validate-skill

validate-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dinglebear-ai/dendrite. It costs 104 tokens per session (937 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A validator for Claude Code skills, which are instruction packages that guide an AI coding assistant. It checks the skill file and adds checks for activation phrases, options, registration, and related settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate a Claude Code skill and its plugin registration, including trigger phrases, argument hints, and invocation settings.
Why use it?
A skill may look complete but fail to activate correctly or be missing required plugin metadata. This catches those problems before the skill is used.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the vibin plugin — 40 skills, 1 command shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install vibin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 1 command.

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-skill

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dinglebear-ai/dendrite/validate-skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dinglebear-ai/dendrite/validate-skill.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 937 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00104 $0.00937
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00468
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00094

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6860e484d80f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-skill 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 3d 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/vibin/skills/validate-skill/SKILL.md · 76 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 76 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 6860e484d80f

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validate-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository dinglebear-ai/dendrite (1 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 937 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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