Claude Code Documentation

Answer questions about Claude Code from the official documentation, fetched at the moment you need it. Do not answer from memory: this product ships changes weekly, and a confidently wrong answer about a hook event or a manifest field costs more than a fetch.

How to Use

Fetch the page that covers the question with WebFetch. Start from the overview only if you need to find your way around; otherwise go straight to the relevant page.

Topic	URL
Overview / index	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview
Skills	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills
Hooks — guide	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks-guide
Hooks — full reference	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks
Subagents	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents
MCP	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp
Plugins — guide	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins
Plugins — reference	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins-reference
Plugin marketplaces	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-marketplaces
Slash commands	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/slash-commands
Settings	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings
CLI reference	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cli-reference

If a URL 404s, the docs have been reorganised — fetch the overview and follow its navigation rather than guessing a new path.

Verify against the live CLI where you can. For anything about plugins, hooks or settings, the installed binary is a second source of truth and it cannot be out of date:

claude plugin validate <path>    # what the schema actually accepts, warnings included
claude plugin --help             # current subcommands
claude --help                    # flags

When the docs and the CLI disagree, trust the CLI and say so in your answer.

When to Use

• Someone asks "how do I…" about a Claude Code feature
• You are about to write a hook, skill, subagent, plugin manifest or settings block
• You need to check whether a field, event or flag actually exists
• Something behaves differently than expected and you need the spec, not a guess

Offline

WebFetch needs network access. With none, say that you are answering from memory and that the spec should be re-checked — do not present a remembered field list as current.

If you want a local copy for offline work, scripts/scrape_claude_code_docs.py in this repo mirrors the docs into docs/claude-code/ for personal use. That mirror is deliberately not committed or shipped: it is Anthropic's content, and a stale local copy is exactly how wrong answers get confident.