What are the best Claude Code skills for technical documentation?
go-documentation from eduardo-sl/go-agent-skills is the highest-scoring Claude Code skill for technical documentation, at 95/100 (grade A) on the Suede Skill Check. The table below compares the top 15 of 30 listed documentation skills from 14 repositories by score, publisher and license, using the October 22, 2026 snapshot of SuedeAI.directory.
- 30 listed documentation skills
- 3 full pages scoring 80+
- 18 repositories
Compare 15 Claude Code skills for technical documentation
Ranked by Suede Skill Check score. Linked names open the directory listing; scores come from the published rubric.
| Skill | Publisher | Suede Skill Check | License | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| go-documentation | eduardo-sl eduardo-sl/go-agent-skills | 95/100 · A | MIT | Go documentation conventions: godoc comments, package docs, testable Example functions, deprecation notices, doc links, and project docs (README… |
| diataxis-writer | tronghieu tronghieu/agent-skills | 87/100 · B | MIT | Writes, restructures, classifies, and reviews documentation of any kind with the Diataxis framework, including knowledge bases, help centers, manuals, runbooks, tutorials, and references. |
| markdown-mermaid-writing | K-Dense-AI K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | 87/100 · B | Apache-2.0 | Writes scientific Markdown documentation and Mermaid diagrams for workflows, relationships, timelines, and schemas. Provides syntax references… |
| code-documenter | jeffallan jeffallan/claude-skills | 84/100 · B | MIT | Generates, formats, and validates technical documentation — including docstrings, OpenAPI/Swagger specs, JSDoc annotations, doc portals, and user… |
| provider-docs | HashiCorp Official hashicorp/agent-skills | 80/100 · B | MPL-2.0 | Creates, updates, and reviews Terraform provider documentation for the Terraform Registry using HashiCorp-recommended patterns and tfplugindocs templates. |
| documentation | mcollina mcollina/skills | 80/100 · B | MIT | Creates, structures, and reviews technical documentation using the Diátaxis framework of tutorials, how-to guides, reference, and explanation pages. |
| utility-pm-changelog-curator | product-on-purpose product-on-purpose/pm-skills | 80/100 · B | Apache-2.0 | Draft CHANGELOG entries from git log via the pm-changelog-curator sub-agent, applying the repo hygiene rules (describe what changed, public paths… |
| api-documentation | LambdaTest Official LambdaTest/agent-skills | 79/100 · C | MIT | Generate comprehensive, professional API documentation from API designs, endpoint definitions, OpenAPI/Swagger specs, route lists, or raw endpoint… |
| docs-sync-audit | GitHub Official github/awesome-copilot | 79/100 · C | MIT | Run a read-only documentation drift audit for a feature, PR, branch, release, API, configuration change, workflow, CLI, package, or repository area… |
| technical-doc-creator | mhattingpete mhattingpete/claude-skills-marketplace | 78/100 · C | Apache-2.0 | Creates HTML technical documentation with code blocks, API workflows, system architecture diagrams, and syntax highlighting for API references and developer documentation. |
| doc-coauthoring | Sentry Official getsentry/skills | 78/100 · C | Apache-2.0 | Guides users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation, proposals, technical specs, and decision docs, including context transfer, iteration, and reader checks. |
| docs-auditor | infrasity-labs infrasity-labs/dev-gtm-claude-skills | 78/100 · C | MIT | Audits any developer documentation site across 33 checks in 7 categories and produces a scored report (out of 100) with Pass / Warn / Fail status… |
| sdk-docs-auditor | infrasity-labs infrasity-labs/dev-gtm-claude-skills | 78/100 · C | MIT | Audits any SDK documentation site and produces a fully scored, downloadable HTML report. Use this skill whenever a user provides a documentation URL… |
| dart-write-documentation | Flutter Official flutter/skills | 77/100 · C | BSD-3-Clause | Provides rules and formatting guidelines for writing Dart /// API documentation and doc comments, following Effective Dart for libraries, classes, methods, and variables. |
| technical-documentation | wondelai wondelai/skills | 76/100 · C | MIT | Audit, write, and improve developer documentation using Google's Developer Documentation Style Guide and Technical Writing courses. Use this skill… |
Questions and answers
Which documentation skill has the highest Suede Skill Check score?
go-documentation from eduardo-sl/go-agent-skills scores 95/100, grade A, the highest of the 30 listed documentation skills in the October 22, 2026 snapshot. It earns full points for structural checks, recent maintenance and instruction depth. diataxis-writer from tronghieu/agent-skills follows at 87/100.
How do I install a documentation skill in Claude Code?
Run npx skills add with the skill folder's GitHub URL from your project, or copy the folder into .claude/skills/ and Claude Code loads it when a request matches its description. For go-documentation, run: npx skills add https://github.com/eduardo-sl/go-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/(code-quality)/go-documentation. Each full skill page on SuedeAI.directory lists the same steps for Claude Code and Codex.
Are these documentation skills free?
All 15 documentation skills on this page are published in public GitHub repositories and cost nothing to download. Every one uses an open-source or open-content license, led by MIT (9), Apache-2.0 (4), BSD-3-Clause (1) and MPL-2.0 (1), so you can use and adapt the files at no cost under those terms.
Do these documentation skills work with Codex and Cursor?
Yes. Each of the 15 documentation skills on this page is a SKILL.md folder in the Agent Skills format, which Claude Code, Codex and Cursor all read. The skills CLI (npx skills add) installs every one of them into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents, and each full skill page adds a project-level copy into .claude/skills for Claude Code and .agents/skills for Codex. 2 of them declare compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
How does SuedeAI.directory rank documentation skills?
By Suede Skill Check score from 0 to 99, which adds structure, description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations, all read from each skill's published files. A skill joins this page when its name or summary matches the technical documentation keyword map; each repository fills at most three rows, so the table compares publishers.
Which documentation skills come from official publishers?
provider-docs from HashiCorp, api-documentation from LambdaTest, docs-sync-audit from GitHub, doc-coauthoring from Sentry and dart-write-documentation from Flutter are published by the company behind the tool, marked Official in the table.
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