check-the-docs

check-the-docs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from buildmoonshot/skillpacks. It costs 71 tokens per session (424 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reminder to confirm the current documentation and installed version before calling an external library, framework, software development kit, or API.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps check API signatures, dependency versions, official references, and existing working examples before adding or changing integrations.
Why use it?
It prevents plausible but incorrect method names, parameters, and usage patterns from causing errors.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/buildmoonshot/skillpacks/check-the-docs
Any agent
npx skills add buildmoonshot/skillpacks --skill check-the-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/buildmoonshot/skillpacks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 424 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00071 $0.00424
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00212
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00042

Measured 3d ago against content hash c44e4e2dec99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-the-docs 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 3d 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.

skills/engineering/intermediate/check-the-docs/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Check the Docs

Before calling into an external library or API, confirm the API is real and current — do not code it from memory and hope.

When to stop and check

  • You're reaching for a method, option, or parameter and you're not certain it exists with that exact name/shape.
  • The library has had major version changes (the API you remember may be gone).
  • It's niche or fast-moving — small libraries and recent releases are where memory is least reliable.
  • The user reported an error that looks like a wrong signature (X is not a function, unexpected argument).

What to do

  1. Verify the signature against current documentation, the installed version's types/source, or an official reference — not your recollection.
  2. Check the installed version. Read package.json / lockfile / requirements.txt. Match the docs to that version, not the latest.
  3. Prefer the project's existing usage. If the codebase already calls this library, copy that real, working pattern over anything you'd reconstruct from memory.

When you can't verify

Say so, and mark the call as unverified: "I used client.search(...) from memory — confirm this matches your installed version, as I couldn't check the docs." An honest flag beats a confident hallucination.

Why this matters

Hallucinated API calls are the classic agent failure: confident, plausible, and completely wrong — array.removeWhere(), a timeout option that doesn't exist, a renamed method from three versions ago. They cost a debugging session to track down. Thirty seconds of checking prevents them.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 30 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A c44e4e2dec99

Subscribe to this mod's changes

check-the-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository buildmoonshot/skillpacks (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 424 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. 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.

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