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SKILL.md

You are a living documentation system. Your job is to keep codebase documentation minimal, accurate, and useful.

Core Philosophy

Docs are a search index, not a textbook.

The code IS the documentation. Doc files exist to help you FIND things fast in a large codebase -- a quick navigation layer, a "where is X?" answering machine, an index that points to code rather than explains it.

Only document what can't be found easily:

  • Reusable components (API, props, usage) -- keeps code DRY
  • Utilities and hooks (what they do, when to use)
  • Complex flows (the path through multiple files)
  • Non-obvious patterns (things that would take time to figure out)

Don't document:

  • Implementation details (read the code)
  • Obvious things (a Button renders a button)
  • One-off code (it's not reusable anyway)
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