do-docs

A documentation workflow for creating, reorganising, or updating a project’s technical documentation. It supports new documentation, refactoring existing documents, and incremental updates after code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for greenfield documentation, restructuring documentation that does not meet the project’s standards, or updating compliant docs after implementation work.
Why use it?
It decides which documentation mode fits the project and checks that the project is initialised before making changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the maverick plugin — 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks 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/thermiteau/maverick/do-docs
Any agent
npx skills add thermiteau/maverick --skill do-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thermiteau/maverick

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install maverick, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,520 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 $0.00032 $0.01520
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00760
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00152

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8eb23f8642d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

do-docs 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 3d 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.

skills/do-docs/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documentation Workflow

Create, restructure, or update technical documentation. Operates in three modes depending on the current state of the project's documentation.

Preflight (mandatory)

Run this first. If it exits non-zero, halt and report the stderr output to the user verbatim. Do not proceed.

uv run maverick preflight do-docs

Skip the preflight when invoked from inside a do-issue-* or do-epic phase — the orchestrator already ran a stricter one this session. Run it only when this skill is invoked standalone.

The check verifies the project is initialised and uv is on PATH.

Task Detection

If $ARGUMENTS specifies a mode (greenfield, refactor, or update), use it. Otherwise auto-detect:

digraph detect {
    "Check docs/ exists" [shape=diamond];
    "Greenfield" [shape=box];
    "Audit compliance" [shape=diamond];
    "Refactor" [shape=box];
    "Update" [shape=box];

    "Check docs/ exists" -> "Greenfield" [label="no docs/"];
    "Check docs/ exists" -> "Audit compliance" [label="docs/ exists"];
    "Audit compliance" -> "Refactor" [label="non-compliant or gaps"];
    "Audit compliance" -> "Update" [label="compliant"];
}
  1. If docs/ does not exist or contains no technical documentation -> Greenfield
  2. If docs/ exists, audit against do-tech-docs standards. If documents are non-compliant or significant gaps exist -> Refactor
  3. If documentation is compliant and the task is scoped to recent changes -> Update

Greenfield Mode

Start from scratch for an undocumented project.

0. Detect Repository Type

Determine whether the project is a mono-repo or single-repo per the do-tech-docs skill (mono-repo indicators: workspaces in package.json, pnpm-workspace.yaml, lerna.json, Cargo.toml with [workspace], go.work, multiple pyproject.toml files, nx.json, rush.json). This controls documentation placement.

1. Explore the Codebase

  • Use Glob, Grep, Read, and subagents to map the project structure
  • Examine dependency files to understand the technology stack
  • Review configuration and infrastructure files for deployment context
  • Read test files to understand expected behaviours and edge cases

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 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. 3d ago First seen · 186 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 8eb23f8642d1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

do-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository thermiteau/maverick (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,520 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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