---
stable_id: skills/knowledge-work-plugins-engineering-skills-documentation-skill
type: skills
title: documentation
summary: Write and maintain technical documentation. Trigger with "write docs
  for", "document this", "create a README", "write a runbook", "onboarding
  guide", or when the user needs help with any form of technical writing — API
  docs, architecture docs, or operational runbooks.
tags:
  - source-knowledge-work-plugins
  - plugin-engineering
  - plugin-component-skills
  - plugin-skill
source_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/main/engineering/skills/documentation/SKILL.md
license: ""
upstream_ref: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/main/engineering/skills/documentation/SKILL.md
github_stars: null
github_forks: null
github_is_organization: null
retrieved_at: 2026-06-11T08:32:06.958Z
content_sha256: 1d469418f786a05be83d2a05f04d68788aeed584d13863a650f5ad73c6c4cf50
---
