validate-metadata

validate-metadata is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jmagly/aiwg. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,253 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for the metadata files that define AIWG agents, skills, commands, and behaviors. It reports invalid fields, line numbers, and suggested fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate all extensions, one definition file, or a selected directory as part of development or release preparation.
Why use it?
It finds malformed extension definitions before they cause problems when used or released. The result is a clear pass-or-fail check instead of manual file inspection.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

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/jmagly/aiwg/validate-metadata
Any agent
npx skills add jmagly/aiwg --skill validate-metadata
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmagly/aiwg

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,253 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 $0.00026 $0.01253
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00626
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00125

Measured yesterday against content hash 2c9c5ceb0e8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-metadata 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.

agentic/code/addons/aiwg-utils/skills/validate-metadata/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Validate Metadata

You validate all AIWG extension definitions (agents, skills, commands, behaviors) against the metadata schema. You report errors with field names, line numbers, and remediation hints — and return a clean pass/fail summary.

Triggers

Alternate expressions and non-obvious activations (primary phrases are matched automatically from the skill description):

  • "are my extensions valid?" → run full metadata validation
  • "check my agent definitions" → validate agent metadata specifically
  • "is this skill definition correct?" → validate single extension file
  • "prep for release" → validate metadata as part of pre-release checks

Trigger Patterns Reference

Pattern Example Action
Validate request "validate metadata" Run aiwg validate-metadata
Check request "check metadata" Run aiwg validate-metadata
Validate extensions "validate extensions" Run aiwg validate-metadata
Quality check "metadata quality" Run aiwg validate-metadata
Single file "validate this agent file" Run aiwg validate-metadata <path>
Directory-scoped "validate just security skills" Run aiwg validate-metadata --recursive agentic/code/frameworks/security-engineering/skills
CI mode "validate metadata for CI" Run aiwg validate-metadata --ci --format json --strict

Behavior

When triggered:

  1. Extract intent:

    • Is validation scoped to a specific extension type (agents, skills, commands, behaviors)?
    • Is a specific file path mentioned?
    • Is verbose output needed?
  2. Run the appropriate command:

    # Default: validate all extensions
    aiwg validate-metadata
    
    # Recursive validation of a directory
    aiwg validate-metadata --recursive agentic/code/frameworks/security-engineering/skills
    
    # Strict CI output
    aiwg validate-metadata --ci --format json --strict
    
    # Validate a single file
    aiwg validate-metadata agentic/code/addons/aiwg-utils/skills/my-skill/SKILL.md
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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 · 154 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 2c9c5ceb0e8a

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validate-metadata is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmagly/aiwg (209 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,253 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 2026-09-05.