lint-connector

lint-connector is a skill for Claude Code from EliBarak12/Elliot. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,222 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for checking an Elliot connector file and fixing the issues it reports. A connector is a definition of tools an agent can call.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to lint a connector, read every reported issue, and update the connector code. It can also help improve tool descriptions and checks problems such as descriptions that are too short or unbounded data queries.
Why use it?
It catches missing or weak connector descriptions and validation problems before the connector is used. The workflow classifies findings as errors, warnings, or optional improvements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the elliot plugin — 10 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to lint a connector, read every reported issue, and update the connector code. It can also help improve tool descriptions and checks problems such as descriptions that are too short or unbounded data queries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elibarak12/elliot/lint-connector
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 EliBarak12/Elliot --skill lint-connector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EliBarak12/Elliot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install elliot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,222 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 $0.00034 $0.01222
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00611
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00122

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7ec484df091f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lint-connector 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/lint-connector/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lint Connector Workflow

Connector files

!ls connectors/*.connector.json 2>/dev/null || echo "(no connectors found)"

Steps

1. Run lint

elliot_lint_connector lints the connector currently built in the session and takes no arguments. If nothing has been built yet, call elliot_build_connector first (use elliot_list_tools to see what tools are registered). To lint an existing connector file, load it into the session and build it before linting.

2. Read every issue

For each issue reported:

Severity Action
error Must fix — connector won't pass validation
warning Should fix — hurts agent accuracy
info Optional — quality improvement

3. Fix the issues by code

The linter emits stable UPPER_SNAKE codes (the exact strings you'll see in the output). The common ones and how to fix them:

Code Severity Fix
DESCRIPTION_TOO_SHORT error Write ≥15 chars: "<Verb> <object>. Use when <context>. Returns <fields>. <constraint>."
DESCRIPTION_MISSING_VERB warn Start the description with a verb — "Return…", "List…", "Create…", "Count…".
UNBOUNDED_SELECT error A SELECT * with no WHERE or LIMIT. Add LIMIT :limit or a filter parameter.
SELECT_STAR_NO_LIMIT warn Replace SELECT * with an explicit column list, or add a LIMIT.
MISSING_PAGINATION warn List-style READ tool with no LIMIT/cursor — add LIMIT :limit or a limit/offset/cursor parameter.
PARAMETER_NAME_GENERIC / _TOO_SHORT warn Rename to something specific: customer_id, order_status.
PARAMETER_MISSING_DESCRIPTION warn Add a description so agents know what to pass.
PARAMETER_SHOULD_BE_ENUM warn Declare the fixed value set as an enum.
FILTER_SEMANTICS_UNCLEAR warn In the parameter's own description, state exact / contains / prefix / case-insensitive matching.
WRITE_TOOL_DESCRIPTION info Add the mutation verb ("Creates…", "Deletes…") to a WRITE/ACTION tool.
SENSITIVE_FIELD_EXPOSED error A field the product intent marked never-expose appears in this tool's SQL/output or its forwarded rest_query_params / api_mapping body/query params. Drop or redact it.
SECRET_IN_URL error A secret is embedded in source.url. Move it to auth.secret_key as {{ env:VAR }}.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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 · 88 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 7ec484df091f

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lint-connector is a skill published in the GitHub repository EliBarak12/Elliot (11 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,222 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.