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Generate Readme — Documentation skill for Claude Code

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Generates a comprehensive, professional README file for any repository, project, or subfolder following industry best practices and documentation psychology principles.

How to install Generate Readme

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/armstrongl-claude-toolbox-generate-readme/SKILL.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/armstrongl-claude-toolbox-generate-readme && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/armstrongl/claude-toolbox/HEAD/commands/generate-readme.md -o ~/.claude/skills/armstrongl-claude-toolbox-generate-readme/SKILL.md

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

What Generate Readme does


name: generate-readme description: Generates a comprehensive, professional README file for any repository, project, or subfolder following industry best practices and documentation psychology principles. argument-hint: [path] allowed-tools: Bash(git:*), Bash(npm:*), Bash(yarn:*), Bash(pip:*), Bash(cargo:*), Edit, Read, Write, MultiEdit, Grep, Glob, Task, WebFetch, WebSearch, LS thinking-mode: deep auto-execute: false parameters:

  • name: path type: string required: false default

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