| name | claude-code-docs |
| description | Local mirror of Anthropic Claude Code product documentation (code.claude.com/docs): CLI, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP, subagents, AGENTS.md, slash commands, output styles, sandboxing, permissions, Agent SDK (TypeScript and Python), Claude Desktop, Slack, Chrome, Web, monitoring and usage, the Claude Code changelog, and weekly "What's New" digests. Use whenever the user asks how Claude Code behaves, how to install or configure Claude Code, or what a Claude Code flag, hook, slash command, environment variable, or feature does. Read this skill's references/ before generic web search for Claude Code product questions. Do NOT use for OpenAI Codex, Cursor, general Anthropic API, Claude.ai consumer, or other coding agents. |
Claude Code Docs
Local mirror of Anthropic Claude Code documentation, kept fresh by a 3-hour GitHub Action. The cleaned Markdown lives in references/; the auto-generated topic list lives in references/INDEX.md; the per-file manifest with upstream URLs lives in references/docs_manifest.json.
Scope
Use this skill for Claude Code-specific product and configuration questions, including CLI behavior, settings, slash commands, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP, subagents, AGENTS.md, output styles, sandboxing, permissions, environment variables, monitoring and usage, Claude Desktop, Slack, Chrome, Web, Agent SDK, and release notes. If the question is about OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Claude.ai consumer features, the general Anthropic API, or another non-Claude-Code product, this skill does not apply.
Workflow
- If the user supplied a topic, normalize it to a slug:
- lowercase, strip leading
/docs/en/, strip surrounding slashes
- join nested segments with
__ (e.g. agent sdk hooks -> agent-sdk__hooks, whats new 2026 w19 -> whats-new__2026-w19)
- If
references/<slug>.md exists, read that file directly. Do NOT grep the whole references/ tree first - the index plus targeted reads is faster and uses less context.
- If no exact match, read
references/INDEX.md and pick the closest topic. If still ambiguous, list the candidates and ask.
- If the user supplied no topic, read
references/INDEX.md and present the available topics.
Answer format
- Lead with a direct answer to the user's question grounded in the file you read.
- Quote short snippets (commands, config keys) when they appear verbatim in the doc.
- End with
Source: <upstream URL> using the original_url from the file frontmatter or references/docs_manifest.json.
Freshness and fallback
The mirror is refreshed every 3 hours by upstream CI. If the local content looks stale, contradicted by the user, or empty:
- Suggest the user run
npx skills update claude-code-docs.
- Cross-check the canonical URL via
original_url in references/docs_manifest.json and offer it as a follow-up source.
- If a specific page failed MDX cleaning, the unmodified source is preserved at
references/_raw/<slug>.md -- read that as a fallback.
Examples
| Invocation | Reads |
|---|
$claude-code-docs hooks / /claude-code-docs hooks | references/hooks.md |
$claude-code-docs mcp | references/mcp.md |
$claude-code-docs agent sdk hooks | references/agent-sdk__hooks.md |
$claude-code-docs cli reference | references/cli-reference.md |
$claude-code-docs changelog | references/changelog.md |
$claude-code-docs (no argument) | references/INDEX.md |
