documentation-governance
Skill0 starsChanged 42 days agoMITView on GitHub
Material edits to durable governance, architecture, ownership, project-policy, or decision documentation.
In this repository26 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- global/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- architecture-decisionSkill
- code-reviewSkill
- existing-project-adoptionSkill
- implementation-executionSkill
- project-bootstrapSkill
- project-doctorSkill
- security-sensitive-changeSkill
- session-handoffSkill
- systematic-debuggingSkill
- tooling-bootstrapSkill
- workflow-auditSkill
- architecture-decisionSkill
- code-reviewSkill
- documentation-governanceSkill
- existing-project-adoptionSkill
- implementation-executionSkill
- project-bootstrapSkill
- project-doctorSkill
- security-sensitive-changeSkill
- session-handoffSkill
- systematic-debuggingSkill
- tooling-bootstrapSkill
- workflow-auditSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 5 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 9
Keep implementation-coupled documentation accurate without creating an approval gate.
- Distinctive: line 11
Update automatically when required by the approved implementation:
- Distinctive: line 17
Stop and ask before materially changing durable governance or project-policy documents unless the user explicitly requested that document:
- Distinctive: line 24
Before asking, state what should change, why, what implementation/validation already occurred, and whether the update is required or …
- Distinctive: line 28
After approval, update only the canonical owner of each fact/rule.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Documentation Governance
Keep implementation-coupled documentation accurate without creating an approval gate.
Update automatically when required by the approved implementation:
- README usage/setup affected by the change;
- API examples and configuration docs;
- narrowly affected developer docs;
- comments and docstrings.
Stop and ask before materially changing durable governance or project-policy documents unless the user explicitly requested that document:
AGENTS.md/AGENTS.override.md;- architecture or ownership policy;
- project-wide process rules;
- durable planning/decision logs such as
TASKS.md,AI_CHANGELOG.md, or equivalent.
Before asking, state what should change, why, what implementation/validation already occurred, and whether the update is required or recommended. An explicit request to edit a named durable document is approval within that scope; ask again only if the edit materially exceeds it.
After approval, update only the canonical owner of each fact/rule. Reference other docs instead of duplicating project truth.
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