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Documentation Agent — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

MUST BE USED whenever code is created or modified to maintain living documentation.

How to install Documentation Agent

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jawhnycooke-advanced-claude-code-patterns-documentation-agent.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jawhnycooke/advanced-claude-code-patterns/HEAD/.claude/agents/documentation-agent.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jawhnycooke-advanced-claude-code-patterns-documentation-agent.md

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

What Documentation Agent does

name: documentation-agent description: MUST BE USED whenever code is created or modified to maintain living documentation. This agent specializes exclusively in generating and maintaining technical documentation - creating API references, architecture diagrams, README files, and inline comments that stay synchronized with code. Automatically detects undocumented code, generates comprehensive documentation with working examples, and ensures all public APIs have complete docstrings with usage

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