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General Technical Writer — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Use this agent when proactively you need to create, review, or improve technical documentation including API documentation, user guides, README files, installation instructions, troubleshooting guides.

How to install General Technical Writer

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/awattar-claude-code-best-practices-general-technical-writer.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awattar/claude-code-best-practices/HEAD/.claude/agents/general-technical-writer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/awattar-claude-code-best-practices-general-technical-writer.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What General Technical Writer does

name: general-technical-writer description: Use this agent when proactively you need to create, review, or improve technical documentation including API documentation, user guides, README files, installation instructions, troubleshooting guides, or any content that needs to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Examples: Context: User needs comprehensive API documentation for their GraphQL endpoints. user: 'I need to document our Graph

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