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docs-guard

Review generated or changed documentation before it ships — READMEs, API references, docstrings, PHPDoc/JSDoc, changelogs, tutorials, and doc sites. Best used reactively after an agent writes or edits docs, after code changes documented behavior, or before publishing docs. Use when the user says 'review the docs', 'is this documentation accurate', 'update the docs', 'write a README', 'document this API', 'add a docstring', or 'add a changelog entry'. Core job: verify every referenced function, flag, endpoint, config key, and code sample against the source; catch docs-vs-code drift; strip filler and unverifiable claims. DO NOT USE for production code review (use clean-code-guard), test review (use test-guard), marketing copy or blog posts, prose style editing of non-technical writing, or documentation site theming.

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# 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.

## 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 the user invokes this skill before writing docs, verify before you write — read the actual implementation, then document what it does. Run the self-check before delivery.

**Review mode** (the user asks you to review, audit, or fact-check docs): walk [references/review-checklist.md](references/review-checklist.md) against the target docs and produce a findings report with file:line evidence. Do not rewrite in review mode unless asked.
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