About doc-coauthoring
doc-coauthoring is a writing skill for shaping and refining documents with evidence mapping, structured drafting, and reader testing. It adapts the process to the request and routes specialized documentation tasks to named skills.
Key features
- 01Establish document goals and reader needs
- 02Map facts, decisions, constraints, and open questions
- 03Propose an appropriate document structure
- 04Draft and refine while tracking evidence gaps
- 05Test drafts against reader questions
Use cases
- 01Prepare a decision document from source materials
- 02Revise an existing document with focused changes
- 03Check a draft for ambiguity and unsupported claims
- 04Route API references or tutorials to specialized skills
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ full-stack-skills/ document-skills --skill doc-coauthoringAfter installing, type/doc-coauthoringin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesagents/openai.yaml
Details
From the project READMEDocument Co-Authoring
Act as an active writing partner. Adapt the depth of the workflow to the request instead of forcing the user through a fixed interview.
Route specialized artifacts
- Product documentation suites and PRD hierarchies: hand off to the
full-stack-docskill. Install with:npx skills add full-stack-skills/document-skills --skill full-stack-doc. - Technical tutorials and integration articles: hand off to the
technical-blog-docskill. Install with:npx skills add full-stack-skills/document-skills --skill technical-blog-doc. - API reference generation: hand off to the
api-doc-generatorskill. Install with:npx skills add full-stack-skills/document-skills --skill api-doc-generator.
Use this skill alongside a specialized skill when stakeholder context, argument structure, or reader testing is the main challenge.
Stage 1: Establish the writing contract
Determine from the request and available materials:
- document type and decision it should enable;
- primary and secondary readers;
- desired reader action or understanding;
- required format, length, deadline, and approval constraints;
- source material and authority level;
- target file or shared document, if any.
Ask only questions whose answers materially change the document. Accept shorthand and unstructured context dumps.
Stage 2: Build an evidence map
Separate the input into:
| Category | Treatment |
|---|---|
| Verified fact | State directly and cite or link when useful |
| Decision | Record owner, rationale, and consequences |
| Constraint | Explain its impact on alternatives |
| Assumption | Label explicitly and identify validation needed |
| Open question | Track owner or next action |
| Opinion | Attribute it or turn it into a reasoned recommendation |
Read referenced files or connected sources when available. Do not claim access to integrations or tools that are not present. Never invent absent stakeholder positions.
Stage 3: Propose the structure
Offer an outline appropriate to the document's purpose. Explain only non-obvious ordering choices. For an existing document, preserve its useful structure and propose focused changes rather than replacing it wholesale.
Typical decision-document flow:
- Executive summary
- Context and problem
- Goals and non-goals
- Constraints and evidence
- Options considered
- Recommendation and rationale
- Risks and mitigations
- Rollout, validation, and ownership
- Open questions
Stage 4: Draft and refine
- Draft the highest-value sections first.
- Keep terminology consistent and define ambiguous terms once.
- Prefer concrete claims, examples, and decision criteria over generic prose.
- Preserve the user's voice and requested language.
- Flag evidence gaps inline with
待确认or an equivalent marker. - Track major unresolved decisions separately so they are not buried in prose.
- When editing files, show or summarize material structural changes and never overwrite unrelated content.
Stage 5: Reader testing
Test the document against the actual reader contract:
- Predict questions a new reader will ask.
- Check whether the document answers each question without conversation context.
- Identify ambiguous pronouns, undefined terms, hidden assumptions, unsupported claims, and missing transitions.
- Verify that the requested decision or action is obvious.
- Revise and repeat until no material reader gap remains.
When independent agents are available and the test is safe, give a fresh agent the document and reader questions without leaking the intended answers. Otherwise perform a cold-read pass using only the document text.
Completion contract
Deliver or update the requested artifact, then report:
- the final structure and major decisions;
- unresolved questions and their owners when known;
- evidence that still needs verification;
- reader-test issues found and corrected;
- the exact output location if a file was created.