A strict extract-then-write rule for docs skills
Longjumping-Koala396 · reddit · 2026-07-20
The author shares a design pattern that made their documentation-generating skill work reliably: it is never allowed to write docs directly from its memory of a long conversation.
Instead, the flow is:
- extract facts into a scratch inventory every time,
- diff that inventory against required doc fields,
- ask only about critical missing pieces, batched in groups of at most three,
- write from the inventory,
- flag minor assumptions inline.
They say this dramatically reduced hallucinated or drifted facts across generated files. The post also mentions a 10-phase framework for moving from idea to build-ready roadmap, and invites critique because the system is still being iterated.
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