Docs Grounding Verifier

by microsoft

Docs Grounding Verifier is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in apm.

3.5K stars324 forkson microsoft/apmAdded 2026/08/16+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/15

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ai-agentsclaude-codecodex-clicontext-engineeringgithub-copilotpackage-managerprompt-engineering

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Install Docs Grounding Verifier

Copy Docs Grounding Verifier into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/apm/tree/main/.agents/skills/docs-grounding-verifier ~/.claude/skills/docs-grounding-verifier

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/apm.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/docs-grounding-verifier/SKILL.md in microsoft/apm
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/docs-grounding-verifier
Collection: One of 21 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Docs Grounding Verifier does

Docs Grounding Verifier verifies claim-level grounding of documentation pages against source code, returning per-claim verdicts with file:line evidence citations. Use it when you need to fact-check specific pages for accuracy, not for whole-corpus audits or PR triage.

Docs Grounding Verifier is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Docs Grounding Verifier comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, codex-cli, context-engineering and github-copilot.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

docs-grounding-verifier

CLAIM-LEVEL grounding verification. Adapts the RAGAS faithfulness-eval pattern (proven in RAG literature) to docs/code instead of generated- answers/retrieved-context. Source code is the ground truth; docs paragraphs are the candidate text under audit.

python-architect persona doc-writer persona

Sibling contract

This skill is a SIBLING of docs-corpus-audit and docs-sync. The boundary is load-bearing:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Docs Grounding Verifier

What else does microsoft publish alongside Docs Grounding Verifier?
Docs Grounding Verifier is one of 21 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/apm, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include APM Issue Autopilot, APM Review Panel and APM Spec Guardian. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Docs Grounding Verifier does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/apm page.
How does Docs Grounding Verifier compare to other Quality skills?
Docs Grounding Verifier ranks #386 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Docs Grounding Verifier against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.