What is read-the-docs-first?

A documentation-first rule for coding agents working with third-party APIs, packages, services, or changing products. It makes the agent check current official documentation and primary sources before relying on memory.

Use it when adding or debugging integrations, choosing package usage, or answering questions about current provider behavior.

It reduces mistakes caused by outdated knowledge, changed APIs, or incorrect assumptions about how an external service works.

read-the-docs-first — Plugin for Claude Code by patrickdappollonio

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill cost 107 tokens a session between them.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

read-the-docs-first scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/read-the-docs-first/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "read-the-docs-first",
  "description": "Docs-first discipline for anything involving third-party APIs, packages, providers, or fast-moving product behavior — the agent web-searches for current official docs and reads primary sources before assuming from memory, grounding answers in what the docs actually say.",
  "version": "1.0.1",
  "author": {
    "name": "Patrick D'appollonio",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/tree/main/plugins/read-the-docs-first",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["documentation", "docs-first", "api-drift", "web-search", "grounding", "official-docs"]
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 107 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Skill read-the-docs-first A 107 tokens

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 13 lines scan A b1018ea38eb8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

read-the-docs-first is a plugin published in the GitHub repository patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Research

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