validate-code

validate-code is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JimmyPaolini/codebase. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,900 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for running the code-quality checks used by this codebase, including formatting, linting, type checking, unused-code detection, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after code changes, when adding files or dependencies, or when asked to validate the project’s quality.
Why use it?
It finds common problems before a commit or pull request, reducing failures caused by inconsistent formatting, type errors, or quality checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/jimmypaolini/codebase/validate-code
Any agent
npx skills add JimmyPaolini/codebase --skill validate-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JimmyPaolini/codebase

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,900 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 $0.00096 $0.01900
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00950
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00190

Measured yesterday against content hash 9f5d08eba0a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-code 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/skills/validate-code/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Validate Code

Run the codebase's full automated quality suite against your changes before committing. This prevents pre-commit hook failures, failed CI jobs, and wasted triage cycles.

When to Use This Skill

  • After finishing implementation of any task — TypeScript, Python, Markdown, YAML, JSON
  • Before invoking the submit-changes skill
  • When asked to "validate", "check code quality", "run linting", or "verify changes are clean"
  • Anytime you add new dependencies, exports, or files (Knip detects unused ones)

What lint-codebase Covers

The lint-codebase Nx target hangs every quality tool off dependsOn, so one invocation builds one task graph:

Tool Purpose Configuration
oxfmt + prettier Code formatting configuration/oxfmt.config.ts, configuration/prettier.config.ts
eslint + oxlint Linting (TS/JS) project eslint.config.ts, configuration/oxlint.config.ts
ruff Format + lint (Python) pyproject.toml
tsc --noEmit TypeScript type checking project tsconfig.jsonconfiguration/tsconfig.base.json
pyright + ty Python type checking pyproject.toml
knip Unused TS files, exports, deps configuration/knip.config.ts
fallow dead-code The same, workspace-wide in one pass configuration/fallow.config.jsonc
vulture Unused Python code configuration/vulture_whitelist.py
cspell Spell checking configuration/cspell.config.yaml
markdownlint Markdown linting configuration/.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc
yamllint YAML linting configuration/yamllint.yaml

Validation Workflow

Step 1 — Auto-fix

Run lint-codebase in write mode to automatically fix all auto-fixable issues (formatting, linting, unused-code whitelist entries, sync checks):

pnpm exec nx affected --target=lint-codebase --configuration=write --base=main

For new/untracked files that nx affected won't detect, target the relevant project(s) directly:

pnpm exec nx run <project>:lint-codebase --configuration=write

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. yesterday First seen · 152 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 9f5d08eba0a3

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validate-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository JimmyPaolini/codebase (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,900 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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