docs-governance

Rules for organizing and maintaining repository documentation, including reference pages, plans, audits, and research notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, moving, shortening, or deleting files in documentation folders and other documentation surfaces.
Why use it?
It prevents duplicate or misplaced documentation and keeps links and durable project rules intact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/stainless-code/codemap/docs-governance
Any agent
npx skills add stainless-code/codemap --skill docs-governance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stainless-code/codemap

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 235 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,012 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 $0.00235 $0.01012
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.00506
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00101

Measured yesterday against content hash 210bd4c09ee5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-governance 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/skills/docs-governance/SKILL.md · 31 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 31 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Docs governance

Repo-wide docs framework for codemap. Every doc in this repo lives in one of two surface tiers (codemap is small enough that the per-feature and per-shared-component tiers used in larger codebases don't apply here — yet). Full blueprint: LIFECYCLE.md.

The repo-root docs/README.md is the single canonical surface for the cited Rules — every other doc points at it; never restate the Rules. Consumer-surface policy: .agents/rules/consumer-surfaces.md (Rule 10 sub-bullet).

Quick rules

  1. Five lifecycle types — Reference (architecture.md, glossary.md, agents.md, …), Roadmap (roadmap.md), Plan (plans/<feature-name>.md), Audit (audit.md or audits/<topic>.md), Research (research/<tool-name>.md or research/<topic>-YYYY-MM.md). New content folds into one of these; no new top-level types.
  2. Existence test — a doc earns its place if source cites it, it carries durable policy unavailable elsewhere, it tracks open work, or inbound cites require a slim stub. Otherwise fold + delete.
  3. Plans are deleted + lifted when work ships — durable bits move to architecture.md / glossary.md / roadmap.md / a rule or skill; the plan file dies. No "slim & keep in plans/" state.
  4. .gitkeep in each potentially-empty lifecycle folder (plans/, research/, and audits/ when it exists) so it stays discoverable when empty.
  5. Anti-bloat — don't add a rule until there's content that needs it. Same for ownership-table rows in docs/README.md.
  6. Repo-level vs in-source — codemap-wide tool evaluations + adoption (oxlint, future plugins) live in .agents/rules/ + .agents/skills/, not as permanent docs/research/ files. Per-tool tracker notes are an anti-pattern — positioning lives in docs/why-codemap.md.
  7. Cross-reference preservation — grep before slim; preserve cited rule numbers and section anchors. See LIFECYCLE.md § 7.
  8. Provenancedocs/README.md Rules 1–10 are cited from across docs/ and .agents/. Don't renumber without a coordinated re-grep + edit pass.

Read the full file on GitHub · 31 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. yesterday First seen · 31 lines · 235 tokens per session scan A 210bd4c09ee5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docs-governance is a skill published in the GitHub repository stainless-code/codemap (8 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 235 tokens to every session and 1,012 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.

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