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Docs Writing

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: general-misc  ·  Last updated:
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Writes and audits technical documentation using Diataxis, Stripe-style clarity, and the Eight Rules. 52 rules across 9 categories covering voice, structure, clarity, code examples, formatting, navigation, scanability, content hygiene, and review. Use when writing docs, creating READMEs, documenting APIs, writing tutorials, building a docs site, auditing documentation quality, or asking "review my docs", "improve this documentation", or "write docs for this".

From the source SKILL.md

52 rules across 9 categories for documentation quality. Focuses on concrete issues with concrete fixes.

What this skill does

Docs Writing is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/docs-writing/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when writing docs, creating READMEs, documenting APIs, writing tutorials, building a docs site, auditing documentation quality, or asking "review my docs", "improve this documentation", or "write docs for this".

Who uses this skill

The Docs Writing Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/docs-writing
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/docs-writing/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/docs-writing/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/docs-writing/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/docs-writing/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\docs-writing\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

Pro

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Attribution & license

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