update-docs

update-docs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers. It costs 44 tokens per session (259 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A documentation workflow that keeps selected Markdown files directly under docs/ aligned with the code and configuration. Markdown is a plain-text format commonly used for project documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Identify affected root documentation files, check the documentation contract and current source of truth, and make focused updates to docs/*.md.
Why use it?
It helps prevent architecture, configuration, and task documents from becoming inaccurate after project changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the herdrpowers plugin — 16 skills, 7 commands 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/transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers/update-docs
Any agent
npx skills add transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers --skill update-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install herdrpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 7 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for update-docs

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 259 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 $0.00044 $0.00259
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00026

Measured 4d ago against content hash 43244c1a3cfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-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 4d 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/update-docs/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Update Docs

Overview

Keep root-level Markdown docs under docs/ aligned with the current codebase and config.

Use ROOT_DOCS.md in this directory as the contract for what each root doc should contain.

Scope

  • Edit only files matching docs/*.md
  • Do not edit files inside docs/*/
  • Leave generated or output directories alone, including planning directories, generated content directories, and other paths explicitly marked as outputs by the initialized repository.

Workflow

  1. Identify which root docs are affected by the change.
  2. Check ROOT_DOCS.md to confirm each affected doc's role and boundaries.
  3. Check the current source of truth in code, config, prompts, schemas, or git history.
  4. Update only the sections that changed.
  5. Keep terminology, tone, and structure consistent with the existing file.
  6. Keep diffs minimal. Prefer surgical edits over rewrites.
  7. If a doc conflicts with the source of truth, fix the doc.
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. 4d ago First seen · 29 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 43244c1a3cfa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers (11 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 259 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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