update-docs

A documentation-maintenance guide for keeping a project’s AI context files and CLAUDE.md aligned with its current code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after features, refactors, or structural changes to update project specifications, structure, progress, deployment details, and agent instructions.
Why use it?
It reduces stale project information and removes historical or unnecessary documentation that an agent can infer elsewhere.

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/peterkrueck/claude-code-development-kit/update-docs
Any agent
npx skills add peterkrueck/Claude-Code-Development-Kit --skill update-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/peterkrueck/Claude-Code-Development-Kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,398 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 $0.00070 $0.02398
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01199
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00480
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00240

Measured 2d ago against content hash eee0232db7c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-docs 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 2d 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/update-docs/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update Docs — Documentation Maintenance

Keep project documentation synchronized with the current state of the code. Updates the core docs/ai-context/ files and CLAUDE.md as needed.

Core Documentation Principle

Compress aggressively — the default for every line is DELETE. A line earns its place only when it encodes something an AI agent cannot derive from the code, git log, or spec.md. Every run prunes as much as it adds.

Document current "is" state only — never reference legacy implementations or what changed.

  • Write as if the documentation is being read for the first time
  • No "previously", "was changed from", "used to be", or "improved" language
  • No migration notes or upgrade paths within the docs themselves
  • If something was removed, remove it from docs — don't leave a "removed X" note
  • No build-state qualifiers ("recently added", "just landed", "new in this release") — dead the moment work ships; git log carries that

Audience: AI agents, not humans. These docs exist so a future session can prime fast. No marketing, no narrative arc, no "we did X then Y," no friendly hedging. Prefer tables, bold inline labels, and pseudocode over prose. Put code identifiers in backticks. Pair every non-obvious rule with a one-phrase reason (security, past incident, vendor quirk).

When to Skip

The bar is architecture, not activity. A run only earns doc changes when a change lands new architecture — a data flow, contract, invariant, or design decision a future session could not reconstruct from code alone. Fold that into spec.md in present tense. That is the ONLY thing that earns new lines — never a record that the work happened (git carries that), never a "we fixed/added X" note. If "document this change" reduces to "note that we did it," write nothing.

Do NOT run this skill for:

  • Bug fixes that don't change architecture or capabilities
  • Small refactors (rename, extract method) that don't change behavior
  • UI tweaks or styling changes
  • Single file additions within existing patterns
  • Performance optimizations without architectural impact
  • Comment or formatting changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. 2d ago First seen · 162 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A eee0232db7c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository peterkrueck/Claude-Code-Development-Kit (1,380 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,398 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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