method-check

A read-only command that checks the health of a project's Method setup and current feature. It examines configuration, workflow documents, saved state, branches, worktrees, templates, and review settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps validate a Method project, identify the recommended next command, and perform the readiness checks required before implementation.
Why use it?
It finds missing, outdated, contradictory, or invalid workflow information before the agent takes the next step.

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/lab94/frenchie-skill/method-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lab94/frenchie-skill
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 589 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 $0.00589
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00295
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00059

Measured yesterday against content hash 2d0ed32aa903, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

method-check 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 yesterday.

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.

method/commands/method-check.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/method-check

Read-only Method health check for the user's project and current feature.

Validate config schema/defaults, artifact existence, required sections, state sanity, stale artifacts, worktree path existence, branch alignment, skillTriggers, cross-model review settings, template validity, and the recommended next command.

When the recommended next command is /implement, also run the pre-implement contract:

  • no unresolved state.json.openQuestions[]
  • no non-canonical numbered artifacts
  • no standalone Method-owned companion artifact such as security-review.md in state.json.artifacts
  • task-type-specific required artifacts exist and are not stale:
    • new-feature / bug-fix: 01-requirement.md, 02-acceptance-criteria.md, 03-test-case.md, 04-implementation-plan.md
    • hotfix: 01-requirement.md, 02-acceptance-criteria.md, 03-test-case.md; 04-implementation-plan.md is optional for SEV4
    • documentation, refactor, tech-debt, dep-bump, spike: 01-requirement.md
  • user-facing work has 05-design.md
  • behavior, billing, security, logging, storage, and async lifecycle decisions do not contradict across artifacts

If state.json is invalid, include a repair state.json note in ## Risks / Blockers: regenerate it from the canonical artifacts with schemaVersion, artifactRoot, and artifacts.{file}.status plus artifacts.{file}.dependencies.

Decision Reconciliation

When the recommended next command is /implement, run a semantic consistency pass before recommending implementation:

  • Scan critical nouns and decision terms across the artifact set: auth scopes, billing units, job lifecycle, storage policy, logging/PII, external service clients, feature flags, and user-visible UX.
  • Flag stale decisions left behind after a direction change, such as an old OAuth scope or old data lifecycle policy that contradicts the latest requirement.
  • Confirm 04-implementation-plan.md has a single Chosen Implementation Boundaries answer for each important technical boundary.
  • If a contradiction is found, recommend artifact repair or /redo of the stale stage before /implement; still allow user override after explicit confirmation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 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. yesterday First seen · 46 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2d0ed32aa903

Subscribe to this mod's changes

method-check is a command published in the GitHub repository Lab94/frenchie-skill (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 589 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 2026-08-31.