docs-rewrite

docs-rewrite is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nexus-substrate/nexus-agents. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,871 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for improving an existing technical document through review, research, rewriting, and validation. It is intended for files such as READMEs, architecture records, and other engineering documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when asked to rewrite or improve technical documentation in place, including planning the edits and validating the revised file.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to find unclear claims, add reliable support, restructure the document, and check the result before finishing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the nexus-agents plugin — 33 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook 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/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/docs-rewrite
Any agent
npx skills add nexus-substrate/nexus-agents --skill docs-rewrite
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install nexus-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for docs-rewrite

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/docs-rewrite"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/docs-rewrite.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,871 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00088 $0.01871
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00936
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00187

Measured 5d ago against content hash 03d3e4e90dd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-rewrite 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 5d 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/docs-rewrite/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Docs Rewrite Skill

When to apply

Use when actively improving an existing technical doc — RFC, ADR, README, CLAUDE.md, architecture doc, blog-style technical post. The workflow modifies the file in place; it's not a read-only audit. For audit-only, use docs-review directly.

Trigger keywords: rewrite docs · improve this doc · optimize doc · docs rewrite · refresh doc · improve docs.

Workflow (Audit → Research → Rewrite → Validate)

Phase 1 — Audit (read-only)

Call docs-review against the target file. Capture:

  • The baseline score (e.g., 71/100)
  • The top 10 issues by severity
  • Specific problem locations (file:line)

Do not edit yet. Present the audit summary to the operator.

Phase 2 — Plan-mode gate (mandatory)

Before any file edits, present a section-by-section rewrite plan:

# Rewrite plan: <file>

Baseline: 71 / 100

§ Introduction (lines 1-25)
  - Issue: thesis is hedged (3 questions in first paragraph)
  - Plan: hoist the central claim to the first sentence; convert
    questions to declarative statements

§ Section 2 (lines 30-89)
  - Issue: 4 unsourced assertions (per blog-factcheck)
  - Plan: find Tier 1-3 sources for each, or remove

§ Section 3 (lines 95-150)
  - Issue: paragraphs > 150 words (lines 102, 134)
  - Plan: split each into 2-3 paragraphs of 40-80 words

§ Conclusion (lines 200-220)
  - Issue: doesn't restate the thesis
  - Plan: add a 60-word citation capsule that names what was
    demonstrated and what remains open

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 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. 5d ago First seen · 196 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 03d3e4e90dd1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docs-rewrite is a skill published in the GitHub repository nexus-substrate/nexus-agents (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,871 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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