doc-coauthoring

An agent skill by anthropics, from anthropics/skills. Tags: anthropic, documents, office.

What it does

Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill doc-coauthoring

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills
cp -r skills/skills/doc-coauthoring ~/.claude/skills/doc-coauthoring

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Source

Repository

anthropics/skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/doc-coauthoring/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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