docs-write

A writing guide for creating or editing documentation in Markdown and MDX. It sets rules for clear, conversational, user-focused explanations and formatting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft, edit, review, and format product documentation. It helps structure instructions, choose suitable language for the audience, write useful headings and links, and run Prettier.
Why use it?
It helps keep documentation easy to follow and focused on the reader’s needs. It also reduces unclear wording, unnecessary detail, and examples that do not work.

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/tmcfarlane/oh-my-cursor/docs-write
Any agent
npx skills add tmcfarlane/oh-my-cursor --skill docs-write
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmcfarlane/oh-my-cursor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 663 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00033 $0.00663
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00066

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2dae12d440bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-write 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to docs-write — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/docs-write/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documentation Writing Skill

@./../_shared/metabase-style-guide.md

When writing documentation

Start here

  1. Who is this for? Match complexity to audience. Don't oversimplify hard things or overcomplicate simple ones.
  2. What do they need? Get them to the answer fast. Nobody wants to be in docs longer than necessary.
  3. What did you struggle with? Those common questions you had when learning? Answer them (without literally including the question).

Writing process

Draft:

  • Write out the steps/explanation as you'd tell a colleague
  • Lead with what to do, then explain why
  • Use headings that state your point: "Set SAML before adding users" not "SAML configuration timing"

Edit:

  • Read aloud. Does it sound like you talking? If it's too formal, simplify.
  • Cut anything that doesn't directly help the reader
  • Check each paragraph has one clear purpose
  • Verify examples actually work (don't give examples that error)

Polish:

  • Make links descriptive (never "here")
  • Backticks only for code/variables, bold for UI elements
  • American spelling, serial commas
  • Keep images minimal and scoped tight

Format:

  • Run prettier on the file after making edits: bun run prettier --write <file-path>
  • This ensures consistent formatting across all documentation

Common patterns

Instructions:

Run:
\`\`\`
command-to-run
\`\`\`

Then:
\`\`\`
next-command
\`\`\`

This ensures you're getting the latest changes.

Not: "(remember to run X before Y...)" buried in a paragraph.

Headings:

  • "Use environment variables for configuration" ✅
  • "Environment variables" ❌ (too vague)
  • "How to use environment variables for configuration" ❌ (too wordy)

Links:

Watch out for

  • Describing tasks as "easy" (you don't know the reader's context)
  • Using "we" when talking about Metabase features (use "Metabase" or "it")
  • Formal language: "utilize", "reference", "offerings"
  • Too peppy: multiple exclamation points
  • Burying the action in explanation
  • Code examples that don't work
  • Numbers that will become outdated

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 2d ago First seen · 97 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 2dae12d440bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docs-write is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmcfarlane/oh-my-cursor (108 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 663 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to docs-write, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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