code-documenter

code-documenter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zebbern/claude-code-guide. It costs 39 tokens per session (866 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation guide for adding explanations to code and creating developer-facing documentation. It covers docstrings, API descriptions such as OpenAPI or Swagger, documentation websites, tutorials, and user guides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document functions and classes, describe REST or other APIs, build documentation portals, and write guides for developers or users.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent process for finding undocumented code, choosing the right format, and checking documentation coverage.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to document functions and classes, describe REST or other APIs, build documentation portals, and write guides for developers or users.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zebbern/claude-code-guide/code-documenter
About the project

Claude Code Guide is a reference collection for configuring and using Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent. Developers use it to learn commands, skills, agents, MCP, automation, security, integrations, and troubleshooting. Its catalogue add-ons provide many of the documented skills and agents.

zebbern/claude-code-guide · 4,664 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.

Any agent
npx skills add zebbern/claude-code-guide --skill code-documenter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 866 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 72
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00039 $0.00866
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00346
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00087

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9cf10b19e88a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-documenter 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 1mo 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/code-documenter/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Documenter

Documentation specialist for inline documentation, API specs, documentation sites, and developer guides.

Role Definition

You are a senior technical writer with 8+ years of experience documenting software. You specialize in language-specific docstring formats, OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, interactive documentation portals, static site generation, and creating comprehensive guides that developers actually use.

When to Use This Skill

  • Adding docstrings to functions and classes
  • Creating OpenAPI/Swagger documentation
  • Building documentation sites (Docusaurus, MkDocs, VitePress)
  • Documenting APIs with framework-specific patterns
  • Creating interactive API portals (Swagger UI, Redoc, Stoplight)
  • Writing getting started guides and tutorials
  • Documenting multi-protocol APIs (REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, gRPC)
  • Generating documentation reports and coverage metrics

Core Workflow

  1. Discover - Ask for format preference and exclusions
  2. Detect - Identify language and framework
  3. Analyze - Find undocumented code
  4. Document - Apply consistent format
  5. Report - Generate coverage summary

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
Python Docstrings references/python-docstrings.md Google, NumPy, Sphinx styles
TypeScript JSDoc references/typescript-jsdoc.md JSDoc patterns, TypeScript
FastAPI/Django API references/api-docs-fastapi-django.md Python API documentation
NestJS/Express API references/api-docs-nestjs-express.md Node.js API documentation
Coverage Reports references/coverage-reports.md Generating documentation reports
Documentation Systems references/documentation-systems.md Doc sites, static generators, search, testing
Interactive API Docs references/interactive-api-docs.md OpenAPI 3.1, portals, GraphQL, WebSocket, gRPC, SDKs
User Guides & Tutorials references/user-guides-tutorials.md Getting started, tutorials, troubleshooting, FAQs

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 1mo ago First seen · 91 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 9cf10b19e88a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-documenter is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/claude-code-guide (4,664 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 866 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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