check

check is a command for Claude Code from paulbaranowski/wild-horses. It costs 38 tokens per session (737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only checker for finding problems in technical prose. It can inspect code comments, docstrings, Markdown, plain text, pull-request changes, branch differences, or pasted text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan documentation and code-adjacent text for long sentences, banned wording, and other standard violations.
Why use it?
It reports writing issues without editing files, so you can review the findings before changing anything. This helps check prose consistently against a plain-language standard.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the plain-language plugin — 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to scan documentation and code-adjacent text for long sentences, banned wording, and other standard violations.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add paulbaranowski/wild-horses
Claude Code
/plugin install plain-language

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install plain-language, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 737 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 $0.00038 $0.00737
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00368
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00074

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2910817add58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 7d 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/plain-language/commands/check.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

plain-language: check

Report where prose breaks the plain-language standard. This command never edits a file.

Bundled assets at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-${CURSOR_PLUGIN_ROOT}}. If the variable is not substituted in this context, find the files with Glob "**/plain-language/standard.md" and read the siblings alongside it.

  • standard.md - the writing standard.
  • scope.md - scope resolution, the extension table, the changed-lines map.
  • scripts/plain_language_cli.py - the deterministic scanner.

Target: "$ARGUMENTS"

Steps

  1. Resolve the scope with scope.md. The result is a file list, a file list plus a changed-lines map, or free text.

  2. Free text: check it against standard.md yourself. List each violation with its sentence in the reply. Stop here.

  3. Run the scanner:

    python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-${CURSOR_PLUGIN_ROOT}}/scripts/plain_language_cli.py" scan FILE...
    

    For PR scope, add --changed-lines - and pipe the map per scope.md.

  4. Judge every candidate hit against standard.md, including its "What not to flag" section. Six kinds are candidates, not verdicts:

    • banned-token: read the sentence and decide literal or figurative. Literal uses pass. Figurative uses are violations.
    • filler-phrase: a violation when the phrase carries no fact. It passes when the sentence needs those words.
    • copula-avoidance: a violation when "is", "are", or "has" says the same thing. It passes when the verb carries real meaning.
    • empty-phrase: a violation when the phrase promises depth and names nothing. It passes when the sentence goes on to name the thing.
    • dash-substitute: a violation when the character does an em-dash's job. A number range passes.
    • diff-anchored: a violation when the prose narrates a change the reader cannot see. It passes in a changelog, a release note, or a migration guide, because those documents are about a change.
  5. Report in this order. First the totals by kind. Then, per file, each violation with its line number and sentence. Then the candidate hits you judged correct and left, grouped by kind. Then the files skipped, with reasons, and the blocks skipped, grouped by reason. Last, any parse errors.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 7d ago First seen · 67 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 2910817add58

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check is a command published in the GitHub repository paulbaranowski/wild-horses (11 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 737 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 2026-08-30.