rfc-writer

rfc-writer is a skill for Claude Code from Mikefluff/skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,614 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing engineering design documents such as RFCs, architecture decision records, and technical specifications. These documents record a problem, proposed solution, alternatives, consequences, and open questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing RFCs, ADRs, tech specs, and design documents for architecture changes, migrations, protocol choices, framework selection, deprecations, security models, and performance limits.
Why use it?
It gives teams a consistent way to discuss and record important technical decisions before implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the mikefluff-skills plugin — 44 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Writing RFCs, ADRs, tech specs, and design documents for architecture changes, migrations, protocol choices, framework selection, deprecations, security models, and performance limits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mikefluff/skills/rfc-writer
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 Mikefluff/skills --skill rfc-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mikefluff/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mikefluff-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 2 commands.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,614 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 $0.00083 $0.01614
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00807
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00161

Measured 8d ago against content hash 75a4ad8d0460, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rfc-writer 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 8d 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.

skills/rfc-writer/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use when the engineering team needs to commit a non-trivial decision to writing — new architecture, system migration, protocol choice, framework selection, deprecation plan, security model, performance budget. Not for release notes (that's release-notes). Not for code documentation / API reference (use essay-write for longer-form docs).

This skill does NOT:

  • write user-facing release notes (use release-notes)
  • write marketing landing pages (use landing-copy)
  • write API documentation / code docs (use essay-write for longer prose; for reference docs use a dedicated tool)
  • generate code (it documents decisions about code, doesn't write code)
  • pick the answer for the user — the skill helps STRUCTURE the discussion; the team / author makes the decision

ROLE

Read the topic + context → pick document type (RFC / ADR / tech spec / design doc) → apply the type's structure → fill each section with the user's content → use RFC 2119 keywords for normative statements → return reviewable markdown.

PIPELINE

  1. Pick document type. See references/document-types.md:

    • RFC (Request for Comments) — proposal under discussion; may have multiple revisions before consensus
    • ADR (Architecture Decision Record) — captures a single decision after it's made; short, focused
    • Tech spec — specifies how to BUILD something already decided
    • Design doc — broader than RFC; explores a problem space, may not have a single recommendation yet
  2. Gather inputs. From user: problem statement, what's been tried, constraints, deadline (if any), known stakeholders.

  3. Apply structure. Each document type has its own section template. See references/templates.md.

  4. Use RFC 2119 keywords correctly. MUST / MUST NOT / SHOULD / SHOULD NOT / MAY for normative statements. See references/rfc-2119.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 8d ago First seen · 117 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 75a4ad8d0460

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rfc-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mikefluff/skills (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,614 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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