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WritingPython

Document Service

by awslabs

Document Service is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by awslabs in agent-plugins.

867 stars145 forkson awslabs/agent-pluginsAdded 2026/08/22Repository updated 2026/08/21
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Install Document Service
Copy Document Service into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/awslabs/agent-plugins/tree/main/plugins/codebase-documentor-for-aws/skills/document-service ~/.claude/skills/document-service

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/awslabs/agent-plugins.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
plugins/codebase-documentor-for-aws/skills/document-service/SKILL.md in awslabs/agent-plugins
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/document-service
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Writing1012 skills

What Document Service does

Document Service analyzes an existing codebase and produces structured technical documentation and architecture diagrams with file and line citations. It is used when you need to understand, onboard to, or document an inherited system, especially AWS workloads.

Document Service is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Document Service comes from a repository tagged agent-plugins, agent-skills, agents, aws and coding-agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Document Service

Analyze codebases to produce structured technical documentation and architecture diagrams with source-of-truth citations. Every finding links back to the exact file and line it was derived from. Optimized for AWS workloads but works with any codebase.

Core Principles

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Document Service

  • What else does awslabs publish alongside Document Service?

    Document Service is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from awslabs/agent-plugins, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AWS Architecture Diagram, AWS Lambda and AWS Lambda Durable Functions. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Document Service does, and is maintained by awslabs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the awslabs/agent-plugins page.

  • How does Document Service compare to other Writing skills?

    Document Service ranks #532 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Document Service against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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