documentation-strategy

documentation-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 105 tokens per session (2,938 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system for deciding what a team should document, where documents belong, who maintains them, and how they stay current.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize internal docs, product documentation, runbooks, READMEs, knowledge bases, onboarding material, and technical-writing work.
Why use it?
It addresses documentation that is missing, scattered, outdated, or unclear about ownership.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills shipped together

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/rampstackco/claude-skills/documentation-strategy
Any agent
npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill documentation-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,938 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 5.1 $0.00105 $0.02938
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01469
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00588
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00294

Measured 5d ago against content hash c9313863695c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documentation-strategy 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 5d 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/documentation-strategy/SKILL.md · 429 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 429 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documentation Strategy

Decide what gets documented, where, by whom, and how it stays fresh. Stack-agnostic. Applies to internal team docs, product docs, runbooks, READMEs, and knowledge bases.


When to use

  • Setting up documentation for a new team or product
  • Auditing existing documentation
  • Fixing stale or scattered docs
  • Choosing a documentation tool or platform
  • Defining what gets documented and what doesn't
  • Establishing maintenance cadence
  • Scoping technical writing work
  • Designing onboarding documentation (use alongside team-onboarding-playbook)

When NOT to use

  • Writing the actual content of a single document (use content-and-copy)
  • Customer-facing knowledge base copy (use content-strategy)
  • Code comments and inline documentation (covered by code-review-web)
  • One-off blog posts or articles (use content-and-copy)

Required inputs

  • The audience (internal, external, customer, dev, exec)
  • Existing docs and their state (where, what shape, last updated)
  • Team size and growth trajectory
  • The kinds of work that produce documentation (engineering, product, ops, support)
  • Tools currently in use

The framework: 4 categories of documentation

Different categories of doc serve different purposes. Conflating them is how docs get bad.

Category 1: Reference

What things are. Looked up when needed.

Examples: API reference, configuration options, glossary, architecture diagrams, contact lists, decision log entries.

Properties:

  • Comprehensive
  • Fact-checked, kept accurate
  • Searchable
  • Stable structure (links don't break)
  • Version-aware where relevant

Category 2: How-to

How to do specific tasks. Procedural.

Examples: "Deploy to staging," "Reset a password," "Onboard a new contractor," "Run the backup restore drill."

Properties:

  • Step-by-step
  • Tested by someone who didn't write it
  • Includes the prerequisites
  • Includes troubleshooting
  • Versioned to the system it documents

Category 3: Explanation

Read the full file on GitHub · 429 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. 5d ago First seen · 429 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A c9313863695c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

documentation-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (817 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 2,938 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.