convex-docs
Pull version-current Convex docs for the version this project uses — pin the installed version, fetch page-as-markdown or check node_modules types, freshness hierarchy — instead of writing a possibly-stale API from memory.
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npx skills add get-convex/agent-skills --skill convex-docs
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<! GENERATED from convex agents content/capabilities/convex docs.json — do not edit by hand.
Pull version current Convex docs
convex expert carries baked, plugin versioned knowledge — excellent for stable idioms, but it goes stale exactly where it hurts: a component that gained a new export, a CLI flag that changed, an API renamed between versions. This capability is the freshness discipline layered on top: pin to the project's real version, fetch the live page cheaply as markdown, and never write an unfamiliar API from memory when the current source is one fetch away.
Workflow
1. PIN the version: read the installed convex version ( node p "require('./node modules/convex/package.json').version" or package.json ), and the versions of any @convex dev/ components in play. The docs you trust must match THESE versions — version skew is the single largest source of wrong Convex code.
2. FRESHNESS HIERARCHY (cheapest correct first, the Supabase taught order):
(a) if a served docs tool / MCP search convex docs is available, use it (it returns version scoped, reranked answers sized to the context window);
(b) else fetch the specific docs page as MARKDOWN — request docs.convex.dev/<path and prefer a .md /markdown form when the site serves one (far fewer tokens than HTML), or the component's README at the pinned version;
(c) only then fall back to a general web search, and treat its version as unverified.
Do NOT skip to writing the API from memory when currentness is in doubt.
3. VERIFY against the installed package when it matters: for a component export you're unsure exists, check node modules/@convex dev/<x / (its package.json exports , its .d.ts ) — the installed types are the ground truth for THIS version, more authoritative than any doc.
4. USE the fetched fact narrowly: apply the current signature/flag, cite where it came from (page + version), and hand the actual code back to convex expert to write idiomatically. convex docs supplies the fresh fact; convex expert supplies the idiom.
5. On a version mismatch build error (an export/flag that 'should' exist but doesn't): treat it as a currentness question — pin the version, fetch the current API, and correct — rather than guessing a different spelling.
Rules
Never write an unfamiliar or possibly renamed Convex/component API from model memory when currentness is in doubt — pin the version and fetch the current source first.
The installed package's own exports / .d.ts in node modules is the ground truth for this version — more authoritative than any doc page.
Follow the freshness hierarchy: served docs tool → page as markdown / pinned README → general web (unverified) — cheapest correct first, fewest tokens.
Prefer markdown over HTML doc pages — far fewer tokens for the same content.
Supply the fresh FACT; hand idiomatic code back to convex expert. This is a freshness layer, not a replacement for the baked knowledge.
A version mismatch build error is a currentness question, not a spelling guess — re pin and re fetch.