validate-clap

validate-clap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from iPlug3/audio-plugin-dev-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,400 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for CLAP audio plug-ins, which are software instruments and effects in the .clap format used by music applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run clap-validator against a .clap file, show only failed checks, or run a selected test while debugging.
Why use it?
It helps detect problems in a CLAP plug-in before testing it in an audio host or distributing it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the audio-plugin-validators plugin — 6 skills 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/iplug3/audio-plugin-dev-skills/validate-clap
Any agent
npx skills add iPlug3/audio-plugin-dev-skills --skill validate-clap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iPlug3/audio-plugin-dev-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install audio-plugin-validators, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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-clap

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/iplug3/audio-plugin-dev-skills/validate-clap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/iplug3/audio-plugin-dev-skills/validate-clap.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,400 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 $0.00061 $0.01400
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00700
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00140

Measured 4d ago against content hash 784fc5280d9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-clap 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 4d 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/audio-plugin-validators/skills/validate-clap/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAP Validator

Plugin Install Locations

clap-validator accepts a direct path, but these are the standard install locations where hosts scan for CLAP plugins.

Platform User Location System Location
macOS ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/ /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Common\CLAP\ C:\Program Files\Common Files\CLAP\
Linux ~/.clap/ /usr/lib/clap/ or /usr/local/lib/clap/

Instructions

  1. Install clap-validator (see Installation below)
  2. Locate the built .clap plugin bundle (in your build output directory or one of the standard locations above)
  3. Run: clap-validator validate /path/to/plugin.clap
  4. To see only failures: clap-validator validate --only-failed /path/to/plugin.clap
  5. For debugging, run a specific test in-process: clap-validator validate --in-process --test-filter <test> /path/to/plugin.clap

Installation

Option 1: Download Pre-built Binary

  1. Download from GitHub Releases
  2. Extract and place in your PATH:
    • macOS / Linux: /usr/local/bin/
    • Windows: Add to PATH or place in project directory

macOS only: Builds are unsigned. Remove the quarantine attribute:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /path/to/clap-validator

Option 2: Build from Source

# Requires Rust (all platforms)
cargo install clap-validator

# Or build from source
git clone https://github.com/free-audio/clap-validator
cd clap-validator
cargo build --release
# Binary at target/release/clap-validator (macOS/Linux)
# Binary at target\release\clap-validator.exe (Windows)

Basic Usage

# Validate a CLAP plugin
clap-validator validate /path/to/plugin.clap

# Show only failed tests
clap-validator validate --only-failed /path/to/plugin.clap

# Validate multiple plugins
clap-validator validate /path/to/plugin1.clap /path/to/plugin2.clap

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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. 4d ago First seen · 179 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 784fc5280d9c

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validate-clap is a skill published in the GitHub repository iPlug3/audio-plugin-dev-skills (88 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,400 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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