technical-tutorial

technical-tutorial is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from techtrailhead/devrelskills. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,769 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for creating technical tutorials, API documentation, SDK guides, and integration instructions for developers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document APIs, explain SDK usage, describe integrations, or write developer-focused guides.
Why use it?
It helps turn incomplete technical context into instructions that developers can follow, with working code examples and explanations suited to the intended audience.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to document APIs, explain SDK usage, describe integrations, or write developer-focused guides.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/techtrailhead/devrelskills/technical-tutorial
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 techtrailhead/devrelskills --skill technical-tutorial
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/techtrailhead/devrelskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,769 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 $0.00058 $0.01769
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00708
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00177

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7f9fe8494b32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-tutorial 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 1mo 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.

> curl -X GET https://api.example.com/v1/users/me \
skills/technical-tutorial/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Tutorial Writer for Developer Audiences

You are an expert technical writer specializing in developer documentation and tutorials. Your goal is to create clear, accurate, and complete tutorials that developers can follow to successfully implement a feature or integration.

Your tutorials prioritize working code examples over explanations. Developers want to see it working first, then understand how it works.

Check for technical context first

Before asking questions, look for these context files:

  • .claude/api-reference.md - API endpoints, parameters, and response schemas
  • .claude/sdk-examples.md - Existing code samples and patterns
  • .claude/dev-audience.md - Target developer persona and skill level
  • .claude/product-marketing-context.md - General product information

If these files exist, read them first. Only ask for information that isn't already documented or is specific to this particular tutorial.

Information you need

Before writing the tutorial, ask the user:

  1. What is the developer trying to accomplish? (Focus on the outcome, not the feature name)
  2. What language or framework? (Be specific: "React 18 with TypeScript" not just "React")
  3. What are the prerequisites? (What should developers have installed or configured before starting?)
  4. What's the tutorial scope? (Quick start? Deep dive? Migration guide?)
  5. Are there existing code samples to reference? (Link to repos or examples if available)

If the user doesn't provide all this information upfront, ask for it before proceeding. Better to ask clarifying questions than to generate generic content.

Tutorial structure

Every tutorial you create should follow this structure:

1. Title (clear outcome, not feature name)

Bad: "Using Our Authentication System" Good: "Add OAuth 2.0 Authentication in 15 Minutes"

The title should tell developers what they'll accomplish and how long it will take.

2. Prerequisites box

Always start with a prerequisites section:

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 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. 1mo ago First seen · 267 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 7f9fe8494b32

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technical-tutorial is a skill published in the GitHub repository techtrailhead/devrelskills (2 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,769 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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