By name: agentic-neovim-documentation description: Use when neovim documentation is needed for the current task or the user asks for specific neovim features or neovim lua apis. It gives instructions on how to read current Neovim's documentation locally and offline, and also how to read online if it fails
Neovim Documentation Files and help docs
CRITICAL: Do NOT run nvim --headless or any other nvim command to read
help documentation. Use direct file access instead.
Exception: regenerating helptags after a vimdoc edit is allowed and required by
AGENTS.md — timeout 5 nvim --headless -c "helptags doc/" -c "quit". That
writes tags, it does not read docs.
Why: Running nvim commands can hang, cause race conditions, or interfere
with development environment.
Neovim Documentation Lookup Strategy:
Always prefer reading local documentation files directly from the Neovim runtime path, because they reflect the exact version installed on the system.
Common path patterns for discovery:
- macOS (Homebrew):
- Runtime docs:
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/neovim/*/share/nvim/runtime/doc/ - Note: We don't need the exact version, just use the wildcard
*to match the installed version
- Runtime docs:
- Linux (Snap):
/snap/nvim/current/usr/bin/nvim- Runtime docs:
/snap/nvim/current/usr/share/nvim/runtime/doc/
- Runtime docs:
If local lookup fails: Use GitHub raw URLs (least preferred)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neovim/neovim/refs/tags/v<version>/runtime/doc/<doc-name>.txt
Tip: Do not assume a file contains what you need, use rg, or grep on the
runtime/doc folder to find the file containing needed info.