Docs Steward

Docs Steward

Maintain, enhance, and improve the docs site at agents.w4w.dev. The site uses Astro + Starlight + starlight-theme-black. The wagents CLI generates MDX content pages from repository assets (skills, agents, MCP servers). This skill wraps that CLI and extends it with AI-powered enhancement, health checks, and site improvement capabilities.

When to Invoke

Invoke this skill after any of these events:

• Creating or modifying any skills/*/SKILL.md
• Creating or modifying any agents/*.md
• Creating or modifying any mcp/*/server.py or mcp/*/pyproject.toml
• Running wagents new skill, wagents new agent, or wagents new mcp
• Installing new skills via npx skills add

Auto-invocation is enabled by default (the disable-model-invocation field is absent, which defaults to false).

When invoked after asset changes, run in auto mode (default). No approval gates, no user prompts. Detect what changed, regenerate, enhance, verify.

Scope

In scope: Documentation site generation, MDX page enhancement, build verification, health checks, site configuration improvements, generation pipeline improvements, Astro component creation, CSS design system updates.

NOT for: Writing new skills (/skill-creator), creating agents (wagents new agent), building MCP servers (/mcp-creator), editing source SKILL.md or agent.md content, or managing the README (wagents readme).

Dispatch

Auto Mode (Default)

This is the primary mode. Run it when auto-triggered or when $ARGUMENTS is empty or auto.

Step 1: Detect Changes

Run these commands to identify changed asset files:

git diff --name-only HEAD
git status --porcelain

Filter results for asset files matching these patterns:

• skills/*/SKILL.md
• agents/*.md
• mcp/*/server.py
• mcp/*/pyproject.toml

If no asset files changed, report "No asset changes detected" and exit.

Step 2: Regenerate Pages

Run the CLI to regenerate all content pages:

uv run wagents docs generate

This produces MDX files under docs/src/content/docs/ for skills, agents, and MCP servers based on their source assets.

Step 3: Enhance Changed Pages

For each new or changed page, enhance it. Read the generated MDX and its source asset side by side, then improve:

1. Descriptions: Expand truncated or generic descriptions into specific, compelling text that explains what the asset does and when to use it.
2. Usage examples: Add clear invocation instructions if missing. For skills: show the /skill-name command and argument patterns. For agents: show how to spawn or reference them. For MCP servers: show connection config.
3. Visual elements: Add Starlight components where they improve comprehension:
   • Aside callouts for tips, warnings, and important notes
   • Steps for sequential instructions
   • Tabs for configuration variants (different agents, different modes)
   • CardGrid with Card for related items or feature overviews
4. Cross-references: Link to related assets. A skill that uses MCP servers should link to them. An agent with preloaded skills should link to those skills.
5. Section structure: Verify heading hierarchy (single h1, logical h2/h3 nesting). Reorganize if needed.

Consult references/quality-checklist.md for scoring criteria and references/starlight-patterns.md for component usage patterns.

Scaling Strategy

Each subagent receives: the current MDX content, the source SKILL.md or agent.md, the quality checklist, and the Starlight patterns reference.

Step 4: Verify Build

Run the docs build to confirm nothing is broken:

cd docs && pnpm build

If the build fails, diagnose the error, fix it, and rebuild.

Step 5: Validate Assets

Run the wagents validator to confirm all assets are still valid:

uv run wagents validate

Fix any validation errors before finishing.

Sync Mode

Force a full regeneration and build verification, regardless of what changed.

1. Run uv run wagents docs generate
2. Run cd docs && pnpm build
3. Report: number of pages generated, build status, any warnings

No enhancement in this mode. Use it to reset the generated pages to CLI baseline.

Sync Installed Mode

When $ARGUMENTS is sync installed:

Scan ~/.claude/skills/ for installed skills not already in the repo's skills/ directory. The wagents docs generate command handles this automatically via --include-installed (enabled by default).

1. Run uv run wagents docs generate (includes installed skill scanning)
2. For installed skills with sparse descriptions (<50 tokens), spawn a subagent to read the full SKILL.md and write a richer description for the docs page
3. Run pnpm --dir docs build to verify
4. Report: number of installed skills found, new/removed since last sync

Run this mode after installing new skills via npx skills add.

Enhance Mode

Enhance All

When $ARGUMENTS is enhance with no path:

1. List all generated MDX files under docs/src/content/docs/
2. For each page, score it against all 9 dimensions in references/quality-checklist.md
3. Spawn parallel subagents (Pattern A from orchestration guide), one per page or batch of 3-5 related pages
4. Each subagent receives:
   • The current MDX content
   • The corresponding source asset (SKILL.md, agent.md, or MCP files)
   • The quality checklist
   • The Starlight patterns reference
5. Each subagent enhances the page and writes the result
6. After all subagents complete, run cd docs && pnpm build to verify
7. Run uv run wagents validate

Enhance One

When $ARGUMENTS is enhance <path>:

1. Read the specified MDX file
2. Locate its source asset
3. Score against all 9 dimensions in quality checklist
4. Enhance in-place
5. Verify build and validate

Maintain Mode

Run a comprehensive health check on the documentation site.

Step 1: Build Check

cd docs && pnpm build

Capture output. Look for broken link warnings, missing image errors, build failures.

Step 2: Staleness Detection

Compare generated MDX page modification times against source asset modification times. Flag pages that are older than their source (the CLI was not re-run after the asset changed).

# Example: compare skills
for skill_dir in skills/*/; do
  skill_name=$(basename "$skill_dir")
  source="$skill_dir/SKILL.md"
  generated="docs/src/content/docs/skills/$skill_name.mdx"
  # Compare mtimes
done

Step 3: Orphan Detection

Find generated pages whose source assets no longer exist. These are orphans left behind when an asset was deleted but wagents docs generate was not re-run.

Step 4: Validation

uv run wagents validate
uv run wagents readme --check

Step 5: Report

Present findings grouped by severity:

• Critical: Build failures, broken links to external resources
• Warning: Stale pages, orphaned pages, validation errors
• Info: README out of date, minor inconsistencies

Offer to fix each category. Apply fixes in parallel where possible.

Improve Mode

Improve Site

When $ARGUMENTS is improve:

1. Research latest Starlight docs via Context7 or web search for new features, components, or best practices
2. Audit the site configuration:
   • docs/astro.config.mjs — plugins, integrations, sidebar config
   • docs/src/styles/custom.css — theming, visual polish
   • docs/src/content/docs/index.mdx — landing page
3. Propose improvements grouped by category:
   • New pages: Missing content that should exist
   • Navigation: Sidebar structure, grouping, ordering
   • Visual: Theme enhancements, component usage, layout
   • SEO: Meta descriptions, OpenGraph, structured data
   • Performance: Image optimization, build config
4. Ask the user before implementing — present proposals with effort estimates and let the user choose what to implement
5. Implement approved improvements

Improve Design

When $ARGUMENTS is improve design:

1. Read docs/src/styles/custom.css and references/site-architecture.md
2. Check design system maturity against the checklist in references/advanced-patterns.md
3. Identify missing tokens (spacing, shadows, radius, motion, z-index)
4. Propose additions with before/after visual impact
5. Ask the user before implementing

Improve UX

When $ARGUMENTS is improve ux:

1. Read component overrides in docs/src/components/starlight/
2. Check unused Starlight slots from references/site-architecture.md
3. Evaluate which interactive islands would have highest impact
4. Propose 3-5 improvements ranked by effort vs. impact
5. Ask the user before implementing

Improve Pipeline

When $ARGUMENTS is improve cli:

1. Read the documentation generation modules:
   • wagents/docs.py — index pages, sidebar, CLI page, docs subcommands
   • wagents/rendering.py — MDX page renderers (skill, agent, MCP)
   • wagents/parsing.py — frontmatter parsing, text transforms, MDX escaping
   • wagents/catalog.py — asset collection, node/edge data model
2. Identify gaps in the generation pipeline
3. Ask the user before implementing
4. Implement, regenerate, verify build

Full Mode

Execute all modes in sequence:

1. Sync: uv run wagents docs generate
2. Maintain: Full health check, fix critical issues
3. Enhance: Score and improve all pages (parallel subagents)
4. Improve: Research and propose site improvements (ask first)

Reference Files

Read these before enhancement work. They define the quality bar and component patterns to follow.

Critical Rules

1. Never delete pages generated by wagents docs generate — only enhance them
2. Always run uv run wagents validate after any changes to asset files
3. Always run cd docs && pnpm build to verify the build after changes
4. Never modify CLI-generated frontmatter (title, description) during enhancement
5. Always import Starlight components at top of MDX files before use
6. Never introduce raw JSX that breaks MDX parsing — escape {, <, > in prose
7. Always read references before enhancement work
8. Never assign the same file to multiple parallel subagents
9. Always revert enhancements that break the build, then rebuild
10. Never add fabricated or speculative content — enhance from source asset only
11. Always call wagents docs generate as foundation — never bypass the CLI
12. Never implement improve or improve cli changes without user approval

Canonical terms (use these exactly throughout):

• Modes: "Auto", "Sync", "Sync Installed", "Enhance All", "Enhance One", "Maintain", "Improve Site", "Improve Design", "Improve UX", "Improve Pipeline", "Full"
• Enhancement dimensions: "description", "usage examples", "visual elements", "cross-references", "structure", "interactivity", "external links", "agent compatibility"
• Severity levels: "Critical", "Warning", "Info"
• Page types: "skill page", "agent page", "MCP page", "index page", "landing page", "CLI page", "guide page"
• Pipeline modules: wagents/docs.py, wagents/rendering.py, wagents/parsing.py, wagents/catalog.py
• Site layers: "generated content" (MDX pages), "design system" (CSS), "components" (Astro overrides), "islands" (interactive client-side), "plugins" (Starlight ecosystem)