technical-writing

technical-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from riekelt/technical-writer. It costs 93 tokens per session (2,212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

House style and truth rules for writing, restructuring, or revising technical documents such as specifications, READMEs, plans, and reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for technical prose in any language, including specifications, design documents, reference material, plans, and reports.
Why use it?
It helps documents state verified information clearly and makes each claim traceable to its source.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the technical-writer plugin — 11 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents 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/riekelt/technical-writer/technical-writing
Any agent
npx skills add riekelt/technical-writer --skill technical-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/riekelt/technical-writer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install technical-writer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents.

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 technical-writing

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/riekelt/technical-writer/technical-writing.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/riekelt/technical-writer/technical-writing)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/riekelt/technical-writer/technical-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/riekelt/technical-writer/technical-writing.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,212 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 $0.00093 $0.02212
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01106
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00221

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6072822f82c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-writing 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.

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.

plugins/technical-writer/skills/technical-writing/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical writing

Overview

House style for technical documents, composed from conventions used across my repositories. The rules themselves are in English; documents keep their own language: a Dutch document is written and reviewed in Dutch. The structural and truth rules apply in any language; the vocabulary lists in references/style.md are English-specific and other languages carry their own. Core principle: a document states current, verified behavior, conclusion first, with every claim traceable to a source, and every fact living in exactly one place. A thin document beats an overstated one, because the author is the one saying it out loud.

These rules govern documents, not chat replies. Length and section rules apply to running prose, not to reference lists like this file.

When to invoke

Load this skill for any technical prose, then the matching document-type skill on top. These are routing hints; each skill's own body is the authority.

When a repository regularly produces documents, record the invocation in project memory: one line in its CLAUDE.md or the platform's equivalent, telling agents to load this skill for any technical prose there. A skill the project names loads every session; one left to recall loads only when someone thinks of it.

The task is Also load
A proposal, RFC, design doc, spec, or migration plan writing-design-docs
Recording a decision, an ADR, a decision log entry recording-decisions
A changelog entry, release notes, "what shipped" writing-changelogs
A runbook, setup guide, procedure, troubleshooting entry writing-runbooks
A tracker item: epic, story, task, bug report, spike, acceptance criteria writing-issues
A migration or deprecation guide writing-runbooks
A postmortem, incident report, root-cause analysis writing-postmortems
Documenting an existing, under-documented system; regrounding stale docs against code documenting-legacy-codebases
A process, lifecycle, or interaction diagram; drawing business logic diagramming-processes
An API reference: endpoints, message payloads, DTOs, CLI commands, file formats, webhooks documenting-contracts
Reviewing or rewriting someone else's text; the final pass before delivering any document reviewing-technical-prose

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 · 129 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 6072822f82c9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

technical-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository riekelt/technical-writer (15 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 2,212 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.

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