check-models

check-models is a command for Claude Code from ThrownLemon/claude-code-plugins. It costs 35 tokens per session (461 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project checker that finds AI model IDs in your code and compares them with each provider’s current list of available models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check model settings for z.ai, OpenAI, and Google Gemini, and identify IDs that need verification or updating.
Why use it?
Model IDs can be renamed, removed, or become outdated, causing calls to fail or preventing you from using newer models.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: arguments 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 model-check plugin — 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to check model settings for z.ai, OpenAI, and Google Gemini, and identify IDs that need verification or updating.

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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 ThrownLemon/claude-code-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install model-check

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install model-check, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 command.

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Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 461 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 $0.00035 $0.00461
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00184
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 73f4dfbee15d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-models 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 1mo 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/model-check/commands/check-models.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Model Currency Check

Run the bundled checker against the current project and present the report.

Input safety

$ARGUMENTS.provider is untrusted. Before using it, validate it is exactly one of zai, openai, or gemini. If it is anything else (empty is fine), ignore it and run without --provider. Never pass raw user text into the shell command.

Behavior

Build the command from this fixed template, substituting only a validated provider value:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/check-models.mjs" [--provider <validated>]
  • With no/invalid provider arg → run with no --provider (checks every provider whose API key is set).
  • With a valid provider arg (zai | openai | gemini) → append --provider <that value>.

Run it from the project root so it scans the user's repo. Then summarize the output for the user:

  • ✓ current · ↻ rolling alias · ↳ shortform — no action.
  • ⚠ not in live /models list — call these out: the configured id may be removed/renamed, or simply brand-new and not yet listed. Recommend verifying the id still resolves.
  • 🆕 live models not used in the repo — mention notable newer ones as upgrade candidates.

Keys

Only providers with an API key in the environment are checked:

  • z.ai: ZAI_API_KEY / ZHIPU_API_KEY / GLM_API_KEY
  • OpenAI: OPENAI_API_KEY
  • Google: GEMINI_API_KEY / GOOGLE_API_KEY

If a provider is skipped for a missing key, note which env var to set.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 42 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 73f4dfbee15d

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check-models is a command published in the GitHub repository ThrownLemon/claude-code-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 461 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.