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Skill SeidSmatti/misc-CC-Plugins/plugins/academic-latex/skills/docs-lookup

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npx -y skills add SeidSmatti/misc-CC-Plugins --skill docs-lookup

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Fetches authoritative LaTeX package documentation (CTAN, TUG, package author repos) when a sibling skill is uncertain about a package, option, command, or compiler behavior. Use when the answer to a LaTeX question is not 100% certain, when picking a non-trivial package option, or when the user asks "is this still the right way?". The no-guessing gate for the academic-latex suite.

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docs-lookup — the no-guessing gate

This skill exists so the rest of the suite can stop guessing. When compile, debug, author, modernize, figure-helper, table-helper, bibliography, multilingual, or arxiv-prep runs into a question whose answer it is not certain about, it delegates here instead of inventing an answer.

Authoritative source ladder

For LaTeX, "authoritative" means in this order:

  1. CTAN package page — https://ctan.org/pkg/<package>. The page links to the canonical PDF manual.
  2. Package PDF manual — usually at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/<package>/<package>.pdf or via texdoc <package> locally.
  3. Package author's repo — for actively maintained packages (e.g. https://github.com/plk/biblatex, https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab, https://github.com/schlcht/microtype).
  4. TUG (TeX Users Group) — https://www.tug.org/. For engine-level questions.
  5. LaTeX project — https://www.latex-project.org/. For LaTeX2e core, usrguide, clsguide.
  6. arXiv help — https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit_tex.html. For arXiv-submission questions.
  7. TeX Stack Exchange (Tier-B) — https://tex.stackexchange.com/. Use only as a hint to find the package; verify against 1–6.

texdoc <package> locally (TeX Live) opens the same PDF. Prefer it when running on a developer machine — the file is on disk already.

Quick procedure

  1. Identify the specific question in one sentence. ("Does biblatex v3.21 still support style=ieee natively, or is biblatex-ieee required?")
  2. Pick the smallest authoritative source that can answer it (usually the CTAN page or the package PDF).
  3. Fetch with WebFetch (CTAN, TUG, GitHub raw README/wiki). Quote the exact passage that answers the question.
  4. Return: the quote, the URL, and a one-sentence interpretation. Nothing speculative.
  5. If the source is silent, say so explicitly. Suggest the next-best source. Do not fabricate.
Q: <one-sentence question>
A (verbatim quote): <copy from authoritative source>
Source: <URL>
Interpretation: <one sentence>
Confidence: high|medium|low

Verified canonical URLs by topic

Skill bodies in this suite reference these. If a URL 404s, search CTAN: https://ctan.org/search?phrase=<query>.

TopicURL
latexmkhttps://ctan.org/pkg/latexmk · https://mirrors.ctan.org/support/latexmk/latexmk.pdf
biblatexhttps://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex · https://github.com/plk/biblatex
biberhttps://ctan.org/pkg/biber
natbibhttps://ctan.org/pkg/natbib
polyglossiahttps://ctan.org/pkg/polyglossia · https://texdoc.org/serve/polyglossia.pdf/0
babelhttps://ctan.org/pkg/babel
bidihttps://ctan.org/pkg/bidi
luabidihttps://ctan.org/pkg/luabidi
xeCJKhttps://ctan.org/pkg/xecjk
ctexhttps://ctan.org/pkg/ctex
luatexjahttps://ctan.org/pkg/luatexja
fontspechttps://ctan.org/pkg/fontspec
microtypehttps://ctan.org/pkg/microtype · https://www.tug.org/docs/latex/microtype/microtype.pdf
booktabshttps://ctan.org/pkg/booktabs
pgfplotshttps://ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots · https://tikz.dev/pgfplots
TikZhttps://tikz.dev/
siunitxhttps://ctan.org/pkg/siunitx
hyperrefhttps://ctan.org/pkg/hyperref
latexdiffhttps://ctan.org/pkg/latexdiff
latexpandhttps://ctan.org/pkg/latexpand
amsmathhttps://ctan.org/pkg/amsmath
graphicxhttps://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
captionhttps://ctan.org/pkg/caption
subcaptionhttps://ctan.org/pkg/subcaption
cleverefhttps://ctan.org/pkg/cleveref
enumitemhttps://ctan.org/pkg/enumitem
arxiv submithttps://info.arxiv.org/help/submit_tex.html
LaTeX core (usrguide)https://www.latex-project.org/help/documentation/usrguide.pdf
TeX FAQhttps://texfaq.org/
LaTeX2e referencehttps://latexref.xyz/
texlabhttps://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab/wiki/Configuration

When to NOT use this skill

If the answer is in the suite's other knowledge-reference skills (typography, multilingual, bibliography), prefer reading those — they are pre-curated. Use docs-lookup for package-specific or version-specific facts that the knowledge skills don't cover, or when the user explicitly asks for the canonical source.

Output format

Return the quote-source-interpretation block. The calling skill (or the user) decides what to do with it. Do not act on the lookup — that's the caller's job.

Last verified

2026-05-09 — URLs verified against CTAN, TUG, latex-lsp/texlab.

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