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## I have read the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

YES

## What kind of change does this PR introduce?

Adds four AI agent skills that support docs contributors across the
authoring lifecycle, intended to lower the barrier to entry for
contributing to our docs.

Closes DOCS-1287.

## What is the current behavior?

Our process for writing docs is somewhat undefined beyond some general
guidance in CONTRIBUTING.md and we don't make as easy to contribute to
our docs as we could. As a result, content often needs additional
changes during PR reviews or requires further revisions after merging.

The four AI agent skills in this PR already existed in a private repo
where I've been testing them but they were not previously available for
general use until now.

## What is the new behavior?

- Four skills added under `.agents/skills/`, symlinked from
`.claude/skills/` and `.cursor/skills/` (same pattern as the existing
`vitest` skill).
- `ask-the-docs`: answers architecture and design questions about
apps/docs (MDX pipeline, content components, federated docs) and checks
whether a proposed change fits existing docs app patterns.
- `write-the-docs`: drafts net-new or substantially rewritten docs
content for a feature or launch, grounded in the Linear ticket, the
actual code, and the docs style guide.
- `review-the-docs`: runs a local, PR-type-specific review checklist
against any open supabase/supabase docs PR (markdown pipeline, MDX
content, tutorials, examples, Studio links) and produces a consolidated
report.
- `pm-the-docs`: supports "Write the docs" authoring process across the
different phases.
- `apps/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md` gets a new "AI agent skills for docs
authoring" section mapping each skill to its checklist stage
- Cross-references to skills that stay in `docs-agent-skills`
(`work-linear-issue`, `audit-docs-ia`, `create-pull-request`,
`proof-it-works`, `pm-the-docs-full`) now point there via absolute
GitHub links instead of relative paths

## Additional context

- Companion PR:
[supabase/docs-agent-skills#28](https://github.com/supabase/docs-agent-skills/pull/28).
Removes the three moved skills, renames `pm-the-docs` to
`pm-the-docs-full`, and fixes now-dangling inbound links.
- Worktree:
`~/GitHub/supabase/supabase-worktrees/nikrichers/docs-1287-move-skills-mentioned-in-write-the-docs-from-docs-agent`
- Opened as draft: this is a docs-authoring-tooling change with no
runtime/build surface. Flip to ready once you've sanity-checked the
skill content.

### Test plan

- [ ] `ls -la
.claude/skills/{ask-the-docs,pm-the-docs,write-the-docs,review-the-docs}`
resolves to `.agents/skills/...`
- [ ] Open a fresh Claude Code session with cwd in this repo and confirm
`/ask-the-docs`, `/pm-the-docs`, `/write-the-docs`, `/review-the-docs`
are available
- [ ] Read the new section in
[`apps/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md`](apps/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md) in context
- [ ] Spot-check
`.agents/skills/pm-the-docs/reference/write-the-docs-checklist.md` has
no `linear.app` links and carries the snapshot disclaimer

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Co-authored-by: Nik Richers <nik@validmind.ai>
2026-08-12 22:48:30 +00:00
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2026-07-01 12:59:00 +02:00
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