Refresh Provider Documentation

Verify what agentconfig.org publishes against what providers actually document, and cite a primary source for every claim.

The site's credibility rests on being right about file paths, lifecycle events, and precedence rules that change without notice. This skill exists so that no provider panel, comparison row, or tutorial is expanded on memory.

The split this skill enforces

Reading documentation is a judgment task. Deciding whether the site is wrong is not.

Never skip the middle two steps by guessing, and never hand-write a finding. If a claim cannot be traced to a retrieved snapshot, it does not get recorded.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

• A provider's configuration location, hook events, permissions, or precedence rules need checking against current documentation.
• A new provider is being considered for the compatibility index.
• The scheduled refresh runs and needs an evidence report.
• Someone asks which primary source backs a published claim.

Do not use this skill to edit content. It produces evidence and findings; the edits belong to add-primitive, add-provider, and generate-llms.

Workflow

1. Retrieve the sources

bun .github/skills/refresh-provider-docs/scripts/provider-docs.ts fetch --allow-network
bun .github/skills/refresh-provider-docs/scripts/provider-docs.ts fetch --allow-network --provider claude

Retrieval requires --allow-network every time. Nothing in this skill runs during an ordinary site build, and the site never depends on network access to render.

Snapshots and a manifest.json are written to a fresh run-specific directory outside the repository, printed at the end of the run. Each run gets its own directory so a partial or provider-scoped retrieval can never leave older snapshots beside the new manifest, where they would be read back as current evidence. Each snapshot carries its source id, canonical URL, requested URL, final URL, content type, authority, and retrieval timestamp in a header comment. Responses are limited to 512 KB, non-document content types fail closed, and unexpected redirect targets are rejected. An unknown --provider value fails closed rather than reporting an empty run as a success. Scheduled runs add --tracked-only so candidate providers cannot silently enter the compatibility refresh. If any source fails, the command exits non-zero: fix or retire the registry entry rather than publishing a claim you could not retrieve.

2. Read the snapshots and write claims

Read the retrieved files. For each thing the site asserts, or should assert, record a claim in a JSON array:

{
  "id": "copilot.hooks.location",
  "provider": "copilot",
  "primitive": "hooks",
  "aspect": "location",
  "value": [".github/hooks/*.json", "~/.copilot/hooks/*.json"],
  "sourceId": "copilot.about-hooks",
  "sourceUrl": "https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/agents/hooks",
  "sourceAuthority": "primary",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-08-25",
  "notes": "Repository hooks apply to any Copilot agent; personal hooks apply to Copilot CLI."
}

Rules that keep claims honest:

• Record what the document says, not what the site already says. Reading the site first biases extraction.
• One claim per provider, primitive, and aspect. If two official pages disagree, record both and let the comparison mark it ambiguous.
• Quote paths exactly, including globs and extensions. .mdc and .md are different answers.
• Use support: "none" only when documentation states the capability is unavailable, never when documentation is merely silent.
• Leave the claim out when the documentation is unclear. Silence is a finding; a guess is a defect.

See references/NORMALIZATION.md for the aspect vocabulary and worked examples.

3. Validate, compare, and report

S=.github/skills/refresh-provider-docs
bun $S/scripts/provider-docs.ts validate claims.json --manifest manifest.json --baseline baseline-claims.json
bun $S/scripts/provider-docs.ts compare claims.json --manifest manifest.json --baseline baseline-claims.json --json findings.json
bun $S/scripts/provider-docs.ts report claims.json --manifest manifest.json --baseline baseline-claims.json --out report.md

The manifest and baseline flags are blocking evidence gates. Every claim source must be present and successful in the exact fetch manifest, its retrieval date must match that manifest entry, and every committed baseline claim ID must remain in the new claim set. Missing or truncated evidence exits 1; it can never look like a clean refresh.

Each finding carries one of four statuses:

Exit codes: 0 clean, 1 fail-closed error, 2 findings require action. Exit 2 means any finding carries an action other than none, including an unsupported finding that still requires a site edit, so a scheduled refresh cannot miss one. The scheduled refresh keys off exit code 2.

4. Act on the findings

Apply update-site-data findings to site/src/data/primitives.ts only, then regenerate published files with the generate-llms skill. site/src/data/comparison.ts and site/src/data/providerProfiles.ts compute their values from primitives.ts at import time, so hand-editing them there would duplicate the same fact in two places and reintroduce the drift this derivation was built to eliminate — the edit belongs in primitives.ts alone.

Treat extend-site-model findings as content design rather than a data edit. They mean the documented behavior has no home in the current taxonomy.

Re-run the comparison after editing so the report reflects the change.

The scheduled workflow is evidence-only. It may update only the weekly claims, findings, and report files and may open only a draft pull request. It cannot edit primitives.ts, generated content, the registry, skills, or workflows. A person reviews the evidence and applies factual site changes in a separate change.

Fail-Closed Rules

The comparison refuses to guess. It returns ambiguous and asks for a person when:

• Two official sources disagree about the same fact.
• The only support for a claim is a secondary source.
• The cited source is not in the registry, belongs to another provider, or does not match the registered URL.
• The evidence is older than the registry's freshness limit.
• The site contradicts itself between what it publishes and any other indexed site data source (a defense against drift, even though comparison.ts is now derived from primitives.ts and should not diverge in normal operation).

An empty claim set, a missing baseline claim ID, a claim not bound to the exact successful manifest entry, or a mismatched retrieval date is treated as a failed retrieval, not a clean run.

The Source Registry

data/sources.json holds every documentation entry point, its topic, and its authority. Primary means the provider's own documentation or source repository. Secondary means anything else, must carry a note justifying its use, and can never confirm a claim on its own.

bun .github/skills/refresh-provider-docs/scripts/provider-docs.ts sources
bun .github/skills/refresh-provider-docs/scripts/provider-docs.ts sources --check-urls --allow-network

Run the URL check before trusting a refresh; a silently moved documentation page is the most common way published claims go stale. See references/SOURCE-REGISTRY.md for the authority policy and how to add a provider.

Validation

cd .github/skills/refresh-provider-docs && bun test

bun test skips hidden directories when invoked from the repository root, so run it from the skill directory.

The suite covers schema validation, every fail-closed path, report integrity, registry integrity, the network opt-in, and activation cases. evals/trigger-queries.json records when this skill should and should not activate.

Worked Example

reports/2026-08-25-claims.json and reports/2026-08-25-report.md are a real run against the live site. Read them before your first refresh: they show the claim format, the four statuses, and the kind of drift this process is meant to catch.

Related Skills

• add-provider adds a verified provider to the comparison system.
• add-primitive edits primitive data once a finding says what to change.
• generate-llms regenerates published machine-readable files after data edits.