validate-skills

validate-skills is a skill for Claude Code from callstackincubator/agent-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (641 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A validator for skill folders in a repository. It checks their metadata and instructions against the agentskills.io specification and common Claude Code practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking every skill's name, directory match, description, optional fields, document length, progressive disclosure, and Markdown links.
Why use it?
It finds invalid names, descriptions, links, directory structures, or overly long instructions before a skill is used or published.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

About the project

Callstack Agent Skills is a collection of instructions that gives AI coding assistants practical knowledge for building React Native applications. Developers use it for app development, performance, navigation, testing, CI, device automation, and migrations to React Native. The catalogue entries are the project's skills, rules, and instructions for compatible coding assistants.

callstackincubator/agent-skills · 1,638 stars · on GitHub

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 skills/callstackincubator/agent-skills/validate-skills
Any agent
npx skills add callstackincubator/agent-skills --skill validate-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/callstackincubator/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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 validate-skills

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/callstackincubator/agent-skills/validate-skills.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/callstackincubator/agent-skills/validate-skills)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/callstackincubator/agent-skills/validate-skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/callstackincubator/agent-skills/validate-skills.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 641 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 5.1 $0.00029 $0.00641
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00320
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00064

Measured 6d ago against content hash cf2aec443ab2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-skills 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 6d 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/skills/validate-skills/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Validate Skills

Validate all skills in skills/ against the agentskills.io spec and Claude Code best practices.

Validation Checklist

For each skill directory, verify:

Spec Compliance (agentskills.io)

Check Rule
name format 1-64 chars, lowercase alphanumeric + hyphens, no leading/trailing/consecutive hyphens
name matches directory Directory name must equal name field
description length 1-1024 characters, non-empty
Optional fields valid license, metadata, compatibility if present

Best Practices (Claude Code)

Check Rule
Description format Third person, describes what + when to use
Body length Under 500 lines
Loading is one-level deep SKILL.md is the only progressive-disclosure entry point: every reference file must be reachable from SKILL.md. References may cross-link each other for navigation (see note below).
Links are markdown Use [text](path) not bare filenames
No redundancy Don't repeat description in body
Concise Only add context Claude doesn't already have

One-level-deep vs. cross-linking. The one-level-deep rule targets progressive-disclosure loading chains — a reference that can only be discovered by loading another reference first (SKILL.mda.mdb.md, where b.md is not linked from SKILL.md). That is a defect: it hides content from the loader.

It does not forbid navigational cross-links. Per AGENTS.md, reference files end with a "Related Skills" footer linking sibling references, and this is required. A cross-link is fine as long as both endpoints are also reachable directly from SKILL.md. Only flag a reference that is reachable exclusively through another reference.

How to Run

  1. Find all skill directories:

    fd -t d -d 1 . skills/
    
  2. For each skill, read SKILL.md and check against the rules above

  3. Report issues in this format:

    ## Validation Results
    
    ### skills/example-skill
    - [PASS] name format valid
    - [FAIL] name "example" doesn't match directory "example-skill"
    - [PASS] description length OK (156 chars)
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 6d ago First seen · 65 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A cf2aec443ab2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

validate-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository callstackincubator/agent-skills (1,638 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 641 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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