documentation-standards

documentation-standards is a skill for Claude Code from softspark/ai-toolkit. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,773 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of rules for documents in a knowledge base, including required YAML metadata and allowed categories. A knowledge base is a collection of organized reference and how-to documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating and checking front matter, categorizing knowledge-base pages, and enforcing documentation conventions in continuous integration.
Why use it?
It prevents incomplete or inconsistently organized documents from failing validation or becoming difficult to search.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the ai-toolkit plugin — 115 skills, 44 agents, 14 hooks shipped together

Good fit Creating and checking front matter, categorizing knowledge-base pages, and enforcing documentation conventions in continuous integration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/softspark/ai-toolkit/documentation-standards
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 softspark/ai-toolkit --skill documentation-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 115 skills, 44 agents, 14 hooks.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,773 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00060 $0.01773
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00886
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00177

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5b57d0ca5ce7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documentation-standards 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 8d 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.

app/skills/documentation-standards/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documentation Standards

Auto-loaded knowledge skill enforcing KB document conventions across all agents and skills.

Frontmatter Specification (MANDATORY)

Every document in kb/ MUST start with YAML frontmatter:

---
title: "Document Title"                    # REQUIRED — English, descriptive
category: reference                        # REQUIRED — one of the 10 valid categories
service: ai-toolkit                        # REQUIRED — service identifier
tags: [tag1, tag2, tag3]                   # REQUIRED — minimum 1, recommended 3+
last_updated: "YYYY-MM-DD"                 # REQUIRED — ISO format
created: "YYYY-MM-DD"                      # REQUIRED — creation date
description: "One-line summary."           # REQUIRED — for search indexing
version: "1.0.0"                           # optional — semver
---

All 7 fields above are REQUIRED. Documents without valid frontmatter fail scripts/validate.py and block CI.

section: a legacy alias, not a second field

Older documents and the kb-migration SOP write section: where this specification writes category:. Both names are read in the wild, so a document may carry both — and when it does they must hold the same value. A document filed as category: reference and section: howto is indexed twice, found once, and the reader gets whichever the index ranked higher.

New documents should write category:. section: is accepted, never required, and never authoritative on its own.

Category Taxonomy

Category Directory Purpose Examples
reference kb/reference/ Technical specifications, catalogs, architecture notes, API docs agents-catalog.md, architecture-overview.md
howto kb/howto/ Step-by-step task guides use-corrective-rag.md, configure-mcp-server.md
procedures kb/procedures/ SOPs a person follows: release, migration, review sop-maintenance.md, sop-release.md
troubleshooting kb/troubleshooting/ Problem resolution, debugging guides database-connection-issues.md
best-practices kb/best-practices/ Guidelines, recommendations, standards security-checklist.md
decisions kb/decisions/ Architecture decision records and design rationale adr-004-kb-migration.md
runbooks kb/runbooks/ Procedures run against a live system, usually under pressure deployment.md, incident-response.md
planning kb/planning/ Roadmaps, PRDs, work not yet done q3-roadmap.md
business kb/business/ Domain model, requirements, use cases, user stories domain-model.md, user-stories.md
templates kb/templates/ Reusable document templates adr-template.md, sop-template.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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. 8d ago First seen · 223 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 5b57d0ca5ce7

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documentation-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository softspark/ai-toolkit (172 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,773 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 2026-09-03.

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