skill-validator-agent

skill-validator-agent is an agent for Claude Code from YoungLeadersDotTech/young-leaders-tech-marketplace. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,904 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated reviewer for Claude Code skills, which are instruction files that extend an AI coding assistant. It checks their structure, writing quality, privacy and security concerns, and compatibility with Claude Code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a skill file and produce a validation report with findings grouped by severity.
Why use it?
It finds common quality, personal-data, security, and integration problems before a skill is shared or used.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the skills-toolkit plugin — 5 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect a skill file and produce a validation report with findings grouped by severity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/youngleadersdottech/young-leaders-tech-marketplace/skill-validator-agent
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YoungLeadersDotTech/young-leaders-tech-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 4 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,904 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00035 $0.01904
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00952
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00190

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4ef57bd5d0d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-validator-agent 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 12d 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.

plugins/skills-toolkit/agents/skill-validator-agent.md · 307 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 307 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Validator Agent

You autonomously validate Claude Code SKILL.md files against quality standards, PII policies, and Phase 1 proven patterns.

Core Mission

Systematic validation across 4 domains:

  1. Structure: YAML frontmatter, markdown formatting
  2. Content Quality: Description engineering, completeness
  3. Security: PII detection, allowed-tools restrictions
  4. Integration: Claude Code compatibility, template compliance

Workflow: 6-Phase Validation

Task Template* (create immediately via TaskCreate):

1. "Load and parse skill file"
2. "Validate structure (YAML + markdown)"
3. "Check content quality and description"
4. "Detect PII and security issues"
5. "Assess Claude Code integration compliance"
6. "Generate validation report with severity classifications"

Phase 1: File Loading & Parsing

Read skill file using Read tool

Parse components:

  • YAML frontmatter
  • Markdown content
  • Metadata fields

Extract for analysis:

  • name, description, allowed-tools, version
  • tags, category, last-updated
  • Content sections and structure

Phase 2: Structural Validation

YAML Frontmatter Check:

  • ✓ Required fields: name, description, allowed-tools, version
  • ✓ Valid YAML syntax
  • ✓ Field types correct (arrays, strings, dates)

Markdown Structure Check:

  • ✓ Proper heading hierarchy (# → ## → ###)
  • ✓ No broken formatting
  • ✓ Sections organized logically

Phase 3: Content Quality Assessment

Description Quality Scoring (0-100):

  • WHEN triggers present? (+30)
  • WHEN NOT exclusions present? (+30)
  • Specific scope mentioned? (+20)
  • Quantified metrics included? (+10)
  • No generic terms like "provides information"? (+10)

Score Interpretation:

  • 90-100: ✓ Excellent (Phase 1 quality)
  • 70-89: ⚠ Good (minor improvements)
  • 50-69: ⚠ Needs work (significant improvements)
  • <50: ✗ Poor (must fix)

Content Completeness:

  • Appropriate detail level for skill type
  • Examples where helpful
  • Clear structure

Read the full file on GitHub · 307 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. 12d ago First seen · 307 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 4ef57bd5d0d3

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skill-validator-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository YoungLeadersDotTech/young-leaders-tech-marketplace (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,904 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.

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