Documenting Code is a well-rated Claude Code skill (quality score 85/100) in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/documenting-code/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when user says "update docs", "document", "add documentation", "update readme", "write docs", or wants to improve documentation.
The Documenting Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/documenting-code curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/documenting-code/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/documenting-code/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/documenting-code/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/documenting-code/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\documenting-code\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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