- [CLAUDE.md](../../CLAUDE.md) - Primary guidance for Claude Code
- [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:

  • CLAUDE.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**:

- [CLAUDE.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 · 320 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. 9d ago First seen · 320 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 6ff4cebaa67b

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agent-documenting-references is a skill published in the GitHub repository majiayu000/claude-skill-registry (606 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,136 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 2026-09-03.