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7/16/2026

The original title is "engineering-docs: A skill library for AI coding agents to generate structured engineering documentation"
Original: I Was Tired of Writing the Same Design Docs From Scratch, So I Built a Skill Library for It
Short summary
The author built engineering-docs, a library of 21 skills for AI coding agents that cover the full software lifecycle from discovery to postmortem. The skills encode proper documentation structures—SRS following ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148, C4 architecture models, STRIDE threat models, OpenAPI 3.1 API design—so agents produce complete specs instead of half-finished output. The approach treats documentation consistency as a system problem solvable by encoding expert knowledge into agent-loadable skills.
- •Built 21 skills for AI coding agents covering full software lifecycle documentation
- •Skills encode standards like ISO 29148 SRS, C4 architecture, STRIDE threat models, OpenAPI 3.1
- •Goal is consistent documentation without cutting corners, by teaching agents the structure of good engineering docs
Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.
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