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documentation-criteria from shinpr/claude-code-workflows is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add shinpr/claude-code-workflows/documentation-criteria@git:20261029.3d4a3cd

Pins git:20261029.3d4a3cd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
shinpr/claude-code-workflows
Path
dev-workflows-frontend/skills/documentation-criteria/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
git:20261029.3d4a3cd, committed Oct 29, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 6, 2026
Size
8,240 bytes
Repository stars
707
License
MIT

Determines which of PRD, ADR, UI Spec, Design Doc, and Work Plan a change requires, and where each is stored. Use when deciding documentation scope, or when creating or reviewing a technical document.

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

# Documentation Creation Criteria

This file holds the routing decision: which documents a change requires and where they live. What to write inside one is defined by its template, linked from Storage Locations.

## What Each Document Fixes

Each document fixes one class of decision that the repository alone cannot supply. An unfilled section becomes a guess made later by the consumer named below, with no record of what was assumed.

- **PRD** — Fixes the business outcome and the acceptance criteria later work traces to. Its AC IDs are the traceability keys that the Design Doc, UI Spec, and test selection reuse; without them each consumer re-derives requirements from prose and the link between a test and the value it protects is lost. Implementation details belong to the Design Doc, selection rationale to an ADR, phases and task breakdown to the Work Plan. Later design, review, and test selection treat its content as governing, so a precondition held outside the repository change, such as release execution or organizational approval, appears in it only when the user's wording raises it.
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add shinpr/claude-code-workflows/documentation-criteria@sha256:38bfc5dcdae0c8c8

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.3d4a3cd, 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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The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Aug 6, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, about one every 12 days.

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Source

GitHub

shinpr/claude-code-workflows · 707 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vgwmtyd4fuyya7fg
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=shinpr/claude-code-workflows/documentation-criteria
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/38bfc5dcdae0c8c8b6de3ee7c542c2411dcc93a936adca4ef16557b1ef161014

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