docs-navigator

docs-navigator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nikzlabs/shipit. It costs 81 tokens per session (963 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to ShipIt’s feature documentation, including where design notes live, how to find them, and how their status and metadata are recorded.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find implementation decisions, check whether a feature is planned or finished, or write a new feature document.
Why use it?
It makes feature history and planned work easier to locate and reduces the risk of writing documentation in the wrong format.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/nikzlabs/shipit/docs-navigator
Any agent
npx skills add nikzlabs/shipit --skill docs-navigator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nikzlabs/shipit

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

agentmods badge for docs-navigator

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikzlabs/shipit/docs-navigator.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikzlabs/shipit/docs-navigator)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikzlabs/shipit/docs-navigator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikzlabs/shipit/docs-navigator.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 963 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 $0.00081 $0.00963
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00481
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00096

Measured 4d ago against content hash d157592db91e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-navigator 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (index.sh), 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.

.claude/skills/docs-navigator/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feature Docs Navigator

ShipIt has feature docs in docs/NNN-feature-name/plan.md. Each describes how a feature was designed and implemented. Most tasks don't need these — the architecture skills cover cross-cutting patterns. Load a feature doc only when you need implementation details for a specific feature.

How to use

  1. Run the index script to get the current list of docs with their status and title:
    bash .claude/skills/docs-navigator/index.sh
    
  2. Find the relevant doc(s) from the output
  3. Read its plan.md for design details
  4. Check checklist.md if it exists — it tracks remaining work

Status key

  • done — implemented and shipped
  • in-progress — actively being worked on
  • planned — designed but not yet started
  • paused — designed but not currently scheduled

Filtering

The index script accepts an optional filter argument to narrow results:

# Show only planned/in-progress docs
bash .claude/skills/docs-navigator/index.sh active

# Show only docs matching a keyword
bash .claude/skills/docs-navigator/index.sh git
bash .claude/skills/docs-navigator/index.sh deploy

Writing docs: folder layout

docs/
  NNN-feature-name/
    requirements.md — What the feature must do, in the human's terms (required for new features)
    plan.md        — How the feature works, key files, patterns
    checklist.md   — Remaining work items or tracking notes
    mockup.html    — Optional UI prototype committed as reference (or mockup.svg / mocks/)

Features are numbered by creation order. Create docs/NNN-new-feature/ for a new one.

docs/NNN-feature/ is this repo's convention, not the docs list's filter. The scan (markdown.tsfindMarkdownFiles) walks the whole workspace and surfaces every .md file — README.md, RELEASING.md, src/server/shipit-docs/*.md, anything nested. The NNN- prefix and the presence of plan.md / checklist.md / an issue: pointer only decide Tracked-vs-Other grouping and newest-first ordering. So treat any markdown you write as user-visible; don't leave scratch notes in .md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 77 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A d157592db91e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docs-navigator is a skill published in the GitHub repository nikzlabs/shipit (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 963 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 2026-08-31.

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