MetaPrompts: Skill for Claude Code

.github/skills/validate-agent-files/SKILL.md

validate-agent-files is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JBurlison/MetaPrompts. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,489 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A checker for configuration files used by coding assistants, such as agents, skills, prompts, and instructions. It supports formats from tools including GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check agent files, diagnose configuration issues, or review changes before committing them.
Why use it?
It helps find formatting and structure problems that can stop assistant customisations from working correctly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

This is JBurlison/MetaPrompts's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on MetaPrompts itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything MetaPrompts configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to JBurlison/MetaPrompts. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JBurlison/MetaPrompts/main/.github/skills/validate-agent-files/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JBurlison/MetaPrompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,489 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 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 $0.00067 $0.01489
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00745
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00149

Measured 8d ago against content hash 25755c6abd59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-agent-files 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 8d 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.

.github/skills/validate-agent-files/SKILL.md · 204 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 204 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 25755c6abd59

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validate-agent-files is a skill published in the GitHub repository JBurlison/MetaPrompts (76 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,489 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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