Skilldocs

About Skilldocs

Skilldocs is a collaborative markdown editor that positions itself as "Figma for markdown." It launched this week on Product Hunt and is currently available as a free tool. The product targets teams who write documentation files together and then hand those documents back to AI coding agents for implementation.

Review

Skilldocs emerged from a specific workflow problem: collaborating on .md files usually means pasting them into a separate tool or screensharing a local editor. The maker's approach combines features from several recognized products, including HackMD's mono viewer, Figma's live cursors, Google Docs' real-time highlighting, and Bear's WYSIWYG markdown editor. After a collaboration session, the tool generates a diff and comment thread that users can copy directly into their coding agent.

Key Features

• Multiplayer editing with real-time cursor presence and inline comments, similar to Figma's collaboration model.
• A follow feature lets you click a teammate's avatar to track their view as they move tasks, including across different documents.
• Command-click creates multiple text carets for editing several lines at once, a pattern borrowed from Sublime.
• The editor renders markdown as you type, styled after Bear's WYSIWYG approach, while keeping the document in plain .md format.
• Document importing works through .md file drop, pasted markdown, GitHub imports, or a local MCP server connection. Export options include copying the current document, the diff, or the comment thread.

Pricing and Value

The product is currently free during its launch week, with no other pricing tiers announced. It runs on Cloudflare Durable Objects for the collaboration backend, with the full application hosted on Vercel. The maker's launch post notes that the tool is built with a workflow that uses an AI coding agent (Claude Code) and plans for future feedback-based iterations, though nothing about paid plans or enterprise licensing appears in the current documentation.

Pros

• The collaboration model solves a real gap in markdown workflows: real-time co-presence and a clean copy-paste path back to coding agents.
• Import and export methods cover multiple use cases, from local file drops to GitHub and MCP-based access for scripted work.
• The Figma-style following mechanism gives a more tactile feel than screen-sharing, with lower network overhead.
• Multi-caret editing works well for broad changes across a document.
• Its reliance on Cloudflare Durable Objects and Vercel suggests low infrastructure overhead for a small team deployment, though these details are not exposed to non-technical users.

Cons

• Version control and source control are not yet implemented, as the creator has asked for community feedback around "proper team source control" and its integration with git branches or diffs.
• The MCP server installation instructions require a local copy of the repository, which can be an impediment for users who prefer a managed installation with no repository check-out step.
• Skilldocs does not currently fit certain enterprise workflows where formal version history, approval gates, or full git integration with pull requests are required before documents go back to agents; it is better suited to one-off documented sessions instead.

Ideal use cases: collaborative drafting sessions where a team needs to edit one markdown file synchronously, then hand the result plus discussion to an AI agent for code. And because the tool is free and browser-based, it risks very little for teams experimenting with real-time .md workflows. Without source control, though, it's not the place to manage long-lived, versioned skill repositories.

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