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Design, write, review, and test code samples in developer documentation, including executable examples, explanatory snippets, request and response pairs, placeholders, outputs, language choice, sandboxing, and autogenerated samples. Use when docs include API examples, SDK snippets, CLI commands, config examples, tutorials, or code blocks readers may copy.

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  2. Copy the prompt below and paste it into your agent.
  3. Review the proposed files and risks before you approve installation.
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Code Sample Documentation

Use this skill to create and review code samples that are useful, accurate, copyable, and maintainable. It applies to executable examples, explanatory snippets, API request/response pairs, CLI commands, config files, and generated references.

This skill is derived from Docs for Developers: An Engineer's Field Guide to Technical Writing, especially Chapter 5, "Integrating code samples." The guidance is transformed and paraphrased; do not copy book prose into user outputs. Source: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7217-6

Quick Start

  1. Load guidelines.md to choose the smallest useful reference set.
  2. Classify the sample as executable, explanatory, or paired request/response.
  3. Check whether the sample is explained, concise, clear, usable, and trustworthy.
  4. Use workflows/review-code-sample.md for a full sample review.
  5. Prefer running or testing samples when feasible; otherwise mark what remains unverified.

Default Output

When reviewing or designing code samples, return:

  1. Sample purpose - what the reader should learn or accomplish.
  2. Sample type - executable, explanatory, request/response, CLI, config, or generated.
  3. Issues or design notes - ordered by reader risk.
  4. Revised sample - concise and copyable when requested.
  5. Testing plan - how to verify runtime behavior, outputs, and version assumptions.
  6. Maintenance notes - source of truth, owner, and generated/manual boundary.

Contents

NeedStart Here
Understand sample typesreferences/core/knowledge.md
Apply sample rulesreferences/core/knowledge.md
See before/after examplesreferences/core/knowledge.md
Review or design a sampleworkflows/review-code-sample.md
Route by taskguidelines.md

Core Posture

  • A sample is documentation and software; treat it as both.
  • Match sample complexity to the reader's stage.
  • Make placeholders, inputs, outputs, and limitations explicit.
  • Do not imply a sample is production-ready unless it has been reviewed and tested for that use.