Documentation Strategy
Skill Verified ActiveDesign and run a documentation system for a team or product. Use this skill when planning what to document, choosing a documentation tool, organizing existing docs, fixing stale documentation, designing a maintenance cadence, or scoping technical writing work. Triggers on documentation, docs, tech writing, knowledge base, wiki, runbook, README, internal docs, doc audit, doc maintenance, stale docs, where do we document. Also triggers when the team is repeatedly answering the same questions or when onboarding takes too long.
To help teams establish and run effective documentation systems by providing clear frameworks for what to document, where, by whom, and how to keep it fresh.
Features
- Design and run documentation systems
- Plan documentation strategy
- Choose documentation tools
- Organize existing documentation
- Fix stale documentation
- Design maintenance cadences
Use Cases
- Setting up documentation for a new team or product
- Auditing existing documentation
- Fixing stale or scattered docs
- Choosing a documentation tool or platform
- Defining what gets documented and what doesn't
Non-Goals
- Writing the actual content of a single document
- Customer-facing knowledge base copy
- Code comments and inline documentation
- One-off blog posts or articles
Installation
npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skillsRuns the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.
Quality Score
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