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brain-to-docs

Helps your agent turn project ideas into documents. It asks questions to understand the vision and decisions, creating documentation like README and ADR.

What it does

This AI agent helps you turn your project ideas and decisions into written documents, like a README and other decision logs (ADRs). It does this by talking with you, asking questions, and saving your answers.

When to use it

  • ✓When you want to create initial project documentation.
  • ✓When you need to record important decisions made about a project.
  • ✓When you want to ensure your project's vision and choices are clearly saved.

Example of what to ask your AI

“Turn my project vision into a README and save important decisions as ADRs.”

Want more? Open the sections below.

How to use

The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.

Skill link

https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/blob/main/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/brain-to-docs/SKILL.md

Ready-to-paste message

Use this skill to help me: https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/blob/main/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/brain-to-docs/SKILL.md Read the SKILL.md file at that link and follow its instructions for my task.
How it works

The AI will ask you questions about your project to understand your vision and decisions. It will save your answers into simple text documents (markdown), organizing the information.

Installation

Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.

In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:

npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill brain-to-docs

Or download just the file:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/main/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/brain-to-docs/SKILL.md -o SKILL.md
Technical content (original SKILL.md)

Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.

brain-to-docs

When to Use

  • Use when the user wants to extract project vision, decisions, or preferences into durable docs.
  • Use when README and ADRs should be built through a back-and-forth interview.

The whole purpose: extract as much of the user's taste, judgment, knowledge, vision, preferences, and decisions as possible into text — saved as clear, concise markdown docs for the project. README holds the vision; docs/adr/ holds the decisions.

The loop

  1. Check docs first, every time. Read docs/adr/ (and README.md) before doing anything — other agents and people add/edit ADRs constantly.
  2. Ask a small set of focused questions through the host's supported question interface or plain text — default 2–3 unless the user asks for a different number. Make them high-variety: a wide, creative spectrum of unique angles, not all the same type (e.g. not all "tech stack" or all "product" or all "monetization"). Exception: if the user asks for a specific focus area, follow it. The user answers whichever they find most useful.
  3. Integrate confirmed answers into the authorized docs. Preserve unanswered questions and distinguish tentative ideas from accepted decisions. You decide whether it updates README.md or becomes a new ADR — whatever makes sense.
  4. Repeat until the user says "we're done" (or similar).

Rules

  • All answers & responses during this "brain to docs" process must be VERY CONCISE, all sentences should be SHORT, and everything should be written in the user's requested language.
  • ADRs: short, numbered NNNN-slug.md, Status + Context + Decision + Consequences.
  • README: preserve existing installation, usage, and contributor sections. Add vision where it fits; detailed decisions go in ADRs.
  • Don't challenge the user's thinking unless they ask, or they're making a severe mistake.

Example

User request:

Extract project vision, decisions, or preferences into durable docs.

Limitations

  • Adapted from davidondrej/skills; verify local paths, tools, credentials, and agent features before acting.
  • For commands, remote access, scheduling, browser automation, or file-changing workflows, get explicit user approval and confirm the target environment first.
FAQ

What are READMEs and ADRs?

A README is a file that typically describes the project, how to use it, and how to contribute. ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) are short documents that record important decisions about the project's architecture or design.

Will the AI write everything by itself?

No, the AI will interview you, asking questions to understand your ideas. You provide the information, and the AI helps organize and write the documents.

Can the AI change existing documents?

Yes, the AI can update existing documents, but it always checks the current documents first and only makes changes based on your answers and decisions.

Details

Original description by the author

Interview the user to turn project vision and decisions into README and ADR documentation.

repo: sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Popularity

GitHub stars
48k
Ranking position
#2431
License
MIT
Updated
10/15/2026

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