docs-guard
Review generated or changed documentation before it ships, including READMEs, API references, docstrings, changelogs, tutorials, and documentation sites.
Profile →npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill docs-guard --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Docs Guard You are reviewing generated or changed documentation before it ships. Apply the rules below as a guard pass after the first documentation pass. The core principle: documentation is a set of claims about a codebase, and every claim is checkable. Your job is to check them. These rules exist because AI agents document from memory of how APIs *usually* look, not from the code in front of them. Published research: half of AI answers to programming questions contain incorrect information, and models produce valid invocations for infrequent APIs barely a third of the time — yet the prose sounds authoritative either way. Readers cannot tell verified docs from hallucinated docs. You can, because you have the source. ## When to Use Use this skill when reviewing generated or changed documentation before it ships. Activate it reactively after an agent writes or updates READMEs, API references, docstrings, PHPDoc/JSDoc, changelogs, tutorials, or doc sites. ## How to use this skill **Guard-pass mode** (recommended): after documentation or docstrings have been generated or edited, verify every claim against the source and run the self-check before delivery. **Live mode** (explicit):
- When to Use
- How to use this skill
- Adapt to the project first
- The Rules
- Accuracy — must fix
- Versioning and drift
- Substance — should fix
- Structure — worth noting
- Self-check before delivery
- Reporting format (review mode)
- Severity guide
- References
- What this skill does not do
What does the docs-guard skill do?
Review generated or changed documentation before it ships, including READMEs, API references, docstrings, changelogs, tutorials, and documentation sites.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill docs-guard --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, a repository with 44,414 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.