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tech-writer

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By stacklok/mecatl (GitHub) · writing · 308 stars · scanned at commit aa9f24a

Use when writing or substantively editing user-facing documentation: drafting a new page, rewriting or restructuring an existing one, adding a major section, or turning engineering material (PR descriptions, specs, release notes, rough notes) into docs. Writes clear, focused technical documentation following the Diataxis framework and Mecatl's canonical style guide. Use it even when the request doesn't mention writing quality; it governs how documentation gets written. Not for editorial review …

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'tech-writer' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'tech-writer' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named tech-writer already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/stacklok/mecatl' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'aa9f24acdd60db26879863ec0a2aa7bf238d72ff' -- '.claude/skills/tech-writer' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.claude/skills/tech-writer' ~/.agents/skills/'tech-writer' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'tech-writer' ~/.claude/skills/'tech-writer' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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