skill-check

skill-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 23 tokens per session (968 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of skill-check, MIT.

A read-only checker for SKILL.md files, which are instruction files that define coding-agent skills. It compares their structure, wording, and names with the Agent Skills specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a skill before publishing, investigate trigger problems, or check whether a team’s skill files follow authoring standards.
Why use it?
It finds malformed fields, contradictions, naming problems, and other quality gaps before a skill is published or used. This helps explain why a skill may not trigger correctly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to review a skill before publishing, investigate trigger problems, or check whether a team’s skill files follow authoring standards.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beel-collab/presets.dev/skill-check
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.

Any agent
npx skills add beel-collab/presets.dev --skill skill-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beel-collab/presets.dev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for skill-check

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/beel-collab/presets.dev/skill-check.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/beel-collab/presets.dev/skill-check)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/beel-collab/presets.dev/skill-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/beel-collab/presets.dev/skill-check.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 968 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00023 $0.00968
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00484
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00097

Measured 4d ago against content hash ff15056aa5e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to skill-check — 18 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

claude/skills/development/skill-check/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SkillCheck

Overview

Validate SKILL.md files against the agentskills specification and Anthropic best practices. Catches structural errors, semantic contradictions, naming anti-patterns, and quality gaps in a single read-only pass.

When to Use This Skill

  • Use when user says "check skill", "skillcheck", or "validate SKILL.md"
  • Use when reviewing a skill before publishing to a marketplace
  • Use when debugging why a skill doesn't trigger correctly
  • Use when onboarding a team to skill authoring standards
  • Do NOT use for anti-slop detection, security scanning, or token analysis; use SkillCheck Pro for those

How It Works

Step 1: Parse

Read the target SKILL.md file and extract YAML frontmatter.

Step 2: Validate

Apply all Free tier checks in order:

Category Checks What it catches
Structure (1.x) Name format, description WHAT+WHEN, allowed-tools, categories, XML injection Malformed frontmatter, missing fields
Body (2.x) Line count, hardcoded paths, stale dates, empty sections, deprecated syntax, MCP tool qualification Content quality issues
Naming (3.x) Vague terms, single-word names, gerund suggestions Poor discoverability
Semantic (4.x) Contradictions, ambiguous terms, missing output format, wisdom/platitudes, misplaced triggers Logical inconsistencies
Quality (8.x) Examples, error handling, triggers, output format, prerequisites, negative triggers Strengths (positive patterns)

Step 3: Score

Calculate overall score (0-100). Penalties: critical = -20, warning = -5, suggestion = -1.

Step 4: Report

Return structured results: score, grade (Excellent/Good/Needs Work/Poor), issue list with check IDs, line numbers, messages, and fix suggestions.

Examples

Example 1: Validating a skill

User: check my skill at ~/.claude/skills/weekly-report/SKILL.md

SkillCheck output:
## weekly-report Check Results [FREE]

Score: 85/100 (Good)

### Warnings (2)
  - 1.2-desc-when (line 3): Description missing WHEN clause
  - 4.5-desc-no-triggers (line 3): Description lacks triggering conditions

### Suggestions (1)
  - 3.4-gerund-naming (line 2): Skill name could use gerund form

### Passed Checks: 28

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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 · 107 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A ff15056aa5e4

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skill-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository beel-collab/presets.dev (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 968 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to skill-check, differing in 18 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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