Anthropic

Doc Co-authoring — Documentation skill for Claude Code

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Guide users through structured workflow for co-authoring documentation.

How to install Doc Co-authoring

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/doc-coauthoring/

Terminal

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills /tmp/skills \
  && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills \
  && cp -r /tmp/skills/skills/doc-coauthoring ~/.claude/skills/doc-coauthoring

Clones the whole repository, because a skill folder can carry scripts and resources beside its SKILL.md.

What Doc Co-authoring does

Structured workflow for collaborative document creation through three stages: Context Gathering (closing knowledge gaps), Refinement & Structure (iterative section building), and Reader Testing (testing with fresh Claude to catch blind spots).

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When Claude uses Doc Co-authoring

Trigger

When user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content

Tools it reaches for:

WriteRead

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