swe:change-validation-planner

swe:change-validation-planner is a skill for Claude Code from ckorhonen/swe-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,263 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for validating a specific code change or difference from the previous version. It chooses checks from narrow to broad and explains what each check proves.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before merging a scoped change to decide which commands to run first, which broader checks are conditional, and what evidence is still missing.
Why use it?
It helps avoid wasting time on unrelated full-repository checks while making clear what remains unverified. It is for planning validation, not debugging or writing tests.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the swe-skills plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before merging a scoped change to decide which commands to run first, which broader checks are conditional, and what evidence is still missing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckorhonen/swe-skills/change-validation-planner
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 ckorhonen/swe-skills --skill change-validation-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ckorhonen/swe-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install swe-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,263 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 $0.00086 $0.01263
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00632
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00126

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7592bcb1132a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swe:change-validation-planner 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 10d 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.

skills/change-validation-planner/SKILL.md · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SWE Change Validation Planner

What This Skill Does

Use this skill to turn a scoped code change into a disciplined validation plan.

The job is not to debug the change or rewrite tests. The job is to decide:

  • what evidence is already enough
  • what to validate first
  • what to validate only if the earlier checks fail or remain ambiguous
  • what remains unverified even after the recommended checks

The result should help an engineer or agent validate a change without wasting time on broad, low-signal commands.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • know what to run before merging a scoped change
  • validate a diff, PR, or local edit with the smallest trustworthy command set
  • compare narrow versus broad validation options
  • understand what a change still does not prove
  • plan a repeatable validation sequence for a specific repository surface

Do Not Use

Do not use this skill for:

  • implementing the code change itself
  • writing or expanding tests as the primary task
  • generic QA across the whole repo with no scoped change
  • root-cause debugging when the failure cause is still unknown
  • architecture planning or release orchestration

Inputs To Confirm

Confirm or infer:

  • the exact change scope, diff, or PR
  • which files, packages, or services are touched
  • what commands already exist in the repo
  • whether the user wants a quick plan or a deeper validation ladder
  • any flaky suites, slow commands, or no-touch areas
  • whether CI signals are available for the changed surface

If the scope is missing, ask for the smallest additional detail needed to bound the validation plan.

Tooling Stance

This skill is tool agnostic.

Prefer the repository's own validation entry points first, such as:

  • targeted tests for the touched module or package
  • lint or typecheck commands that cover the affected surface
  • build or compile checks when the change crosses a boundary
  • integration or e2e checks only when the change reaches those seams

Do not jump directly to the slowest or broadest suite unless the change is actually system-wide or earlier checks are not meaningful.

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 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. 10d ago First seen · 194 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 7592bcb1132a

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swe:change-validation-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository ckorhonen/swe-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,263 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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