diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 3f4d2da..41cbf0a 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -255,7 +255,9 @@ implementation agents.
     compiles (as an empty body) under default features and
     compile-checks under `--all-features`. Verify with `cargo test`
     (the doctest run) in both feature configurations; the crate-root
-    assembly example in `src/lib.rs` is the reference pattern.
+    assembly example in `src/lib.rs` is the reference pattern. The
+    `scripts/docs-check.sh` docs gate automates the whole rule (see
+    below) and also fails on any `ignore` block it finds.
 
 ## Verification Commands
 
@@ -271,6 +273,7 @@ cargo test --manifest-path fuzz/shared/Cargo.toml    # fuzz corpus replay: the s
 cargo check --target wasm32-unknown-unknown       # the default crate stays wasm-clean
 cargo clippy --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -- -D warnings
 cargo publish --dry-run --allow-dirty             # before a release
+./scripts/docs-check.sh                           # docs gate: rustdoc -D warnings, zero ignored doctests, no untested badges
 ```
 
 The wasm check is the structural guard for the "default crate is
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6abb617..285eee8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ repository = "https://git.alk.dev/alkdev/alktty"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["tty", "terminal", "pty", "channels", "alkcall"]
 categories = ["network-programming", "asynchronous"]
-exclude = [".opencode/", "AGENTS.md", "docs/reviews/", "docs/plans/", "docs/sdd_process.md", "fuzz/"]
+exclude = [".opencode/", "AGENTS.md", "scripts/", "docs/reviews/", "docs/plans/", "docs/sdd_process.md", "fuzz/"]
 
 [workspace]
 members = ["."]
diff --git a/scripts/docs-check.sh b/scripts/docs-check.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8f58c95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/docs-check.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Docs sanity gate: run before a publish (AGENTS.md convention 16).
+# Catches what `cargo doc` alone does not: ignore-marked doc examples,
+# which rustdoc renders with the untested badge that docs.rs surfaces on
+# the crate page (the tooltip "This example is not tested"; the wording
+# varies by rustdoc version, so we grep the stable `example-wrap ignore`
+# markup class instead).
+#
+# 1. rustdoc build with warnings as errors: broken intra-doc links,
+#    broken anchors, and doc lints fail here instead of surfacing on
+#    docs.rs (docs.rs does not fail on warnings, so the local gate is
+#    stricter than production).
+# 2. doctests in both feature configurations, with the rule that zero
+#    doctests are ignored (ignored = uncompiled = untested). The lib
+#    doctest count is expected: 1 compiled (the assembly example), 0
+#    ignored. Feature-gated example bodies compile as empty under
+#    default features and fully under --all-features.
+# 3. badge scan over the rendered HTML: no `example-wrap ignore` markup
+#    and no "example is ... tested" tooltip text anywhere in target/doc.
+set -euo pipefail
+root="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+cd "$root"
+
+echo "== rustdoc build, warnings as errors (default features)"
+RUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo doc --no-deps
+
+ignored_count() {
+    echo "$1" | grep -o '[0-9]* ignored' | awk '{s += $1} END {print s + 0}'
+}
+
+for cfg in "" "--all-features"; do
+    label="default features"
+    [ -n "$cfg" ] && label="--all-features"
+    echo "== doctests ($label)"
+    out="$(cargo test --doc $cfg 2>&1)"
+    echo "$out" | grep -E '^test result' | sed "s/^/  $label: /"
+    ignored="$(ignored_count "$out")"
+    if [ "$ignored" != "0" ]; then
+        echo "FAIL: $ignored ignored doctest(s) ($label); convention 16:" \
+             "examples are tested or no_run, never ignore" >&2
+        exit 1
+    fi
+done
+
+echo "== untested-badge scan over target/doc"
+badges="$(grep -rlE 'example-wrap[ "]?ignore|This example is (not |un)?tested' \
+    target/doc/alktty/*.html 2>/dev/null || true)"
+if [ -n "$badges" ]; then
+    echo "FAIL: untested-documentation badge(s) in the rendered docs:" >&2
+    echo "$badges" | sed 's/^/  /' >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "docs-check: ok"
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