documentation-discipline

A set of rules for keeping project documentation as the source of truth for decisions, fixes, architecture changes, and deferred choices. It requires documentation to be checked before work and updated afterward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before and after non-trivial development work, especially when changing system behavior, architecture, or project decisions.
Why use it?
It prevents important decisions and changes from being lost in conversations or code alone, so later work can rely on an accurate record.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the scribe plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

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/mwguerra/plugins/documentation-discipline
Any agent
npx skills add mwguerra/plugins --skill documentation-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mwguerra/plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install scribe, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands, 2 agents.

Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,299 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00099 $0.02299
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01149
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00460
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00230

Measured 3d ago against content hash bfc972eb7cf7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documentation-discipline 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.

scribe/skills/documentation-discipline/SKILL.md · 158 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 3d ago First seen · 158 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A bfc972eb7cf7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

documentation-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository mwguerra/plugins (7 stars, last pushed 10d ago), with no licence file. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 2,299 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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