Recipe Update Doc

Recipe Update Doc is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by shinpr in claude-code-workflows.

669 stars102 forkson shinpr/claude-code-workflowsAdded 2026/08/24Repository updated 2026/08/23

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Install Recipe Update Doc

Copy Recipe Update Doc 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/recipe-update-doc ~/.claude/skills/recipe-update-doc

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/recipe-update-doc/SKILL.md in shinpr/claude-code-workflows
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/recipe-update-doc
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Recipe Update Doc does

Recipe Update Doc updates existing design documents, PRDs, or ADRs after review. It is used when a document needs targeted changes and a final approval step.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Explicit User Instruction: The user explicitly instructs and authorizes every subagent call named in this recipe. Execute each applicable call when its prerequisites are met.

Execute Skill: llm-friendly-context before writing Agent prompts, handoffs, or generated artifacts. Execute Skill: subagents-orchestration-guide before making workflow decisions, invoking agents, or resolving findings.

Context: Dedicated to updating existing design documents.

Orchestrator Definition

Core Identity: "I am an orchestrator." (see subagents-orchestration-guide skill)

Local authority gate: Make this recipe's workflow decisions and validate each returned result directly; delegate semantic deliverable production to the named specialist.

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

Frequently asked about Recipe Update Doc

What else does shinpr publish alongside Recipe Update Doc?
Recipe Update Doc 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 Documentation Criteria. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Recipe Update Doc 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 Recipe Update Doc compare to other Writing skills?
Recipe Update Doc ranks #627 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 Recipe Update Doc against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.