skill-validate

skill-validate is a command for Claude Code from kid-sid/claude-spellbook. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,166 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local checker for the skills and agents in a spellbook, using the same checks as its continuous-integration workflow. It reports formatting and required-content problems without changing files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Run it to validate skill and agent files locally, checking required metadata, sections, checklist items, and other CI rules.
Why use it?
It lets authors find CI failures before pushing changes. Problems are shown for review instead of being fixed automatically.

Command 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 commands/kid-sid/claude-spellbook/skill-validate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kid-sid/claude-spellbook

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,166 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 $0.00000 $0.01166
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00117

Measured 4d ago against content hash 369a5301f302, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-validate 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.

.claude/commands/skill-validate.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run local CI validation on all skills and agents in the spellbook — same checks as .github/workflows/ci.yml.

Instructions

Run the following checks and report results. Do NOT fix issues automatically — report them so the author can decide.

1. Skill Format Check

ERRORS=0
for skill in skills/*/skill.md; do
  SKILL_ERRORS=0
  head -1 "$skill" | grep -q "^---" || { echo "  FAIL [$skill]: Missing frontmatter (first line must be ---)"; SKILL_ERRORS=1; }
  grep -q "^name:" "$skill"        || { echo "  FAIL [$skill]: Missing name: field"; SKILL_ERRORS=1; }
  grep -q "^description:" "$skill" || { echo "  FAIL [$skill]: Missing description: field"; SKILL_ERRORS=1; }
  grep -q "## When to Activate" "$skill" || { echo "  FAIL [$skill]: Missing ## When to Activate section"; SKILL_ERRORS=1; }
  grep -q "## Checklist" "$skill"  || { echo "  FAIL [$skill]: Missing ## Checklist section"; SKILL_ERRORS=1; }
  grep -q "\- \[ \]" "$skill"      || { echo "  FAIL [$skill]: Checklist has no '- [ ]' items"; SKILL_ERRORS=1; }
  [ $SKILL_ERRORS -eq 0 ] && echo "  PASS [$skill]"
  ERRORS=$((ERRORS + SKILL_ERRORS))
done

2. Agent Format Check

VALID_MODELS="sonnet opus haiku inherit"
VALID_COLORS="red blue green yellow purple orange"
for agent in .claude/agents/*.md; do
  AGENT_ERRORS=0
  head -1 "$agent" | grep -q "^---"    || { echo "  FAIL [$agent]: Missing frontmatter"; AGENT_ERRORS=1; }
  grep -q "^name:"        "$agent"     || { echo "  FAIL [$agent]: Missing name:"; AGENT_ERRORS=1; }
  grep -q "^description:" "$agent"     || { echo "  FAIL [$agent]: Missing description:"; AGENT_ERRORS=1; }
  grep -q "^tools:"       "$agent"     || { echo "  FAIL [$agent]: Missing tools:"; AGENT_ERRORS=1; }
  grep -q "^model:"       "$agent"     || { echo "  FAIL [$agent]: Missing model:"; AGENT_ERRORS=1; }
  MODEL=$(grep "^model:" "$agent" | head -1 | sed 's/model:[[:space:]]*//')
  echo "$VALID_MODELS" | grep -qw "$MODEL" || { echo "  FAIL [$agent]: model '$MODEL' not in ($VALID_MODELS)"; AGENT_ERRORS=1; }
  [ $AGENT_ERRORS -eq 0 ] && echo "  PASS [$agent]"
  ERRORS=$((ERRORS + AGENT_ERRORS))
done

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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 · 104 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 369a5301f302

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skill-validate is a command published in the GitHub repository kid-sid/claude-spellbook (187 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,166 tokens. 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.