validate-templates

validate-templates is a command for Claude Code from jameywarren/shopify-claude-quickstart. It costs 18 tokens per session (407 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local checker for Shopify theme template JSON. It compares each block’s settings keys with the settings defined in its section or block schema.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking all theme templates, or a selected group, for settings that no longer exist in the related schema.
Why use it?
It catches mismatched or outdated setting names before they cause problems in the store. It works from local theme files without API calls.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Checking all theme templates, or a selected group, for settings that no longer exist in the related schema.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jameywarren/shopify-claude-quickstart/validate-templates
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jameywarren/shopify-claude-quickstart

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 407 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 $0.00018 $0.00407
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00204
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00041

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6975aa3a73d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-templates 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 8d 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/commands/validate-templates.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Validate that every block referenced in the theme's template JSON files has settings keys that match what the section schema actually defines. This catches the case where a section's Liquid was updated (settings renamed or removed) but the template JSON still references old key names.

Work entirely from local files in store-data/theme/. No API calls needed.


Step 1 — Find templates to check

If $ARGUMENTS is provided, use it as a glob (e.g. templates/page.*.json). Otherwise check all templates: templates/*.json and templates/customers/*.json.


Step 2 — For each template

Parse the JSON. For every section entry and every block entry within it:

  1. Identify the block type (this maps to a section or block file in the theme)
  2. Collect every settings key present in the template JSON for that block
  3. Find the corresponding section file: check sections/{type}.liquid, then blocks/{type}.liquid
  4. Parse the {% schema %} tag from that Liquid file and extract all defined setting id values
  5. Compare: flag any settings key in the JSON that does not appear in the schema's setting ids

Step 3 — Report

For each mismatch found:

DRIFT: templates/page.wall-of-sound.json
  Section: sections/featured-collection.liquid
  Block type: standard_pick (line 47)
  Stale keys in JSON:  standard_pick
  Current keys in schema: standard_name, standard_url

If no mismatches: "All templates valid — no schema drift detected."

Do not modify any files. Output only. Run /safe-push or fix the JSON manually after reviewing the report.

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. 8d ago First seen · 46 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 6975aa3a73d7

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validate-templates is a command published in the GitHub repository jameywarren/shopify-claude-quickstart (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 407 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 2026-08-31.