documentation-standards

documentation-standards is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zircote-plugins/documentation-review. It costs 207 tokens per session (1,999 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A set of rules for writing, reviewing, and improving technical documentation, including Markdown, structure, code examples, links, accessibility, and documentation tools for different programming languages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review developer documentation, organize headings and code blocks, check links and accessibility, and improve docs made with tools such as Sphinx, Javadoc, or rustdoc.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unclear wording, missing prerequisites, broken examples, outdated details, and inconsistent terms that make documentation difficult to use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the documentation-review plugin — 4 skills, 6 commands, 2 agents 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/zircote-plugins/documentation-review/documentation-standards
Any agent
npx skills add zircote-plugins/documentation-review --skill documentation-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote-plugins/documentation-review

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install documentation-review, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 6 commands, 2 agents.

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 documentation-standards

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zircote-plugins/documentation-review/documentation-standards.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zircote-plugins/documentation-review/documentation-standards)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zircote-plugins/documentation-review/documentation-standards"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zircote-plugins/documentation-review/documentation-standards.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 207 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,999 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 $0.00207 $0.01999
Opus 5 $0.00103 $0.01000
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00200

Measured 3d ago against content hash 541896f21e2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

documentation-standards 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 3d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

2. Doc toolchain build must pass clean without warnings or errors
skills/documentation-standards/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documentation Standards

Standards and patterns for creating, reviewing, and improving technical documentation. Good documentation reduces support burden, accelerates onboarding, and builds user trust — these standards exist to make that happen consistently.

Core Quality Principles

Documentation fails readers in predictable ways: unclear language forces re-reading, missing context creates dead ends, stale examples break trust, and inconsistent terminology confuses. These four principles address the root causes.

Clarity

  • Write for the reader's level of expertise
  • Define technical terms on first use
  • Use active voice and direct language — "Configure the server" not "The server should be configured"
  • Avoid jargon unless the audience expects it

Completeness

  • Cover all essential topics for the document's purpose
  • Include prerequisites and requirements upfront
  • Provide working examples for technical concepts
  • Document edge cases, limitations, and known issues

Accuracy

  • Verify all technical details against current implementation
  • Test code examples before including them — broken examples erode trust faster than missing docs
  • Update documentation when code changes
  • Remove or clearly mark deprecated content

Consistency

  • Follow established style guides (project or industry standard)
  • Use consistent terminology throughout — same concept, same name everywhere
  • Maintain uniform formatting and structure
  • Apply consistent code example styles

Document Structure

Standard Sections

README files:

  1. Title and brief description
  2. Features/highlights
  3. Installation/setup
  4. Quick start/usage
  5. Configuration options
  6. API reference (or link)
  7. Contributing guidelines
  8. License

Technical guides:

  1. Overview/introduction
  2. Prerequisites
  3. Step-by-step instructions
  4. Examples
  5. Troubleshooting
  6. Related resources

API documentation:

  1. Endpoint/function description
  2. Parameters (required/optional)
  3. Request/response formats
  4. Code examples
  5. Error responses
  6. Rate limits/constraints

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 3d ago First seen · 267 lines · 207 tokens per session scan B 541896f21e2f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

documentation-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository zircote-plugins/documentation-review (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 207 tokens to every session and 1,999 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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