verify-docs-findablelisted
Install: claude install-skill zernie/vigiles
# verify-docs-findable — cold-read the docs with fresh eyes
The insight this operationalizes: **complete ≠ findable.** An index that lists every doc
(and even passes a "every doc is indexed" check) can still make a reader take 5 hops and
fall back to source code to answer a basic question. The only honest test is to give the
question to someone who has never seen the repo and watch how far they get **from the docs
alone.** A fresh cheap agent is that someone.
## Why HAIKU, and why "docs only"
- **Haiku (a small, cheap model), fresh (no session context).** The point is a naive cold
reader, NOT a clever one. A strong model with your context will grep the source, reason
around gaps, and _hide_ the doc problem. Haiku, told to use only the docs, exposes it.
- **"Use ONLY the docs, start at the index."** The moment a verifier has to open source code
to answer, the docs have failed — that's the signal. Steps-from-index is the metric.
## Procedure
### 1. Get the questions (3–8)
Test the **recurring, load-bearing, and mis-stated** questions — the ones that actually cost
time. Sources, in order:
- What the user (or you) just got confused about this session — the highest-signal source.
- The "canonical answers" the docs _claim_ to provide (a docs corpus usually has ~5–8 facts
it exists to convey; test those).
- If none given: ask the user for the questions, or infer them from the corpus's top-level
topics. Don't invent trivia — test what a real contributor needs.
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