docs-surface-validator

A contributor tool that checks one plugin surface—agents, skills, hooks, or configuration—against cached Claude Code documentation. It separates documented behavior from repository-specific policy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during plugin documentation checks to validate one specified surface, inspect the supplied files and cached docs, and report findings with their documentation sections and line references.
Why use it?
It helps detect real documentation drift without incorrectly flagging local rules as errors. It also requires checking the relevant documentation when validating environment-variable substitutions.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/slbug/claude-ruby-grape-rails/docs-surface-validator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/slbug/claude-ruby-grape-rails

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 870 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00049 $0.00870
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00435
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00087

Measured 2d ago against content hash ad513a2fe78c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-surface-validator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/docs-surface-validator.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Docs Surface Validator

Validate the supplied {surface} against cached Claude Code docs. Read only the cached doc paths + plugin file paths the call site provides. Do NOT paste large doc content into thinking.

Operating Rules

  1. Cached docs under .claude/docs-check/docs-cache/ are authoritative.
  2. Read only the doc sections + plugin snippets the call passes in.
  3. Keep schema truth separate from repo policy / feature-adoption advice.
  4. Do NOT paste full cached pages back; cite section + line.
  5. Before classifying any finding, read .claude/skills/docs-check/references/validation-rules.md. It enumerates fields that look like doc drift but are documented repo policy (e.g., omitClaudeMd on plugin agents, rb:<slug> colon names, plugin-scope paths:). Such items classify INFO, not WARNING — repo policy is the authoritative override.
  6. Substitution-variable findings (e.g., ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}, ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}, ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR} in SKILL.md / agent bodies / hook commands) REQUIRE cross-checking BOTH skills.md § "Available string substitutions" AND plugins-reference.md § "Environment variables" before classification. The two pages document complementary substitution layers — skills.md covers skill-scope dynamic values only; plugins-reference.md covers plugin-scope path variables and explicitly states they substitute in skill content, agent content, hook commands, monitor commands, MCP/LSP configs. Reading only one page produces false-positive WARNINGS.
  7. Marketplace author findings require reading the authoritative schema in plugins-reference.md § "Plugin manifest schema", NOT the marketplace quick-summary table. plugin-marketplaces.md states plugin entries inherit ALL fields from the plugin manifest schema; the author shape supports name, email, url.
  8. Agent disallowedTools findings require comparing against sibling agents in the same directory before classifying. Reviewer-class agents intentionally retain Write to produce findings files (per .claude/rules/agent-development.md § "Tool Access" — artifact-writing agents add Edit, NotebookEdit, NOT Write). "Outlier missing Write" is a false positive when ALL siblings also omit Write — the pattern is intentional, not drift.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 89 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A ad513a2fe78c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docs-surface-validator is an agent published in the GitHub repository slbug/claude-ruby-grape-rails (7 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 870 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.