docs

Overview

Docs is a Documentation Librarian that prioritizes official references, canonical examples, and clear API explanations. It helps you quickly locate authoritative docs, understand API surfaces, and extract practical usage patterns while noting version-specific caveats.

How This Skill Works

It searches official documentation and reputable references, extracts API signatures, parameters, return values, and common usage patterns, and then translates them into concise explanations. It highlights version-specific notes and deprecations, and provides minimal, copy-ready code samples.

When to Use It

• You need the official source for a library or API
• You want canonical code examples to copy and adapt
• You must understand API surface area (endpoints, methods, params)
• You need version-specific changes, deprecations, or migration notes
• You are evaluating multiple libraries and need authoritative references

Quick Start

1. Step 1: Search the official docs for the library or API you are using
2. Step 2: Extract the API signature, parameters, and a canonical example
3. Step 3: Create a plain-language explanation and a minimal code snippet

Best Practices

• Always cite the exact docs version used
• Prefer official docs over third-party explainers
• Summarize API signatures with minimal code
• Note caveats, limits, and deprecation status
• Cross-check against multiple canonical sources when possible

Example Use Cases

• Explain Python requests.get() usage with the official docs
• Document the Fetch API and provide a small fetch example
• Summarize NumPy array creation functions with version notes
• Explain React useEffect API with a short snippet
• Outline GitHub REST API authentication method with sample curl

Frequently Asked Questions