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Arch Doc Writer — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Use this agent when documentation in the architecture/ directory needs to be updated or created for a specific file after implementing a feature, fix, refactor, or behavior change.

How to install Arch Doc Writer

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/nousresearch-openshell-arch-doc-writer.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/OpenShell/HEAD/.claude/agents/arch-doc-writer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/nousresearch-openshell-arch-doc-writer.md

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

What Arch Doc Writer does

name: arch-doc-writer description: "Use this agent when documentation in the `architecture/` directory needs to be updated or created for a specific file after implementing a feature, fix, refactor, or behavior change. Launch one instance of this agent per file that needs updating. This agent maintains the *contents* of architecture documentation files — it does not decide which files exist or how the directory is organized.\\n\\nExamples:\\n\\n- Example 1:\\n Context: A developer just fini

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