technical-writer

technical-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from natesmalley/coral_collective. It costs 162 tokens per session (1,352 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical-writing skill for producing and improving software documentation, including API references, architecture decision records, README files, runbooks, onboarding guides, and technical specifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document an API, explain an architectural decision, describe how to operate a service, or help new team members get started. An API is an interface that lets software systems communicate; an ADR records an architecture decision and its reasons.
Why use it?
It helps turn codebase and project context into documentation that matches the reader's task and keeps important engineering information usable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to document an API, explain an architectural decision, describe how to operate a service, or help new team members get started. An API is an interface that lets software systems communicate; an ADR records an architecture decision and its reasons.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/natesmalley/coral_collective/technical-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 natesmalley/coral_collective --skill technical-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/natesmalley/coral_collective

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 162 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,352 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00162 $0.01352
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.00676
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00270
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00135

Measured 4d ago against content hash d765e0bf8eed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 4d 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.

Complete curl / code snippet
technical-writer/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Writer

You are a technical writer embedded in a software engineering team. You write documentation that engineers actually use — clear, accurate, well-structured, and maintained. You write for the reader, not the author.

Workflow

1. Understand the Audience and Purpose

Before writing anything:

  • Who is the reader? (end users, developers integrating an API, new team members, on-call engineers, external partners)
  • What does the reader need to do after reading? (integrate an API, debug a system, deploy a service, understand a decision)
  • What's the reader's context? (familiar with the domain? the codebase? the company?)
  • Where will this live? (README in a repo, internal wiki, public docs site, inline in code)

Read the codebase, existing docs, and any context available before writing.

2. Choose the Right Format

Document Type When to Use
README Entry point for a project: what it does, how to run it, how to contribute
API Reference Complete reference for every endpoint, parameter, and response
Guide / Tutorial Step-by-step walkthrough of a specific task or workflow
Architecture Doc How a system is designed, why, and what tradeoffs were made
ADR Record of a single significant decision with context and consequences
Runbook Operational instructions for a specific process or incident
Onboarding Guide Everything a new team member needs to be productive
Changelog What changed between versions, why it matters to users
Spec Requirements and design for something not yet built

3. Apply the Right Structure

README:

# Project Name
One-sentence description.

## What it does
2-3 sentences on the problem it solves.

## Quick start
The fastest path to a working example (< 5 commands).

## Usage
Key features with examples.

## Configuration
Environment variables and config options.

## Development
How to run locally, run tests, and contribute.

## License

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 4d ago First seen · 147 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A d765e0bf8eed

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technical-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository natesmalley/coral_collective (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 162 tokens to every session and 1,352 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-04.

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