diff --git a/tools/verify_docs/bin/verify_docs.dart b/tools/verify_docs/bin/verify_docs.dart
index 85bcdf78860..fb1e98ac48f 100755
--- a/tools/verify_docs/bin/verify_docs.dart
+++ b/tools/verify_docs/bin/verify_docs.dart
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import 'package:analyzer/error/error.dart';
 import 'package:analyzer/file_system/overlay_file_system.dart';
 import 'package:analyzer/file_system/physical_file_system.dart';
 import 'package:analyzer/source/line_info.dart';
+import 'package:analyzer/src/dart/error/syntactic_errors.g.dart';
 import 'package:analyzer/src/error/codes.dart';
 import 'package:analyzer/src/util/comment.dart';
 import 'package:path/path.dart' as path;
@@ -353,6 +354,10 @@ class ValidateCommentCodeSamplesVisitor extends GeneralizingAstVisitor {
         return false;
       });
 
+      // Don't error on annotations above library.
+      errors.removeWhere(
+          (e) => e.errorCode == ParserErrorCode.LIBRARY_DIRECTIVE_NOT_FIRST);
+
       if (errors.isNotEmpty) {
         print('$filePath:${sample.lineStartOffset}: ${errors.length} errors');