mention-validate

mention-validate is a skill for Claude Code from jmagly/aiwg. It costs 13 tokens per session (698 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker that finds every @-mention in a codebase and verifies that it points to an existing file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a repository, produce a validation report, enforce failure on broken mentions, or save the results.
Why use it?
It catches broken links before reports and traceability checks rely on missing files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Only kernel-listed skills (`aiwg-doctor`, `aiwg-refresh`, `aiwg-status`, `aiwg-help`, `use`, `steward`) are directly invokable as slash commands. See [skill-dis.

Good fit Use it to scan a repository, produce a validation report, enforce failure on broken mentions, or save the results.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmagly/aiwg
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jmagly/aiwg/mention-validate

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 698 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00013 $0.00698
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00349
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00070

Measured 9d ago against content hash e8652018e388, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mention-validate 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 9d 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.

agentic/code/addons/aiwg-utils/skills/mention-validate/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill access pattern (post-kernel-pivot, 2026.5+)

Skill names referenced in this document are AIWG skills, not slash commands. Most are not kernel-listed and cannot be invoked as /skill-name by the platform. Reach them via:

aiwg discover "<capability>"
aiwg show skill <name>

Only kernel-listed skills (aiwg-doctor, aiwg-refresh, aiwg-status, aiwg-help, use, steward) are directly invokable as slash commands. See skill-discovery rule.

@-Mention Validation

Validate that all @-mentions in codebase resolve to existing files.

Usage

/mention-validate                    # Validate current directory
/mention-validate --strict           # Fail on any broken mention
/mention-validate --output report.md # Write report to file

Options

Option Default Description
--target . Directory to validate
--strict false Exit with error on broken mentions
--output stdout Write report to file

Process

  1. Scan all files for @-mention patterns
  2. Extract @-mention paths
  3. Resolve paths relative to repo root
  4. Report broken/valid mentions

Output Format

@-Mention Validation Report
===========================

✓ Valid Mentions: 42
✗ Broken Mentions: 3

Broken Mentions:
  src/auth/login.ts:5
    @.aiwg/requirements/UC-999.md → NOT FOUND

  .aiwg/architecture/sad.md:23
    @.aiwg/requirements/NFR-PERF-005.md → NOT FOUND

  test/integration/api.test.ts:12
    @$AIWG_ROOT/src/services/api-old.ts → NOT FOUND (deleted?)

Summary: 3 broken mentions in 3 files

Exit Codes

Code Meaning
0 All mentions valid
1 Broken mentions found (with --strict)

CLI Equivalent

aiwg validate-mentions [--target <dir>] [--strict]
  • mention-wire - Add @-mentions
  • mention-lint - Lint @-mention style
  • mention-report - Generate traceability report

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 9d ago First seen · 97 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A e8652018e388

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mention-validate is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmagly/aiwg (211 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 698 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.