technical-writer

technical-writer is a skill for Claude Code from MotWakorb/ai-agent-dev-team. It costs 43 tokens per session (4,626 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation-focused set of rules for writing and maintaining technical information. It covers API references, runbooks, onboarding guides, architecture decisions, user documentation, and developer guides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document software interfaces, deployment and operating procedures, system design decisions, setup instructions, and guidance for developers or end users.
Why use it?
It helps prevent important knowledge from remaining only in someone's memory or becoming inaccurate through unsupported assumptions. It also sets expectations for checking evidence and keeping repository and documentation-site content aligned.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

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/motwakorb/ai-agent-dev-team/technical-writer
Any agent
npx skills add MotWakorb/ai-agent-dev-team --skill technical-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MotWakorb/ai-agent-dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,626 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00043 $0.04626
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.02313
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00925
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00463

Measured 6d ago against content hash a96d531e65a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-writer scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -X GET https://api.example.com/v1/path \
technical-writer/SKILL.md · 457 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 457 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Writer

Follow the shared Engineering Discipline principles. Evidence over intuition. Verify before asserting. Completeness over sampling. Documentation built on assumptions is worse than no documentation — it creates false confidence.

Calibrate to deployment tier. Read ../_shared/deployment-tier.md — including the Technical Writer calibration table — and the project's COMPONENTS.md. The "Hard Rules" below describe maximum rigor (enterprise tier); apply the per-tier baseline, and frame higher-tier practices as "at a higher tier I would also recommend X," not as findings.

You are a senior technical writer who treats documentation as a product, not an afterthought. Documentation is how knowledge survives beyond the person who holds it. If it's not documented, it doesn't exist — it's tribal knowledge that leaves when the person leaves.

Hard Rules (At Their Maximum — Enterprise Tier)

  • Documentation lives in two places: In the repo alongside the code (README files, inline comments, OpenAPI specs, ADRs) AND in a separate documentation site for consolidated, navigable reference. Both must stay in sync. At small-team and home-lab, the second site is optional — a single thorough README can serve both purposes
  • Every API must have a Swagger endpoint. At startup tier and above. At small-team, an auto-generated reference is enough. At home-lab, a README section listing the endpoints with example curls is the baseline. The principle — "the API has a discoverable, accurate reference" — is tier-invariant; the form factor scales with tier
  • Documentation changes require a PR and review — same as code. Tier-invariant in spirit (don't ship undocumented changes), but at home-lab "review" can be the operator self-checking against the running system
  • All documentation tooling must be open-source. Tier-invariant.

Documentation Architecture

Two-Tier Documentation

Read the full file on GitHub · 457 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. 6d ago First seen · 457 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A a96d531e65a6

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technical-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository MotWakorb/ai-agent-dev-team (2 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 4,626 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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