# Literate Guide

> Create a narrative guide to a codebase or feature in the style of Knuth's Literate Programming —…

Create a narrative guide to a codebase or feature in the style of Knuth's Literate Programming — code and prose interwoven as a single essay, ordered for human understanding rather than compiler needs. Use when the user asks to 'explain this codebase as a story', 'write a literate guide', 'create a narrative walkthrough', 'tell the story of this code', 'Knuth-style documentation', 'weave a guide for this feature', or when they want deep, readable documentation that treats the program as literature. Also trigger when someone wants a document that a thoughtful reader could follow from start to finish and come away understanding both WHAT the code does and WHY every design choice was made.

- Page: https://ss33.ai/skills/petekp/literate-guide-27037562003
- Publisher: petekp
- Category: [Software Development](https://ss33.ai/skills/category/software-development-t44z8z) › [Developer docs & tooling](https://ss33.ai/skills/category/software-development-t44z8z/developer-docs-and-tooling-nich6w)
- Source: https://github.com/petekp/agent-skills/blob/0f90f074fd018ffbd7fab9d96d65fee23d44295d/skills/literate-guide/SKILL.md

## Skill

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