prp-technical-writing

prp-technical-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wirasm/prp. It costs 75 tokens per session (693 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for writing or editing developer documentation such as READMEs, tutorials, how-to guides, reference pages, and technical explanations. It emphasizes using the project's real terms and details and avoiding invented behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or revise substantial technical documentation, using actual commands, paths, symbols, and product terms from the project. It is not intended for ordinary product interface copy, commit messages, or pull-request descriptions unless explicitly requested.
Why use it?
It helps produce documentation that developers can follow without misreading it. It also prompts the writer to identify the intended reader, the needed action, and the authoritative sources before drafting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

PRP is a collection of prompts and workflows for AI-assisted software development with Claude Code. Its Product Requirement Prompts combine product requirements, selected codebase context, and an execution runbook so a coding agent can implement a vertical slice of software. The catalogue entries are the project’s own skills, agents, instructions, hook, and plugin workflows.

Wirasm/prp · 2,242 stars · on GitHub

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/wirasm/prp/prp-technical-writing
Any agent
npx skills add Wirasm/prp --skill prp-technical-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wirasm/prp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 prp-technical-writing

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wirasm/prp/prp-technical-writing.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/wirasm/prp/prp-technical-writing)
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wirasm/prp/prp-technical-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wirasm/prp/prp-technical-writing.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 693 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 5.1 $0.00075 $0.00693
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00347
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00069

Measured 6d ago against content hash 27b1625bc120, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prp-technical-writing 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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/prp-technical-writing/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS (and $1, $2, ...) refer to the arguments given when this skill was invoked. Take them from the user's request; if absent, infer them from the conversation.

Write technical documentation

Write or edit substantial developer documentation for the intended reader and task.

Input: $ARGUMENTS

Scope

Treat requests to review, critique, or answer a question as read-only. Edit files only when the operator asks for a change.

Leave product UI copy to the product's copy rules. Leave ordinary commit messages and pull request descriptions to $prp-commit and $prp-pr unless the operator explicitly invokes this skill for an editorial pass.

1. Establish the source of truth

Read the repository guidance, requested draft, relevant source, and existing documentation before writing. Identify the reader, the action or understanding they need, and the authoritative sources for the document's claims.

Use the repository's real symbols, paths, flags, commands, and product terms. Do not invent behavior, results, measurements, or terminology to make the prose sound complete.

2. Choose the document mode

Before drafting, read references/document-modes.md. Choose the dominant mode for the unit the operator asked to write: the whole document, or one focused section within a mixed document. Split and link when a competing mode becomes substantial; do not split a useful example or small reference table merely for structural purity.

3. Write for the first read

Before writing or editing, read references/sentence-style.md. Use direct, concrete language and a natural rhythm. Preserve precise domain terms, but remove filler, invented metaphors, vague claims, and formulaic AI phrasing.

Organize the document around the reader's task or question. Keep background only when it changes what the reader understands or does.

4. Prove the document

Check every named symbol, path, flag, link, count, command, and expected result against the real source. Run examples and commands when doing so is safe and relevant. Otherwise state what remains unverified instead of presenting it as fact.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 6d ago First seen · 74 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 27b1625bc120

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prp-technical-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wirasm/prp (2,242 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 693 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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