ace:validate-zones

ace:validate-zones is a command for coding agents from AgriciDaniel/ace-claude-code. It costs 14 tokens per session (2,503 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-configuration checker for ownership zones defined in project-types.json. Zones describe which parts of a codebase each area owns and which files it must not change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate the zone configuration for the selected project type and scan source files for coverage. It reads project-types.json and config.json to determine what to check.
Why use it?
It finds overlapping ownership rules, contradictions between allowed and forbidden areas, and source files that no zone covers. This helps prevent unclear responsibility in a shared codebase.

Command

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 commands/agricidaniel/ace-claude-code/validate-zones
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/ace-claude-code

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README.md
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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,503 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 $0.00014 $0.02503
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.01252
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00501
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00250

Measured 4d ago against content hash 58f997dfaf0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ace:validate-zones 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 4d 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.

.ace/commands/validate-zones.md · 439 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 439 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ensures no overlapping ownership patterns between zones, no conflicts between owns and forbidden lists, and that all source files are covered by some zone.

Required: @.ace/project-types.json @.ace/config.json (for current project type)

Scan: Project source files to check coverage

1. Load Zone Configuration

+==============================================================+
|                    ZONE VALIDATION                           |
+==============================================================+

Loading zone configuration...

Load project-types.json and determine target project type:

if $ARGUMENTS provided:
    project_type = $ARGUMENTS
else:
    Read config.json for project.type

if project_type not found in project-types.json:
    Error: "Unknown project type: [type]"
    Show available types

Display loaded configuration:

PROJECT TYPE: [type]
Name: [project name]

ZONES:
+--------+-------------------+--------------------------------+
| Zone   | Name              | Responsibility                 |
+--------+-------------------+--------------------------------+
| ALPHA  | [zone name]       | [responsibility]               |
| BETA   | [zone name]       | [responsibility]               |
| GAMMA  | [zone name]       | [responsibility]               |
+--------+-------------------+--------------------------------+

+==============================================================+

2. Check Ownership Overlaps

Compare "owns" patterns across all zones:

OWNERSHIP OVERLAP CHECK:

Comparing zone ownership patterns...

ALPHA owns:
  - src/models/**
  - src/schemas/**
  - src/types/**

BETA owns:
  - src/services/**
  - src/utils/**
  - src/middleware/**

GAMMA owns:
  - src/routes/**
  - src/controllers/**
  - src/app.ts

Checking for overlaps...

Read the full file on GitHub · 439 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. 4d ago First seen · 439 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 58f997dfaf0a

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ace:validate-zones is a command published in the GitHub repository AgriciDaniel/ace-claude-code (24 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 2,503 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.