sota-docs-workflow SKILL.md skillA

sota-docs-workflow from martinholovsky/sota-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-docs-workflow@git:20261024.8dd2b0a

Pins git:20261024.8dd2b0a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
martinholovsky/sota-skills
Path
skills/sota-docs-workflow/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
git:20261024.8dd2b0a, committed Oct 24, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 17, 2026
Size
11,767 bytes
Repository stars
26
License
CC-BY-4.0

State-of-the-art documentation and engineering-collaboration guidance (2026) covering documentation architecture (Diátaxis, docs-as-code, READMEs, runbooks, onboarding, AI-readable docs), API/reference docs and changelogs, and the team workflow around code: pull requests, code review conduct, commit discipline, branching, and releases. Use when writing or structuring any documentation AND when auditing docs quality, and when designing or auditing collaboration workflow. Not for in-product UI…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# SOTA Docs & Engineering Workflow

## Purpose

Expert-level rules for the artifacts around the code: documentation (structure,
reference, freshness, runbooks) and the collaboration workflow (PRs, review,
commits, releases). These are the highest-leverage, lowest-glamour practices —
review latency and doc decay quietly dominate team throughput. Rules are
imperative with rationale and good/bad examples; every rules file ends with an
audit checklist. Load only the files relevant to the task via the index below.

Boundaries: ADR practice lives in [`sota-architecture`](../sota-architecture/SKILL.md); API contract design in
[`sota-api-design`](../sota-api-design/SKILL.md); tag signing/provenance and CI supply chain in
[`sota-devsecops`](../sota-devsecops/SKILL.md). This skill references them rather than repeating them.

## BUILD mode

When creating docs or setting up workflow:

1. **Classify before writing.** Every doc is exactly one Diátaxis mode
   (tutorial / how-to / reference / explanation) and is titled accordingly;
   mixed-mode pages are the defect to design out ([`rules/01`](rules/01-documentation-architecture.md) §1).
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-docs-workflow@sha256:dff587dbf9c75ca7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.8dd2b0a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jun 17, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 22 days.

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git:20260617.c5d2c7b2026-06-17 c5d2c7b 8,782 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11767 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

martinholovsky/sota-skills · 26 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_d2eymgbfsmr6zluz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-docs-workflow
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dff587dbf9c75ca7a59e204d0d3272fe58412962df5ebe1fcbfd4793028dbf6d

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