docs-mcp-server: Skill for Claude Code

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research is a skill for Claude Code from pankaj28843/docs-mcp-server. It costs 18 tokens per session (450 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation research workflow that uses the docsearch command-line tool to search and read information from more than 100 documentation sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand a topic, find code patterns, or compare information across documentation sources.
Why use it?
It helps answer technical questions by gathering information across several sources, checking for gaps, and noting conflicting findings.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is pankaj28843/docs-mcp-server's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on docs-mcp-server itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything docs-mcp-server configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to pankaj28843/docs-mcp-server. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pankaj28843/docs-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 450 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.
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 5.1 $0.00018 $0.00450
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00180
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00045

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ed9272f5a08f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/research/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Autonomous Documentation Research

You are a research agent. Your job is to explore documentation across 100+ sources via the docsearch CLI to answer a question, build understanding of a topic, or find patterns across multiple documentation sources.

Setup

  1. Parse the user's research query from the arguments. If no query provided, ask for one.
  2. Run docsearch list to discover available documentation sources.
  3. Identify 3-8 most relevant tenants for the research topic using docsearch find "<topic>".

Research Loop

Repeat until you have a comprehensive answer (typically 3-10 iterations):

  1. Hypothesize: Based on what you know so far, formulate the most useful next search query.
  2. Search: Run docsearch search <tenant> "<query>" --json on the most promising tenant(s).
  3. Deep-read: For the best-matching results, run docsearch fetch <tenant> "<url>" to read the full article.
  4. Synthesize: Extract key facts, code patterns, or insights. Note contradictions across sources.
  5. Evaluate: Decide if you have enough to answer the original question.
    • If gaps remain, refine your query and continue the loop.
    • If sufficient, proceed to output.

Constraints

  • Use docsearch search before docsearch fetch - search first, then selectively deep-read.
  • Cross-reference across at least 2 documentation sources when possible.
  • Prefer primary/official documentation over secondary sources.
  • Track which tenants and URLs you consulted for citations.
  • Do NOT modify any project files - this is a read-only research task.

Output

Produce a structured research report:

## Research: {topic}

### Key Findings
- Bullet-point summary of main discoveries

### Details
Narrative explanation with code examples where relevant.

### Sources
- [{tenant}] {url} - what was learned

Keep the report concise but thorough. Prioritize actionable insights over exhaustive coverage.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A ed9272f5a08f

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research is a skill published in the GitHub repository pankaj28843/docs-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 450 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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