excellent-project-docs

excellent-project-docs is a skill for Codex from mushroomTW/MushroomTW-Skills. It costs 168 tokens per session (3,504 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of workflows for creating, improving, reviewing, and keeping a software repository's documentation up to date. It covers the README and related files such as contribution, security, architecture, roadmap, and support guides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or audit repository documentation, organize companion files, and update documentation after code or configuration changes. It is useful for making a project understandable without reading its source code.
Why use it?
It helps documentation stay clear, accurate, and easy for a new contributor or user to navigate. It also helps find outdated information and decide whether to edit an existing document or write a new one.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to write or audit repository documentation, organize companion files, and update documentation after code or configuration changes. It is useful for making a project understandable without reading its source code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mushroomtw/mushroomtw-skills/excellent-project-docs
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 mushroomTW/MushroomTW-Skills --skill excellent-project-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mushroomTW/MushroomTW-Skills

Made for: Codex.

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 168 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,504 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 $0.00168 $0.03504
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01752
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00701
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00350

Measured yesterday against content hash 4e1eaafc8c68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-13, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

excellent-project-docs 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_docs.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

excellent-project-docs/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Excellent Project Docs

A repository's documentation is a hub and its satellites. The README is the hub: an entry point, not a complete manual, that helps the reader decide “Is this for me?” and reach a first success without reading source code. Companion documents — CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, and the others in companion-documents — are satellites: each holds one topic that would bloat the README, and the README links to it. Put disqualifying prerequisites and limitations early; helping a non-fit reader leave quickly is success.

Work modes

First identify the requested outcome:

  • Create: the target document does not exist; build a first draft from repository facts.
  • Improve: preserve correct content while fixing structure, clarity, gaps, and drift. Prefer in-place edits. 🔴 CHECKPOINT before a full rewrite of any existing document: inventory its unique content and wait for explicit approval; without it, edit in place.
  • Audit: do not edit first; report evidence, problems, risks, and priority-ordered recommendations across the whole document set.
  • Synchronize: update facts affected by code or configuration changes in every document that states them; treat drift as functional damage.

If the user does not specify a mode, default to “improve and verify.” If the user names no document, the README is the target and companion documents enter only through the proposal checkpoint in step 3. Unless explicitly requested, do not turn any document into a complete documentation website.

Treat translated variants as one document: update every variant you can write accurately and report any divergence. For new variants use BCP 47 names (README.zh-TW.md, CONTRIBUTING.zh-TW.md) with English in the base file; preserve an established repository naming scheme.

Invariants

  1. Evidence first: gather facts from the repository before writing. Never invent features, commands, versions, environment variables, deployment methods, performance numbers, badges, screenshots, license details, contribution rules, security contacts, or release history.
  2. Reader-led: order information around the reader's decisions, not the author's implementation order. The top of the README must independently explain the project's purpose and smallest useful path; the top of each companion document must state its one topic and who it is for.
  3. Cognitive funnel: move from broad to specific: one-line purpose → minimal runnable example → installation → configuration and limitations → API or architecture details → contribution, license, and acknowledgements. Once a stage outgrows the README, it moves to a companion document and the README keeps a summary plus a link.
  4. Runnable: commands must trace to repository files, scripts, CLI help, or tests. Run examples that need no network, credentials, paid services, dependency installation, or data changes. Otherwise 🔴 CHECKPOINT for authorization; absent approval means unrun, never passed.
  5. Single source of truth: one fact lives in one file. The README does not restate a companion document, a companion document does not restate the README's quick start, and neither copies information that readers can directly inspect in the environment and that is likely to drift. Use prose for background, rationale, limitations, and workflows that the files do not reveal.
  6. Right-sized: candidate sections and candidate companion documents are options, not a completeness score. Keep small projects to a README; add companion documents only when the evidence in companion-documents justifies each one.
  7. Propose, then create: a companion document the user did not name is created only after the user approves it at the step 3 checkpoint. A document the user named is handled directly.
  8. Honest gaps: 🔴 CHECKPOINT and ask before choosing a license, contribution channel, security contact, code-of-conduct standard, or roadmap. If nobody can answer, omit the section or document and report the question; never ship TODO:. State adoption-relevant absences (for example, no LICENSE) as facts, not placeholders. Omit rather than invent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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. yesterday First seen · 163 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A 4e1eaafc8c68

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excellent-project-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository mushroomTW/MushroomTW-Skills (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 3,504 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-12.

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