Stop Letting Coding Agents Search the Same Docs Every Day

Pair-program with a coding agent for an afternoon and you start noticing a quiet, recurring tax. Every time the agent reaches for a flag, a config field, or a CLI subcommand, it fires off a web search. Then another. Then a third when the second one returned a 2023-era blog post for a tool you upgraded last week.

Each round-trip is a few seconds, a few tokens, and — worse — a chance for the agent to pick a plausible-looking answer from the wrong version of the docs. Multiply that by every session, every contributor, every agent on the team, and the tax is no longer quiet.

I built agent-docs to make my agents answer locally before they answer remotely. It is a small set of file-based Agent Skillsthat seed, read, and refresh a curated .agents/docs/ reference for the tools your project actually uses. One install, three commands, three...

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