technical-writing

technical-writing is a skill for Claude Code from spinningrachel/career-engine. It costs 57 tokens per session (4,585 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for an AI agent that writes, edits, or reviews technical documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for technical writing, documentation edits, documentation reviews, and choosing an appropriate document structure.
Why use it?
It helps keep documentation clear, consistent, and suited to its purpose by requiring the agent to read existing material and follow review rules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the career-engine plugin — 29 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it for technical writing, documentation edits, documentation reviews, and choosing an appropriate document structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/spinningrachel/career-engine/technical-writing
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 spinningrachel/career-engine --skill technical-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spinningrachel/career-engine

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install career-engine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,585 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00057 $0.04585
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.02292
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00917
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00458

Measured 8d ago against content hash ed73d63c46d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-writing scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

response = requests.get(f"{BASE_URL}/users/{user_id}")
skills/technical-writing/SKILL.md · 436 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 436 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Writing — Analysis Procedures

career-data data root (R-37). When producing output for the user's own professional context — portfolio docs, bio text, personal brand copy, or career materials — load ${CAREER_DATA}/references/01-writing-rules.md for voice preferences and attribution rules, and ${CAREER_DATA}/references/03-framework.md → §Voice fingerprint for tone alignment. These files govern personal register; this skill governs document structure, clarity, and engineering style. For general technical documentation, the career-data files are optional. If ${CAREER_DATA} was not provided (standalone invocation), locate the career-data skill yourself, confirm career-data-marker.json, and apply the orchestrator's healthy / damaged / absent outcomes before reading.


Working Approach

These behavioral rules govern every task — writing, editing, reviewing, and advising:

  • Read existing content before suggesting changes. Match established patterns.
  • Push back on ideas when doing so leads to better documentation. State the reason.
  • Start with the smallest reasonable changes. Do not restructure what does not need restructuring.
  • Never add content that serves the wrong audience for the guide being edited.
  • When uncertain about a convention, check 2–3 existing sections of the document for precedent.

Core Principles

  • Second person, active voice, confident delivery. Address the reader as "you." State what the system does and what the reader does. Never use passive voice where active works.
  • Vary sentence length deliberately. Very long sentences for complex relationships with multiple dependent clauses. Long sentences for procedures connecting related steps. Short sentences for emphasis and critical warnings. Never produce monotonous rhythm.
  • 12th-grade reading level. Precision over simplicity; brevity over exhaustiveness.
  • Full sentences with real connectors doing the work. No artificial rhythm from fragmented prose broken into bullets. Reserve bullets for true lists.
  • Trust the reader. State points directly. Remove filler words. Never explain what the reader can infer.
  • No pleasantries. Never: "please", "kindly", "feel free to", "you may want to."
  • No hedging. Never: "may", "might", "could potentially", "it is possible that." State capabilities as facts.
  • No marketing language. Never: "revolutionize", "seamlessly", "leverage", "powerful", "best-in-class", "cutting-edge." State what the system does.
  • Professional, not formal. Write like a capable colleague explaining a system — not a manual author performing expertise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 436 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 · 436 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A ed73d63c46d6

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technical-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository spinningrachel/career-engine (4 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 4,585 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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