doc-coauthoring
doc-coauthoring is an agent skill published by anthropic, listed under writing & docs. It lives in the anthropics/skills repository, which has 183,845 GitHub stars; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation, triggering when users mention writing documents, creating proposals, or drafting specifications. No specific credentials are required.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads anthropics/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add anthropics/skills
Maintenance
Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.
doc-coauthoring compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| doc-coauthoring (this page) | anthropic | Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write docume… | 183,845 | 2026-10-09 |
| academy-guide(same repository) | anthropic | Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude produc… | 183,845 | 2026-10-09 |
| documentation-and-adrs | addyosmani | Records decisions and documentation. Use when you need to document an architecture decision (ADR) or the reas… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| git-workflow-and-versioning | addyosmani | Structures git workflow practices. Use when making any code change. Use when committing, branching, resolving… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| source-driven-development | addyosmani | Grounds every implementation decision in official documentation. Use when you want to verify an approach agai… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| developing-genkit-dart | Generates code and provides documentation for the Genkit Dart SDK. Use when the user asks to build AI agents… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 | |
| retrieving-developer-knowledge | Searches, retrieves, and synthesizes official Google developer documentation across Google Cloud, AI/Gemini,… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about doc-coauthoring
- What does doc-coauthoring do?
- Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation, triggering when users mention writing documents, creating proposals, or drafting specifications. No specific credentials are required.
- How do I install doc-coauthoring?
- Run npx skills add anthropics/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes doc-coauthoring?
- anthropic.
- Is doc-coauthoring maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 183,845 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-09. We did not find a declared licence, so check the repository before you rely on it.
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