docs-drift-guard

docs-drift-guard is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from onsager-ai/dev-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for keeping written technical documentation accurate as the code changes. It covers documents such as READMEs, architecture guides, decision records, and runbooks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps decide which facts should be generated from code, tested through runnable examples, checked automatically, reviewed when related code changes, or kept as stable prose.
Why use it?
It makes outdated explanations easier to prevent or detect instead of allowing them to quietly mislead developers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit It helps decide which facts should be generated from code, tested through runnable examples, checked automatically, reviewed when related code changes, or kept as stable prose.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/onsager-ai/dev-skills/docs-drift-guard
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 onsager-ai/dev-skills --skill docs-drift-guard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onsager-ai/dev-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 548 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 $0.00042 $0.00548
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00219
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00055

Measured 18d ago against content hash 055577de8194, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-drift-guard 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 18d 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-drift-guard/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documentation drift guard

Scope

This skill owns documentation method. The repo owns protected documents, generated outputs, check entrypoints and review requirements. A working link establishes path integrity, not that the surrounding claim is still true.

Prerequisites

Read AGENTS.md and the relevant doc's source/ownership rules. Identify the facts being described, their code/configuration source and existing tests/generators. Use harness-operations only when tool mapping is needed. Do not introduce a new dependency merely to run this skill.

Procedure

  1. Give each fact one authored home and link other consumers to it. Keep stable architecture intent in prose; derive API, CLI, configuration and mutable inventories from their owning source when possible.
  2. Prefer generated output with freshness checks, then executed examples, then deterministic structural checks, then explicit review of remaining prose. A generated artifact still needs a check against its source; generation alone does not guarantee freshness. Keep model-based semantic review advisory.
  3. Reuse the repo's existing link/path, doctest, snippet or architecture gate. If a new checker is needed, add it through the repo's dependency/CI process with a pinned version and prove it catches a broken reference or stale sample.
  4. For JavaScript repos adopting the maintained docs-drift-check tool, use its locked local binary via the owning package script or npx --no-install docs-drift-check. Do not rely on an unpinned runtime download. External-link checks are a separate opt-in network axis, not an offline requirement.
  5. Match higher checks to the claim: doctests for runnable examples; deterministic transclusion/freshness checks for code snippets; dependency rules for layering; path-triggered owner review for prose that cannot be mechanically derived.
  6. Edit the canonical source and regenerate outputs. Preserve ADR history through the repository's amendment convention. Do not make separate hand-edited copies of generated docs, common prompts or native skill projections.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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. 18d ago Changed · -40 lines · -154 tokens per session 055577de8194
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 90 lines · 196 tokens per session scan A d308a6d76b73

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docs-drift-guard is a skill published in the GitHub repository onsager-ai/dev-skills (7 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 548 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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