skill-check

skill-check is a skill for Claude Code from claude-world/director-mode-lite. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,516 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for skill and command files, using the file format expected by Claude Code. It can validate one file or all skill files in a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after creating or editing a skill, before committing changes, or when a skill does not load or respond as expected.
Why use it?
Incorrect file structure or metadata can stop a skill from loading or being triggered correctly. The checker catches these issues before they cause confusion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; names the TodoWrite tool.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is command: ./scripts/validate.sh.

Part of the director-mode-lite plugin — 36 skills, 14 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it after creating or editing a skill, before committing changes, or when a skill does not load or respond as expected.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/claude-world/director-mode-lite
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/claude-world/director-mode-lite/skill-check

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install director-mode-lite, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 14 agents.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,516 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.01516
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00606
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00152

Measured 2d ago against content hash 14cc402626d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2d 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/skill-check/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill File Validator

Validate skill files for correct format against the official Claude Code spec.


Validation Target

  • With argument: validate specific file
  • Without: validate all .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md

Frontmatter Reference (official fields)

Skills support these fields. Only description is meaningfully required (a skill with none of these still loads — name defaults to the directory name).

---
name: skill-name              # Optional: defaults to directory name; lowercase, hyphenated
description: What it does      # Recommended: shown in / menu and used for triggering
when_to_use: When to reach for it  # Optional: appended to description for triggering
                              #   (description + when_to_use truncated at 1,536 chars in listings)
user-invocable: true          # Optional: default true; false hides from / menu (Skill tool still works)
model: sonnet                 # Optional: any /model value (sonnet, opus, haiku, fable, best,
                              #   default, opusplan, sonnet[1m], opus[1m], a full model ID) or inherit
effort: medium                # Optional: low, medium, high, xhigh, max
allowed-tools:                # Optional: pre-approved tools. Accepts a comma-separated string
  - Read                      #   OR a YAML list — BOTH are official (list shown here as house style)
  - Grep
  - Glob
disallowed-tools:             # Optional: explicitly blocked tools (string or YAML list)
  - WebFetch
context: fork                 # Optional: run the skill in a subagent
agent: agent-name             # Optional: subagent type when context: fork (default: general-purpose)
background: false             # Optional (2.1.218+): with context: fork, false waits for the result;
                              #   forked skills run in the background by default
argument-hint: "[issue-number]"  # Optional: autocomplete hint shown after the skill name
arguments: target flags       # Optional: space-separated argument NAMES for $name substitution
                              #   (e.g. arguments "target flags" -> use $target and $flags in the body).
                              #   NOT a structured array of name/description/required objects.
disable-model-invocation: false  # Optional: bool; true also blocks scheduled-task invocation
paths:                        # Optional: glob patterns that limit where the skill activates
  - "src/**/*.ts"
shell: bash                   # Optional: bash or powershell for inline !`command` blocks
hooks:                        # Optional: skill-scoped lifecycle hooks (same schema as settings.json)
  PreToolUse:
    - matcher: Write
      hooks:
        - type: command
          command: ./scripts/validate.sh
  Stop:
    - hooks:
        - type: command
          command: ./scripts/verify.sh
          once: true
---

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 2d ago Changed · +5 lines 14cc402626d4
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 32c448c33082
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 140 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 50bac6f73112

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skill-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository claude-world/director-mode-lite (80 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,516 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 2026-08-30.

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