Skill: Update Docs

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Lets your agent update claude skill and project docs when work changes behavior or makes instructions stale.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Skill: Update Docs skill

About this capability

Update durable docs when explicitly requested or when current work changes behavior, exposes stale instructions, establishes an operational pattern, or yields reusable research guidance.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by marin-community/marin in .agents/skills/update-docs/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use this when a task changes behavior, reveals stale instructions, creates a new operational pattern, or produces guidance that should survive outside the issue thread.

What to Update

  • User-facing docs when behavior or configuration changes.
  • Operational docs when commands, service setup, dashboards, alerts, or recovery procedures change.
  • Skill docs when an agent workflow becomes reusable.
  • Experiment reports or indexes when the work produces durable research findings.

Prefer editing the nearest existing doc over adding a new one. Add a new doc only when the topic lacks a natural home or would make an existing page unfocused.

Content Rules

  • Describe current behavior, not aspiration.
  • Include exact commands and paths for operational procedures.
  • Remove or correct stale instructions rather than adding caveats around them.
  • Keep broad docs concise; put detailed run notes in the existing issue, W&B report, or durable session channel.

Done Criteria

  • Docs and code agree for the changed behavior.
  • The next agent or human can find the authoritative procedure without reading the whole issue thread.
  • Any generated guidance is generalized enough to reuse and specific enough to act on.

Related Skills

Follow .agents/skills/writing-style/SKILL.md for writing-style guidance.

Signals

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Source
github.com/marin-community/marin