Architecture Decision Records
Write and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) following best practices for technical decision documentation. Use when documenting significant technical decisions…
Docs & Writing
Seth Hobson42k
25 skills · 8 publishers· updated November 4, 2026
Claude skills for documentation
READMEs, API docs, architecture decision records and runbooks. Documentation skills help Claude explain code the way your team actually reads it.
The best Claude skills for documentation
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Architecture Decision Records
Write and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) following best practices for technical decision documentation. Use when documenting significant technical decisions, reviewing past…
npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill architecture-decision-records - 2
Incident Runbook Templates
Create structured incident response runbooks with step-by-step procedures, escalation paths, and recovery actions. Use this skill when building a service outage runbook for a payment processing…
npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill incident-runbook-templates - 3
Academy Guide
Anthropic 187k
Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude product — it recommends matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy…
npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill academy-guide
All 25 documentation skills
25 skills
Incident Runbook Templates
Create structured incident response runbooks with step-by-step procedures, escalation paths, and recovery actions. Use this skill when building a service outage runbook for a…
Cloud & DevOpsSeth Hobson42k
Academy Guide
Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude product — it recommends matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from…
AI & AgentsAnthropic187k
Doc Coauthoring
Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar…
Docs & WritingAnthropic187k
Make Plan
Create a detailed, phased implementation plan with documentation discovery. Use when asked to plan a feature, task, or multi-step implementation — especially before executing with…
Coding Workflow
claude-mem113k
Avoid AI Writing
Audit and rewrite prose so it stops reading as machine-generated. Use this skill when asked to remove AI-isms, clean up AI writing, edit a draft for AI tells, audit a README…
AI & AgentsSeth Hobson42k
Dbt Transformation Patterns
Master dbt (data build tool) for analytics engineering with model organization, testing, documentation, and incremental strategies. Use when building data transformations…
Data & DatabasesSeth Hobson42k
Employment Contract Templates
Create employment contracts, offer letters, and HR policy documents following legal best practices. Use when drafting employment agreements, creating HR policies, or standardizing…
Coding WorkflowSeth Hobson42k
Hads
Use when writing technical documentation that needs to be readable by both humans and AI models, converting existing docs to HADS format, validating a HADS document, or optimizing…
Docs & WritingSeth Hobson42k
On Call Handoff Patterns
Master on-call shift handoffs with context transfer, escalation procedures, and documentation. Use this skill when transitioning on-call responsibilities between engineers and…
Cloud & DevOpsSeth Hobson42k
Openapi Spec Generation
Generate and maintain OpenAPI 3.1 specifications from code, design-first specs, and validation patterns. Use when creating API documentation, generating SDKs, or ensuring API…
Backend & APIsSeth Hobson42k
Protocol Reverse Engineering
Master network protocol reverse engineering including packet analysis, protocol dissection, and custom protocol documentation. Use when analyzing network traffic, understanding…
Coding WorkflowSeth Hobson42k
Python Code Style
Python code style, linting, formatting, naming conventions, and documentation standards. Use when writing new code, reviewing style, configuring linters, writing docstrings, or…
Backend & APIsSeth Hobson42k
Scan
Scans the codebase to generate project-doc.md and AGENTS.md. Use when bootstrapping a new agent-driven repo, refreshing project documentation after architectural changes, or…
Coding WorkflowSeth Hobson42k
Stride Analysis Patterns
Apply STRIDE methodology to systematically identify threats. Use when analyzing system security, conducting threat modeling sessions, or creating security documentation.
SecuritySeth Hobson42k
Audit Prep Assistant
Prepares codebases for security review using Trail of Bits' checklist. Helps set review goals, runs static analysis tools, increases test coverage, removes dead code, ensures…
Security
Trail of Bits8k
Code Maturity Assessor
Systematic code maturity assessment using Trail of Bits' 9-category framework. Analyzes codebase for arithmetic safety, auditing practices, access controls, complexity…
SecurityTrail of Bits8k
Guidelines Advisor
Smart contract development advisor based on Trail of Bits' best practices. Analyzes codebase to generate documentation/specifications, review architecture, check upgradeability…
SecurityTrail of Bits8k
Open Sourcing
This skill should be used when the user asks to "open source this project", "prepare this repository for public release", "make this repo public", "check open-source readiness"…
SecurityTrail of Bits8k
Spec To Code Compliance
Check code against the documentation that specifies it - which requirements hold, which the code contradicts, which are absent, and what the code does that no document mentions…
SecurityTrail of Bits8k
Cloudflare
Discover and choose Cloudflare products for apps, APIs, AI agents, storage, networking, and security. Use for architecture and product selection, including when the user describes…
Cloud & DevOps
Cloudflare3.3k
Stripe Apps
Build, modify, or review Stripe Apps and extensions using the relevant documentation and reference guides. Use for custom Stripe Dashboard UI, stripe-app.yaml…
Backend & APIs
Stripe2k
Stripe Docs
Use when the user or agent needs to read, search, or look up Stripe documentation or API reference. Prefer this over curl or WebFetch for any docs.stripe.com content. Use to fetch…
Backend & APIsStripe2k
Provider Docs
Create, update, and review Terraform provider documentation for Terraform Registry using HashiCorp-recommended patterns, tfplugindocs templates, and schema descriptions. Use when…
Cloud & DevOps
HashiCorp913
About these documentation skills
This page collects every skill in the directory that covers documentation: 25 from 8 publishers, including official skills from Trail of Bits, Anthropic, Stripe and Remotion. Each one links back to its original GitHub repository, so you always get the author's latest version. They span Backend & APIs, Data & Databases, Cloud & DevOps and Security.
Questions about Claude skills for documentation
What is the best Claude skill for documentation?
Our top pick is Architecture Decision Records by Seth Hobson, from a repository with 42k GitHub stars. Incident Runbook Templates and Academy Guide round out the top three. Skills are ranked by the popularity of their source repository, with hand-picked favorites first, and official skills from Trail of Bits, Anthropic, Stripe and Remotion carry a badge.
How do I install a Claude skill for documentation?
Open a skill's page and run its install command in your project folder, for example npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill architecture-decision-records. You can also download any skill as a ZIP and add it to Claude Code or upload it to the Claude app.
Skills from claude-mem rely on shared scripts and agents, so install them as a Claude Code plugin. Their pages show the two commands.
The install guide walks through every method.
Are Claude skills for documentation free?
Yes. All 25 skills on this page are open source and free to use, and most are MIT licensed. You need a Claude plan that supports skills, or a coding agent that reads SKILL.md files.
Do these skills work in Claude Code and the Claude app?
Yes. A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file, and the same folder works in Claude Code, the Claude desktop and web apps (on paid plans with code execution turned on) and the Claude API. Many also work in other agents that support the Agent Skills format, such as Cursor and OpenAI Codex. Skills that ship scripts need somewhere Claude can run code.
How many Claude skills for documentation are there?
We list 25 from 8 publishers, last updated November 4, 2026. The list refreshes from GitHub as publishers release new skills.
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