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Library-documentation lookup methodology — API behavior, version-specific changes, idiomatic usage, or why production diverges from docs — independent of which library. Distills the generic navigation moves shared across libraries — classify the question before searching (changelog vs API reference vs idiom vs known-bug), check llms.txt before scraping HTML, pin to the user's version before reading reference pages, read changelog first for "did X change" questions, treat examples/ dirs as truth for idioms, and fall back to GitHub issues / status page / Discord when docs match but reality doesn't. Per-library topography lives in the shared /knowledge/libraries/ graph as thin reference data, alongside code-distill's section. Triggers on "where in <library> docs", "look this up in <library>", "did <library> change X", "docs say X but code does Y", and any prompt where the next move is to consult a library's official documentation.

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# Docs Search — Navigation Methodology for Official Library Documentation

Methodology distillation of the generic moves an agent makes when reaching for a library's official documentation. Not a per-library skill — one skill plus a thin per-library record in the shared knowledge graph ([`/knowledge/libraries/`](../../../knowledge/)), because 90% of the work is the same regardless of which library you're searching.

This is the **navigation layer** that sits next to [`library-reference-distillation`](../library-reference-distillation/SKILL.md). That skill is for *authoring* a full library-ref rule pack when you have time to extract idioms. This skill is for *just looking something up* when you don't — a lighter-weight, faster-to-author alternative whose unit of growth is a ~30-line topography record, not a full rule pack.

## When to Apply

Use this skill when:

- An agent needs a specific answer from a library's official documentation and "search the docs" is the next move
- The user asks "where do I find X in `<library>` docs?" or "did `<library>` change Y recently?"
- The documentation appears to match the situation but production behavior diverges
- The agent is about to Google a library question and would benefit from going to the library's own site search, llms.txt, or changelog first
- A library has been used before and a topography record exists in `registry/` — read it before navigating