Meta Docs

Objective

• Separate metadata search from body reads to minimize context usage.
• Keep the docs knowledge base consistent with structured updates and logs.

Directory and Metadata Rules

• All documents live under docs/. Directory structure is not enforced.
• Avoid docs/{TYPE} as a convention; do not create directories purely by type.
• Classification is defined by the type metadata (single string).
• Recommended types: design, spec, guide, log, reference, decision, research, meeting, incident, runbook, roadmap, report, checklist, retro, note

Every document must include YAML frontmatter:

---
title: "Document title"
created: YYYY-MM-DD
updated: YYYY-MM-DD
author: "name <email>"
editors: ["name <email>"]
type: "design"
tags: ["ai", "troubleshooting", "gitlab"]
history:
  - "YYYY-MM-DD name <email>: initial entry"
  - "YYYY-MM-DD name <email>: change summary"
---

• author/editors should use Git user info (user.name, user.email). If unavailable, fall back to the system username.

Prerequisites

This skill assumes uv for execution.

# Install uv if needed
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Recommended execution style:

uv run --project skills/meta-docs skills/meta-docs/doc_manager.py <command> [options]

Use --root when the project root differs from the current working directory. You can place --root before or after the subcommand.

Mandatory Behavior Rules

1. Context discipline: never use cat, grep, or find to locate docs; always run search first.
2. Selective reads: choose the minimal set of files from search results and read only those.
3. Active maintenance: after code or architecture changes, always call update.
4. Error capitalization: after resolving complex bugs, create a troubleshooting log with create.

Commands

1) search

• Input: --tags "keyword", --type "design", --dir "path" (optional)
• Behavior: parse only YAML frontmatter and output matching docs as a JSON array

Example:

uv run --project skills/meta-docs skills/meta-docs/doc_manager.py search --tags "ai troubleshooting" --type "incident" --dir "team"

2) read

• Input: --path "docs/target.md"
• Behavior: return only the document body (frontmatter excluded)

Example:

uv run --project skills/meta-docs skills/meta-docs/doc_manager.py read --path "docs/20260312-meta-docs-intro.md"

3) update

• Input: --path "..." --log "change summary"
• Behavior: update updated, append history as YYYY-MM-DD name <email>: log
• If author is missing, it is auto-filled with the current editor
• The current editor is appended to editors

Example:

uv run --project skills/meta-docs skills/meta-docs/doc_manager.py update --path "docs/20260312-meta-docs-intro.md" --log "architecture updates"

4) create

• Input: --title "..." --tags "..." --content "..." [--type "log"]
• Behavior: create YYYYMMDD-{TITLE}.md under docs/ (type defaults to log, override with --type)
• Title rule: use English titles so filename slugs stay within lowercase a-z, digits, -, and _
• author/editors prefer Git user info and fall back to system username

Example:

uv run --project skills/meta-docs skills/meta-docs/doc_manager.py create --title "redis-timeout" --tags "infra troubleshooting" --content "Root cause and fix" --type "incident"