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Use when an internal package, module, or shared component has little or no usage documentation and people (or future AI sessions) keep using it wrong: "document this", "write docs for our library", onboarding someone onto an internal API, or handing a package to another team.
Use when an internal package, module, or shared component has little or no usage documentation and people (or future AI sessions) keep using it wrong: "document this", "write docs for our library", onboarding someone onto an internal API, or handing a package to another team.
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Most internal packages ship with no usage docs, so every consumer: a teammate, or an AI: reads the source, guesses the intended usage, and gets the gotchas wrong. This skill fixes that: one colocated usage doc per public unit, capturing the API and the non-obvious rules, so the next reader is correct on the first try. It applies to any package: a UI component kit, a utils library, a services/API layer, a hooks package, an internal SDK.
Why it matters for portability: these docs are the layer that makes your package understandable to any model. If you move from one AI tool to another, the new model still understands your package immediately: the knowledge lives in the repo, not in one model's head.
This writes files into the user's repo. Confirm before doing anything: "I can generate AI-friendly
usage docs for <package> so any model (and teammate) understands it correctly: one doc per public unit,
with the gotchas. Want me to? (I'll show one sample first.)" Show a sample doc for one unit and get a
thumbs-up before fanning out across the package.
Discover the public units. Read the package's public entry (index.ts/exports) for the real list,
components, exported functions, hooks, services, classes. Note any existing docs' style and match it.
Never write a line you have not read the source for. For each unit: the implementation, its types, its variants/options, its tests/stories, and one real usage in the codebase. Verify every claim against the code (never document a guess; mark "unverified" or omit).
Write a colocated doc (a README.md/doc beside the unit) with a consistent template:
Prioritize the gotchas. The API table can be inferred from types; the gotchas cannot. That's the value.
Stamp it so drift is detectable. The code is the SSOT; the doc is derived: so record what it
was derived from, the way engineering/ROUTER.md records a hash per node. End each doc with a
footer naming the source file(s), the repo commit SHA at generation time, and a short content hash
of each source (git rev-parse --short HEAD, git hash-object <file>):
<!-- generated-from: src/Button.tsx@a1b2c3d (hash 9f4e21bc) · regenerate if the hash differs -->
Detecting drift is then a one-liner anyone (or any model) can run: re-hash the source and
compare to the footer, git hash-object src/Button.tsx, or git log a1b2c3d..HEAD -- src/Button.tsx
to see whether the unit changed since. Mismatch → treat the doc as stale: re-read the source and
regenerate that unit before trusting it. No build script required; if the repo already has a docs
check or pre-commit hook, wire the same comparison into it rather than inventing a second mechanism.
name: explain description: Use when an internal package, module, or shared component has little or no usage documentation and people (or future AI sessions) keep using it wrong: "document this", "write docs for our library", onboarding someone onto an internal API, or handing a package to another team.
---
name: explain
description: Use when an internal package, module, or shared component has little or no usage documentation and people (or future AI sessions) keep using it wrong: "document this", "write docs for our library", onboarding someone onto an internal API, or handing a package to another team.
---
# Document Package: make an internal package self-explaining to any model
Most internal packages ship with **no usage docs**, so every consumer: a teammate, *or an AI*: reads the
source, guesses the intended usage, and gets the gotchas wrong. This skill fixes that: **one colocated
usage doc per public unit**, capturing the API *and* the non-obvious rules, so the next reader is correct
on the first try. It applies to **any** package: a UI component kit, a utils library, a services/API
layer, a hooks package, an internal SDK.
> **Why it matters for portability:** these docs are the layer that makes your package understandable to
> *any* model. If you move from one AI tool to another, the new model still
> understands your package immediately: the knowledge lives in the repo, not in one model's head.
## Ask first: always
This writes files into the user's repo. **Confirm before doing anything:** *"I can generate AI-friendly
usage docs for `<package>` so any model (and teammate) understands it correctly: one doc per public unit,
with the gotchas. Want me to? (I'll show one sample first.)"* Show a **sample doc** for one unit and get a
thumbs-up before fanning out across the package.
## Method
1. **Discover the public units.** Read the package's public entry (`index.ts`/exports) for the real list,
components, exported functions, hooks, services, classes. Note any existing docs' style and **match it**.
2. **Never write a line you have not read the source for.** For each unit: the implementation, its types, its
variants/options, its tests/stories, and **one real usage** in the codebase. Verify every claim against
the code (never document a guess; mark "unverified" or omit).
3. **Write a colocated doc** (a `README.md`/doc beside the unit) with a consistent template:
- **Title + one-line purpose + what it's built on.**
- **Signature / API**: a table: params/props/args · type · default · description; what it returns.
- **Quick start**: the minimal correct usage (real import path).
- **Variants / options / states** (where applicable), with a code example each.
- **Composition**: how it combines with siblings.
- **Examples**: the handful of real scenarios people actually need.
- **Gotchas**: the highest-signal section: rules the API *doesn't* enforce but people get wrong
(default values, which state hides what, reserved-but-unimplemented options, ordering constraints).
- **Errors / accessibility / TypeScript**: as relevant to the unit's kind.
4. **Prioritize the gotchas.** The API table can be inferred from types; the gotchas cannot. That's the value.
5. **Stamp it so drift is detectable.** The code is the SSOT; the doc is derived: so record *what* it
was derived from, the way `engineering/ROUTER.md` records a hash per node. End each doc with a
footer naming the source file(s), the repo commit SHA at generation time, and a short content hash
of each source (`git rev-parse --short HEAD`, `git hash-object <file>`):
```html
<!-- generated-from: src/Button.tsx@a1b2c3d (hash 9f4e21bc) · regenerate if the hash differs -->
```
**Detecting drift** is then a one-liner anyone (or any model) can run: re-hash the source and
compare to the footer, `git hash-object src/Button.tsx`, or `git log a1b2c3d..HEAD -- src/Button.tsx`
to see whether the unit changed since. Mismatch → treat the doc as **stale**: re-read the source and
regenerate that unit before trusting it. No build script required; if the repo already has a docs
check or pre-commit hook, wire the same comparison into it rather than inventing a second mechanism.
## Guardrails
- **Derive from source, never invent.** Unconfirmable behavior → "unverified" or omit.
- **One doc per unit, colocated**: found next to the thing it describes, travels with it.
- **Match the package's existing doc style** if any exists; consistency beats your template.
- **Confirm scope + a sample before mass-generating**: the template must fit before you fan out.
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