meta-document

meta-document is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin. It costs 60 tokens per session (3,071 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation skill for recording design-project decisions, completed work, current status, and useful context for future sessions. It keeps this information in organized project records for long-running work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after major design or development phases to document results, record what worked or failed, track dependencies, and preserve next steps.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated investigation and helps teams or agents continue complex projects after a handoff or a break in work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the design-engineer plugin — 35 skills, 11 commands, 10 agents, 6 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/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin/meta-document
Any agent
npx skills add volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin --skill meta-document
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install design-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 11 commands, 10 agents, 6 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,071 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 $0.00060 $0.03071
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01536
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00614
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00307

Measured 4d ago against content hash 512cd1a058ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meta-document 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/meta-document/SKILL.md · 372 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 372 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

meta-document Skill

Purpose: Document solutions, store project status, and maintain living context files that enable long-term complex projects across sessions, chat compaction, and team handoffs.

Overview

After any significant work is completed (a design deliverable, a development phase, a psychology audit), this skill captures what was done, what worked, what did not work, and what comes next. It maintains a structured project status file that AI reads at the start of every task, reducing hallucinations and preventing repeated mistakes.

This is not for pet projects that you start and abandon. This is for actual complex projects planned to run for years, potentially becoming million-dollar products with multiple teams working on them.

Organization: Each documentation entry is a markdown file with validated YAML frontmatter, stored in .design-engineer-plugin/design/dev/[category]/. Live progress (current phase, key decisions, stale dependents) is tracked separately by the compound-documenter agent in its project-local memory at .claude/agent-memory/design-engineer-compound-documenter/ – Anthropic's documented persistence primitive for subagents.


<critical_sequence name="compound-documentation" enforce_order="strict">

6-Step Process

Auto-invoke after:

  • Completion of any pipeline phase (pre-dev, dev, psychology audit)
  • User confirms a solution worked ("that fixed it", "looks good", "approved")
  • End of any complex multi-step task

OR manual: /design-engineer:document command

Document when:

  • A design deliverable was produced or significantly revised
  • A development phase completed
  • A non-obvious solution was found after multiple attempts
  • Decisions were made that future sessions need to know about
  • Context that would be lost to chat compaction

Skip documentation for:

  • Trivial edits (typo fixes, formatting changes)
  • Intermediate work that will be superseded
  • Information already captured in existing deliverables

Read the full file on GitHub · 372 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 · 372 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 512cd1a058ed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

meta-document is a skill published in the GitHub repository volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 3,071 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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