# Check docs updated

> Use when code changed and the docs, runbooks or changelog may now be stale.

Checks whether repository docs, plans, examples, runbooks, changelogs, generated docs, or other durable written artifacts match a code or configuration change. Use when asked to verify or update docs, prevent documentation drift, or check whether a PR needs documentation changes.

## Facts

- Type: Agent skill
- Discipline: Engineering
- Author: Lachlan Donald (https://github.com/lox)
- Upstream: https://github.com/lox/agent-skills/blob/main/check-docs-updated/SKILL.md
- Source file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lox/agent-skills/main/check-docs-updated/SKILL.md (3759 bytes, sha256:469e69381a21dc4b1fa1ff09334694450731660f196f36a5cdc06fbdab53a91f)
- Licence: none declared by the repo
- Upstream copy last changed: 2026-09-17
- Status: listed, not yet ruled on by the curator

## Use it

I want to use the Check docs updated skill by Lachlan Donald.
This is what it does, in the author's own words: Checks whether repository docs, plans, examples, runbooks, changelogs, generated docs, or other durable written artifacts match a code or configuration change. Use when asked to verify or update docs, prevent documentation drift, or check whether a PR needs documentation changes.
Download the whole folder at https://github.com/lox/agent-skills/tree/main/check-docs-updated, SKILL.md and every file beside it, into your skills directory: ~/.claude/skills/check-docs-updated/ for Claude Code, ~/.agents/skills/check-docs-updated/ for Codex, ~/.cursor/skills/check-docs-updated/ for Cursor. Get it from the author's repo, not from startupskills.dev.
Then tell me the path you installed it to and how to invoke it.

Nothing here is vendored: install from the author's repo. This file carries none of the author's file.

## Links

- Page: https://startupskills.dev/lox/check-docs-updated
- Author: https://startupskills.dev/lox
- Index: https://startupskills.dev/llms.txt

## The file

Not reproduced here: the repo does not license republication. Read it on the author's GitHub:
https://github.com/lox/agent-skills/blob/main/check-docs-updated/SKILL.md