Claude Code Docs

Comprehensive, auto-updating archive of everything Anthropic publishes for building with Claude. 2,900+ docs from 11 sources.

Clone this repo and point Claude Code at it. Every doc, tutorial, cookbook, skill, and engineering post Anthropic has published -- searchable, version- controlled, and offline.

Install

git clone https://github.com/thevibeworks/claude-code-docs
cd claude-code-docs

Then ask Claude Code anything:

claude "how does the agent loop work?"
claude "show me the MCP spec for tool annotations"
claude "what did the 'Building Effective Agents' post recommend?"
claude "how do I set up hooks in the Agent SDK?"

Content

Source	Section	Files	What
code.claude.com	--section claude-code	141	Claude Code + Agent SDK docs
platform.claude.com	--section api	1,541	API reference, build guides
modelcontextprotocol.io	--section mcp	203	MCP spec, SDKs, governance
anthropic.com	--section engineering	25	"Building Effective Agents", context engineering, tool use
anthropic.com	--section research	118	Research papers
anthropic.com	--section news	~76	Model releases, announcements
github.com/anthropics	--section github	718	Cookbooks, skills, plugins, courses, SDK docs
support.claude.com	--section support	343	Help articles

content/
  en/docs/claude-code/   Claude Code + Agent SDK
  en/api/                API reference (1,500+ endpoints)
  en/build-with-claude/  Platform features
  en/agents-and-tools/   Tool use, agent skills
  en/manage-claude/      Admin, billing, managed agents
  mcp/                   MCP protocol spec + community
  blog/
    engineering/         Building Effective Agents, context engineering, ...
    research/            Research papers
    news/                Model releases
  github/
    cookbooks/           164 recipes + notebooks
    skills/              90 official Agent Skills
    plugins-official/    266 plugin docs
    courses/             80 prompt engineering notebooks
    quickstarts/         Deployable app starters
    code-action/         GitHub Actions for Claude Code
    sdk-python/          Python SDK reference
    sdk-typescript/      TypeScript SDK reference
  support/               343 help articles

Fetching

Auto-updates every 6 hours via GitHub Actions. To fetch manually:

# Requires: uv (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/)
uv run scripts/fetcher.py                    # Fetch everything (~3 min)
uv run scripts/fetcher.py --section mcp      # MCP spec only
uv run scripts/fetcher.py --section github   # GitHub repos only
uv run scripts/fetcher.py --incremental      # Skip existing files
uv run scripts/fetcher.py --tree             # Show all sources + counts
uv run scripts/fetcher.py --discover         # Probe domains for new sources

GitHub repo fetching needs GITHUB_TOKEN or GH_TOKEN in the environment. Blog, research, and support articles use jina.ai for HTML-to-markdown conversion (rate-limited at ~10 req/s).

See sources.json for the complete machine-readable source registry.

Source Discovery

The fetcher doesn't just download from hardcoded URLs. --discover probes every known Anthropic domain for robots.txt, sitemap.xml, llms.txt, and llms-full.txt, then compares against what we already archive.

Known domains: anthropic.com, platform.claude.com, code.claude.com, support.claude.com, modelcontextprotocol.io, claude.ai, claude.com

Run --discover periodically to catch new sources before they go stale.

Automation

Two GitHub Actions workflows power this repo:

fetch-claude-docs.yml -- Scheduled every 6 hours. Runs the fetcher, then hands the diff to Claude Code (via claude-code-action) which decides: ignore noise, commit minor fixes directly, or create a PR for meaningful changes. Sends push notifications via barkme for PRs.

claude-review.yml -- Triggered on PRs and @claude mentions. Reviews changes, merges routine updates, creates tracking issues for version bumps, and alerts humans only for breaking changes.

Contributing

PRs welcome. The fetcher is a single Python file (scripts/fetcher.py) with no framework dependencies beyond aiohttp and aiofiles.

To add a new source:

1. Add the source definition to sources.json
2. Add the fetch logic to scripts/fetcher.py
3. Run uv run scripts/fetcher.py --section <name> to test
4. Update --section choices in the CLI

Disclaimer

Unofficial mirror for educational and development purposes. Documentation content is sourced from Anthropic's public sites. For official docs, visit code.claude.com and platform.claude.com. Repository code from anthropics/claude-code. Redistribution should comply with Anthropic's terms.

License

MIT