Documentation Standards

Documentation Standards is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from niels-emmer/myace. It costs 22 tokens per session (668 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of writing rules for technical documentation, including its structure, tone, and formatting.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for writing or reviewing technical documentation and deciding how to organize information, headings, examples, and advanced details.
Why use it?
It helps documentation stay accurate, easy to scan, and consistent across READMEs, docs pages, and agent instruction files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit It is for writing or reviewing technical documentation and deciding how to organize information, headings, examples, and advanced details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/niels-emmer/myace/doc-standards
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 niels-emmer/myace --skill doc-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/niels-emmer/myace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 668 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 $0.00022 $0.00668
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00334
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00067

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8a084b7278d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Documentation Standards 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 10d 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.

collections/additional/editor/skills/doc-standards/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Give any doc you write or edit a consistent shape so readers (and agents) can scan it, trust it, and find what they need without re-deriving your conventions each time. Use this whenever you're writing a README section, a docs/ page, an agent-facing instruction file (AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md-style), or reviewing someone else's doc for structural issues.

When to use it

  • Writing a new doc section or page from scratch.
  • Reviewing an existing doc for structure, not just factual accuracy (pair with the drift-check skill for accuracy).
  • Deciding whether new content belongs in an existing doc or needs its own page.

Conventions

Structure

  • Lead with what the thing is and why it exists before diving into how to use it. A reader deciding whether to keep reading needs that in the first sentence or two.
  • Use headings that describe content, not narrate process ("Configuration" not "How We Set This Up"). Keep heading depth shallow — two or three levels is almost always enough.
  • Put the most commonly needed information first (quickstart, common commands) and push edge cases, advanced options, and rationale further down or into a linked doc.

Examples

  • Every non-trivial command or API shown should be a working, copy-pasteable example, not pseudocode. If you can't verify it runs, say so explicitly rather than presenting it as tested.
  • Show the expected output or result when it's not obvious, especially for CLI commands and API calls — readers verify they did it right by comparing output, not by re-reading the instructions.

Language

  • Avoid unexplained jargon and internal shorthand. If a term is project-specific (a service name, an internal abbreviation), define it on first use or link to where it's defined.
  • Avoid references that assume shared context the reader doesn't have — no "as discussed," "the fix from before," or ticket/PR numbers without enough surrounding explanation to be useful standalone.
  • Prefer active voice and direct imperatives for instructions ("Run X," not "X should be run").

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 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. 10d ago First seen · 43 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 8a084b7278d2

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Documentation Standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository niels-emmer/myace (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 668 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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