check-refs

check-refs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from event4u-app/agent-config. It costs 35 tokens per session (974 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A check for broken links between project skills, rules, commands, guidelines, and context documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after cross-referenced files change and before submitting a change that may affect those links.
Why use it?
Renaming, moving, or deleting project files can leave references pointing to documents that no longer exist.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/event4u-app/agent-config/check-refs
Any agent
npx skills add event4u-app/agent-config --skill check-refs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/event4u-app/agent-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 check-refs

README.md
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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 974 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 $0.00035 $0.00974
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00487
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00097

Measured 6d ago against content hash 352b9e400a54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-refs 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.

src/skills/check-refs/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

check-refs

When to use

Use this skill when:

  • A skill, rule, command, guideline, or context has been renamed or deleted
  • Linking a newly added artifact from elsewhere in src/
  • Preparing a PR that touches cross-references between agent artifacts
  • CI's check-refs job failed and the broken reference needs to be located

Do NOT use when:

  • Only the body of a single file changed and no names or paths were touched
  • Checking frontmatter shape or required sections — use lint-skills instead
  • Verifying condensed vs uncondensed pairs — use bash scripts/condense.sh --check instead

Procedure

1. Inspect the scope of recent changes

Identify whether any artifact was renamed, moved, or removed since the last clean run. Cross-reference checks are relevant only when names or paths shift; pure body edits cannot break references.

2. Dispatch via the runtime layer

Invoke the skill through the runtime dispatcher so the execution: block in this skill's frontmatter governs the call:

./scripts-run src/scripts/runtime_dispatcher run --skill check-refs

The dispatcher resolves the request, the shell handler runs ./scripts-run src/scripts/check_references, captures stdout/stderr, and returns a typed ExecutionResult.

3. Verify the result

Check the returned ExecutionResult:

  • exit_code: 0 → all cross-references resolve
  • exit_code: 1 → at least one broken reference — read stdout for file, line, and the offending ref, then fix the source or update the target
  • status: timeout → the checker exceeded timeout_seconds — investigate
  • status: error → runner or script missing — confirm ./scripts-run and src/scripts/check_references.ts are available at the repository root

Output format

  1. One-line summary: success | failure | timeout | error, exit code, duration in milliseconds
  2. Count of broken references found, if any
  3. First 10 broken references with file:line → missing-target
  4. Next action: fix references, re-run the skill, or surface stdout for review

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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 · 108 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 352b9e400a54

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check-refs is a skill published in the GitHub repository event4u-app/agent-config (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 974 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 2026-08-31.

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