docs-update-or-create

Documents

Guidelines that must be followed when creating or updating docs in this repo. Applies to AGENTS.md, README.md, **/docs/**/*.md, skill and sub-agent files.

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How to use this skill

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Review the proposed files and risks before you approve installation.

Prompt to paste

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/LedgerHQ/ledger-live/blob/HEAD/.agents/skills/docs-update-or-create/SKILL.md

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Create or Update Docs

Create minimal docs, avoid duplication and make content discoverable. Treat docs for both human and AI agents together. Follow our principles of progressive disclosure, locality and canonicalization.

📝 Process to follow

Understand the topic of knowledge and its purpose
Gather existing knowledge on that topic
Agree on the best format and location for it to live
Write/update the files, inline with what's agreed
Validate the results and refine as necessary

📜 Guidelines

These guidelines define some boundaries within which to operate. They do not dictate everything. Follow them, but also use judgement and creativity to find the best way to document knowledge in each case.

❌ BAD:

Avoid long files containing multiple levels of details
Avoid overloading context with rarely used knowledge
Avoid duplicating knowledge in multiple files
Avoid documenting community-obvious knowledge
Avoid preserving old structure for its own sake

✅ GOOD:

Add docs that measurably improve agent performance
Do document repeatable workflows, commands and behaviours
Capture what is peculiar to this repo, domain, or team
Only add docs that solve real problems
Delete files that have no unique value after changes
Use emojis, checkboxes and formatting sparingly to make docs more appealing

Keep it short

Keep it short and direct. Treat 100 lines as a target (not a hard limit)
Keep each file at one level of detail.
Link to narrower docs when detail must branch.
Use short inline examples when they replace explanation.
Link longer examples instead of embedding them.

Use frontmatter

Skill and agent definitions should use frontmatter to be discoverable by tools.
Frontmatter for READMEs is optional. If it's useful for you, include it
Tool-discoverable docs and skills should have name and description
Add allowed-tools, or compatibility only when they help.
Use disable-model-invocation: true for user-invoked skills (commands)
Use user-invocable: false for agent-only skills

Frontmatter Example for a skill

---
name: desktop-swap-guidance
description: Read when editing swap flows in Ledger Live Desktop.
---

💡 Principles

Apply principle of progressive disclosure
Follow our rules on docs locality
Avoid duplication by applying rules on canonicalization

🔎 Validation

Make sure links point to the canonical source
Ensure it is discoverable by agents and humans
Search for duplicated key phrases with rg
Check long docs with wc -l.
Verify AGENTS.md stays minimal.