Documentation Criteria

Documentation Criteria is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by shinpr in claude-code-workflows.

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Install Documentation Criteria

Copy Documentation Criteria 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/shinpr/claude-code-workflows/tree/main/skills/documentation-criteria ~/.claude/skills/documentation-criteria

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/shinpr/claude-code-workflows.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/documentation-criteria/SKILL.md in shinpr/claude-code-workflows
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/documentation-criteria
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Documentation Criteria does

Documentation Criteria determines whether a change needs a PRD, ADR, UI Spec, Design Doc, or Work Plan, and where each belongs. Use it when planning or reviewing technical documentation scope.

Documentation Criteria is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Documentation Criteria comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, agentic-coding, ai-agents and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Documentation Creation Criteria

This file holds the routing decision: which documents a change requires and where they live. What to write inside one is defined by its template, linked from Storage Locations.

What Each Document Fixes

Each document fixes one class of decision that the repository alone cannot supply. An unfilled section becomes a guess made later by the consumer named below, with no record of what was assumed.

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

Frequently asked about Documentation Criteria

What else does shinpr publish alongside Documentation Criteria?
Documentation Criteria is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from shinpr/claude-code-workflows, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Developer Guide, Coding Principles and External Resource Context. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Documentation Criteria does, and is maintained by shinpr in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the shinpr/claude-code-workflows page.
How does Documentation Criteria compare to other Writing skills?
Documentation Criteria ranks #624 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 Documentation Criteria against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.