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   - [node-gyp](doc/node-gyp.md)
   - [cmake-js](doc/cmake-js.md)
   - [Conversion tool](doc/conversion-tool.md)
+  - [Checker tool](doc/checker-tool.md)
   - [Generator](doc/generator.md)
 
 <a name="api"></a>
diff --git a/doc/checker-tool.md b/doc/checker-tool.md
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+# Checker Tool
+
+**node-addon-api** provides a [checker tool][] that will inspect a given
+directory tree, identifying all Node.js native addons therein, and further
+indicating for each addon whether it is an N-API addon.
+
+## To use the checker tool:
+
+  1. Install the application with `npm install`.
+
+  2. If the application does not depend on **node-addon-api**, copy the
+     checker tool into the application's directory.
+
+  3. If the application does not depend on **node-addon-api**, run the checker
+     tool from the application's directory:
+
+     ```sh
+     node ./check-napi.js
+     ```
+
+     Otherwise, the checker tool can be run from the application's
+     `node_modules/` subdirectory:
+
+     ```sh
+     node ./node_modules/node-addon-api/tools/check-napi.js
+     ```
+
+The tool accepts the root directory from which to start checking for Node.js
+native addons as a single optional command line parameter. If ommitted it will
+start checking from the current directory (`.`).
+
+[checker tool]: ../tools/check-napi.js
diff --git a/tools/check-napi.js b/tools/check-napi.js
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+'use strict';
+// Descend into a directory structure and, for each file matching *.node, output
+// based on the imports found in the file whether it's an N-API module or not.
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const child_process = require('child_process');
+
+// Read the output of the command, break it into lines, and use the reducer to
+// decide whether the file is an N-API module or not.
+function checkFile(file, command, argv, reducer) {
+  const child = child_process.spawn(command, argv, {
+    stdio: ['inherit', 'pipe', 'inherit']
+  });
+  let leftover = '';
+  let isNapi = undefined;
+  child.stdout.on('data', (chunk) => {
+    if (isNapi === undefined) {
+      chunk = (leftover + chunk.toString()).split(/[\r\n]+/);
+      leftover = chunk.pop();
+      isNapi = chunk.reduce(reducer, isNapi);
+      if (isNapi !== undefined) {
+        child.kill();
+      }
+    }
+  });
+  child.on('close', (code, signal) => {
+    if ((code === null && signal !== null) || (code !== 0)) {
+      console.log(
+        command + ' exited with code: '  + code + ' and signal: ' + signal);
+    } else {
+      // Green if it's a N-API module, red otherwise.
+      console.log(
+          '\x1b[' + (isNapi ? '42' : '41') + 'm' +
+          (isNapi ? '    N-API' : 'Not N-API') +
+          '\x1b[0m: ' + file);
+    }
+  });
+}
+
+// Use nm -a to list symbols.
+function checkFileUNIX(file) {
+  checkFile(file, 'nm', ['-a', file], (soFar, line) => {
+    if (soFar === undefined) {
+      line = line.match(/([0-9a-f]*)? ([a-zA-Z]) (.*$)/);
+      if (line[2] === 'U') {
+        if (/^napi/.test(line[3])) {
+          soFar = true;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return soFar;
+  });
+}
+
+// Use dumpbin /imports to list symbols.
+function checkFileWin32(file) {
+  checkFile(file, 'dumpbin', ['/imports', file], (soFar, line) => {
+    if (soFar === undefined) {
+      line = line.match(/([0-9a-f]*)? +([a-zA-Z0-9]) (.*$)/);
+      if (line && /^napi/.test(line[line.length - 1])) {
+        soFar = true;
+      }
+    }
+    return soFar;
+  });
+}
+
+// Descend into a directory structure and pass each file ending in '.node' to
+// one of the above checks, depending on the OS.
+function recurse(top) {
+  fs.readdir(top, (error, items) => {
+    if (error) {
+      throw ("error reading directory " + top + ": " + error);
+    }
+    items.forEach((item) => {
+      item = path.join(top, item);
+      fs.stat(item, ((item) => (error, stats) => {
+        if (error) {
+          throw ("error about " + item + ": " + error);
+        }
+        if (stats.isDirectory()) {
+          recurse(item);
+        } else if (/[.]node$/.test(item) &&
+            // Explicitly ignore files called 'nothing.node' because they are
+            // artefacts of node-addon-api having identified a version of
+            // Node.js that ships with a correct implementation of N-API.
+            path.basename(item) !== 'nothing.node') {
+          process.platform === 'win32' ?
+              checkFileWin32(item) :
+              checkFileUNIX(item);
+        }
+      })(item));
+    });
+  });
+}
+
+// Start with the directory given on the command line or the current directory
+// if nothing was given.
+recurse(process.argv.length > 3 ? process.argv[2] : '.');