documentation
documentation is an agent skill published by mcollina, listed under writing & docs. It lives in the mcollina/skills repository, which has 1,960 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
This tool creates, structures, and reviews technical documentation according to the Diátaxis framework, including tutorials, how-to guides, reference, and explanation pages. It requires no specific credentials.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads mcollina/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 mcollina/skills
Maintenance
Creates, structures, and reviews technical documentation following the Diátaxis framework (tutorials, how-to guides, reference, and explanation pages). Use when a user needs to write or reorganize docs, structure a tutorial vs. a how-to guide, build reference docs or API documentation, create explanation pages, choose between Diátaxis documentation types, or improve existing documentation structure. Trigger terms include: documentation structure, Diátaxis, tutorials vs how-to guides, organize docs, user guide, reference docs, technical writing.
documentation compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| documentation (this page) | mcollina | Creates, structures, and reviews technical documentation following the Diátaxis framework (tutorials, how-to… | 1,960 | 2026-10-18 |
| init(same repository) | mcollina | Creates, updates, or optimizes an AGENTS.md file for a repository with minimal, high-signal instructions cove… | 1,960 | 2026-10-18 |
| academy-guide | 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 |
| doc-coauthoring | anthropic | Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write docume… | 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 |
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 documentation
- What does documentation do?
- This tool creates, structures, and reviews technical documentation according to the Diátaxis framework, including tutorials, how-to guides, reference, and explanation pages. It requires no specific credentials.
- How do I install documentation?
- Run npx skills add mcollina/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes documentation?
- mcollina.
- Is documentation maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 1,960 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-18. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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