tend-docs

What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the frustration of inconsistent, poorly structured technical documentation that fails to serve its intended audience or match project-specific conventions, leading to confusion for developers, operators, and integrators using the software.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Audience-Targeted Content: Automatically tailors documentation pacing, depth, and assumed knowledge to four defined technical audiences: newcomers, returning power users, operators mid-task, and developers integrating the tool.
• Diataxis Framework Alignment: Structures all content into the four Diataxis quadrants (tutorial, how-to, reference, explanation) to avoid mixed messaging and ensure each section serves a single clear purpose.
• Context-Aware "Why" Sourcing: Pulls motivation and reasoning from GitHub issue graphs, pull request discussions, and commit history to ensure documentation accurately reflects the intent behind features, rather than just describing their behavior.
• Project Convention Matching: Automatically detects and matches existing repo documentation conventions including frontmatter shape, version markers, changelog format, callout style, and cross-linking patterns.

Quick Start

Use the tend-docs skill to write a how-to guide for setting up the chalk GitHub issue tracker for new developer users.