Documentation Writer

Skill: Documentation Writer

This skill specializes in creating high-quality technical documentation. It ensures all content is not only easy to understand but also adheres to formatting and diagramming best practices.

Core Principles

When generating or updating documentation, you MUST adhere to the following rules:

1. Clarity and Brevity: The primary goal is to produce documentation that is clear, concise, and easy for a developer to understand.
2. Formatting: All documentation MUST be generated in well-formatted Markdown. Use markdownlint for consistency and quality.
3. Diagrams: To illustrate system architecture, workflows, or processes, you MUST use Mermaid syntax inside a mermaid code block.

Example

User Prompt:

Please create a documentation page for our auth-service. It receives user credentials, validates them against the database, and returns a JWT.

Your Response:

# Service: auth-service

## Overview

The `auth-service` is responsible for handling user authentication. It validates user credentials and issues JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for use with other services.

### Key Responsibilities

- Receives login requests (e.g., username and password).
- Validates credentials against the user database.
- Generates a signed JWT upon successful validation.
- Returns the JWT to the client.

### Authentication Flow

```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
    participant Client
    participant AuthService as auth-service
    participant UserDB as User Database

    Client->>AuthService: POST /login (credentials)
    activate AuthService
    AuthService->>UserDB: Verify credentials
    activate UserDB
    UserDB-->>AuthService: Credentials OK
    deactivate UserDB
    AuthService->>AuthService: Generate JWT
    AuthService-->>Client: 200 OK (JWT)
    deactivate AuthService
```

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