dev-guide-generator

A tutorial-writing workflow that turns a technical topic into a step-by-step guide, from setup and basic use through troubleshooting and advanced topics.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating setup guides, quickstarts, beginner tutorials, troubleshooting sections, and final command or concept cheatsheets.
Why use it?
It helps beginners follow a clear learning path instead of piecing together instructions from scattered sources.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,990 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00059 $0.02990
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01495
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00598
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00299

Measured yesterday against content hash ba62723b31c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

dev-guide-generator scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y xxx
skills/dev-guide-generator/SKILL.md · 379 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 379 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dev Guide Generator

One topic → complete technical tutorial: Through a structured SOP workflow, transform a technical topic into a comprehensive tutorial covering prerequisites, environment setup, core steps, common error troubleshooting, and advanced topics — all accompanied by a cheatsheet.

Quick Start

The user simply provides a technical topic or operational goal, and the Agent automatically generates a complete tutorial following this workflow:

User: Help me write a Docker beginner's tutorial
Agent: [Outputs complete technical tutorial + Cheatsheet following the SOP workflow]

SOP Workflow

Phase 1: Topic Scoping & Audience Analysis

Goal: Define the tutorial's technical subject, target audience, and scope boundaries.

Steps:

  1. Parse the topic: Identify the core technology, operational goals, and expected deliverables from the user's input
  2. Ask clarifying questions (up to 4 key questions):
    • What is the target audience's technical level? (Complete beginner / Some experience / Experienced developer)
    • What operating system will the reader be using? (macOS / Windows / Linux / Any)
    • What should the reader be able to do after completing the tutorial? (Specific deliverable)
    • Are there any version or tech stack constraints?
  3. If the user asks to skip clarification, proceed with these default assumptions:
    • Audience: Has basic programming experience but is unfamiliar with the topic technology
    • Environment: Cover both macOS and Linux (note Windows differences where necessary)
    • Goal: Be able to independently complete a minimal working example

Output: Tutorial metadata summary (topic, audience, objective, scope — no more than 150 words)


Phase 2: Prerequisites

Goal: List all knowledge and tools the reader needs before starting this tutorial, ensuring there are no knowledge gaps.

Steps:

  1. Dependency analysis:
    • List all technical concepts involved in this tutorial
    • For each concept, determine whether it should be "explained within the tutorial" or "assumed as prior knowledge"
    • Decision rule: If explaining it would digress more than 200 words from the main topic, classify it as a prerequisite

Read the full file on GitHub · 379 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 379 lines · 59 tokens per session scan B ba62723b31c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dev-guide-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/claude-code-guide (4,596 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,990 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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