write-architecture-docs

write-architecture-docs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from prisma/prisma-next. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,294 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of write-architecture-docs, Apache-2.0.

A writing workflow for architecture documentation, which explains how a software system is designed and why its parts work together. It covers subsystem documents, architecture decision records, and reference material.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create, update, or review documents that describe system design for an engineering team.
Why use it?
It helps technical documentation remain useful to both people who need precise details and people who need the background first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps create, update, or review documents that describe system design for an engineering team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/prisma/prisma-next/write-architecture-docs
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add prisma/prisma-next --skill write-architecture-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/prisma/prisma-next

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 1,294 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00055 $0.01294
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00518
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00129

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Security

Grade A, and why

write-architecture-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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to write-architecture-docs — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills-contrib/write-architecture-docs/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Architecture Documentation

Architecture docs in this repo serve two audiences: team members working on the system (need precise reference material) and team members seeking context (need an accessible narrative). The doc must work for both without requiring prior project context.

Before writing

  1. Read at least two sibling docs in the same directory (e.g., other subsystem docs under docs/architecture docs/subsystems/). Calibrate your voice, structure, and level of detail to match them.
  2. Read the ADRs you'll reference. Don't just link to them — understand them well enough to summarize the key idea inline, so the reader doesn't have to follow the link to understand the doc.

Voice and framing

Write about the system, not the project. These docs describe the intended system as far as we know it. They are not project retrospectives, sprint summaries, or PoC reports.

  • State facts: "The execution pipeline generalizes across families" — not "The PoC validated that the execution pipeline generalizes"
  • No transient project references: avoid "workstream", "PoC", "sprint", "milestone", "being validated", "current effort"
  • No product comparisons: don't reference other products or prior versions. Describe what the system is, not what it improves upon.
  • Non-goals are architectural boundaries, not "not yet done" items. No (current) qualifiers.

Write for a developer without prior context. Imagine someone joining the team and reading this doc as their first exposure to this part of the system.

  • Explain why before what. Before introducing a concept like model ownership, explain the problem it solves: "In SQL, related data lives in separate tables and is joined at query time. In MongoDB, the idiomatic pattern is to store related data inside the parent document."
  • Let ideas breathe. Don't compress three concepts into one sentence. If a sentence requires the reader to already understand three things to parse it, break it apart.
  • Use concrete examples — code snippets, JSON fragments, "a developer writing X gets Y under the hood." Abstract descriptions are hard to pin understanding to.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 1mo ago First seen · 73 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 1c2a99e8dd43

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write-architecture-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository prisma/prisma-next (414 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,294 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to write-architecture-docs, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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