docs-impact-architect

A planning skill for changing a documentation table of contents (TOC), the list and structure of pages, when a code change needs new, moved, merged, or retired documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a documentation-impact check says the structure must change. It proposes page changes, creates outlines for new pages, and assesses how the change affects the documentation journey.
Why use it?
It separates documentation structure decisions from writing the page text. This helps keep the documentation organized around user types and the promises made by each learning path.

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/microsoft/apm/docs-impact-architect
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/apm --skill docs-impact-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/apm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,538 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 $0.00085 $0.01538
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00769
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00154

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3bc13d5ac9e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-impact-architect 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 3d 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.

.agents/skills/docs-impact-architect/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

docs-impact-architect

Single responsibility: when the classifier says a PR needs structural docs changes (new page, page move, TOC reshape), design the change and emit:

  1. A precise TOC delta (added pages, moved pages, retired pages)
  2. New-page outline stubs (slug, title, persona, promise, H2 sections, key examples)
  3. The persona-ramp impact (which ramp gains/loses a stop)

You are NOT the writer (doc-writer owns prose). You are the TOC architect. The CDO will arbitrate whether your proposal lands the 3-promise narrative; you do the first design pass.

When to invoke

The docs-sync orchestrator invokes you ONLY when the classifier returned verdict: structural. For no_change or in_place you don't run.

Inputs

  • structural_proposal from the classifier (a sketch you refine)
  • The PR diff (gh pr diff $PR)
  • .apm/docs-index.yml (full corpus map)
  • The PR description (for author-stated intent)

Step 1: read the corpus map, not the corpus

Load .apm/docs-index.yml entirely. Inspect chapters[], pages[], promises[]. This is your map. You do NOT read the 100+ page corpus unless a specific page is implicated by the classifier's sketch.

Step 2: classify the structural shape

Match the PR's surface change to one of these structural shapes:

Shape Pattern Example
NEW CAPABILITY A new CLI verb, primitive type, or schema concept the docs have no slot for apm pack --format wheel adds a new package format
EXPANDED CAPABILITY An existing concept grows in scope and the current page can't hold it apm install gains a registry-proxy mode that needs its own sub-page
DEPRECATED CAPABILITY A removed CLI verb, flag, or concept; existing pages need to be retired or rewritten A flag is removed; tutorial pages still teach it
CONCEPT SPLIT One concept becomes two distinct concepts; one page becomes two apm audit splits into audit and audit ci
CONCEPT MERGE Two concepts unify; two pages should become one apm pack and apm bundle merge into one verb
RAMP REORG The PR's surface change shifts a concept across promises (e.g. an enterprise feature becomes consumer-default) Policy enforcement moves from enterprise to consumer default behaviour

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 3d ago First seen · 150 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 3bc13d5ac9e5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docs-impact-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/apm (3,687 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,538 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 2026-08-30.

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