validate-ws

validate-ws is a skill for Claude Code from johnkozaris/jko-claude-plugins. It costs 19 tokens per session (238 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bounded check for a WebSocket connection using an OpenID Connect bearer token. WebSockets are persistent connections that let a client and server exchange messages in both directions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to probe a configured WebSocket endpoint, check its handshake and first-message behavior, verify tokens and protocol details, and report the evidence.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish authentication, connection, protocol, response, timeout, and closing problems without treating every missing reply as a failure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the backend-validator plugin — 3 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/johnkozaris/jko-claude-plugins/validate-ws
Any agent
npx skills add johnkozaris/jko-claude-plugins --skill validate-ws
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnkozaris/jko-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install backend-validator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 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-ws

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/johnkozaris/jko-claude-plugins/validate-ws"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/johnkozaris/jko-claude-plugins/validate-ws.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 238 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 $0.00019 $0.00238
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00119
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00024

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1488978d0b67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-ws 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 6d 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/backend-validator/skills/validate-ws/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Validate WebSocket

Resolve WS_BASE_URL and WS_PATH (or a complete URL) from $ARGUMENTS and project configuration. Confirm before contacting production.

Discover or ask for the application's first message, expected response, subprotocol, and Origin policy. A generic JSON ping is not a WebSocket control ping and must not be invented.

Use $TOKEN or ${TOKEN_COMMAND:-scripts/get-backend-token.sh}; if missing, route through /backend-validator:get-dev-token.

Run a one-message probe with a bounded command timeout and verified websocat flags. Do not use verbose mode unless handshake evidence is needed, because it can expose Authorization.

Report handshake, send, reply, timeout, close, and protocol evidence separately. No reply is not automatically failure for a one-way protocol.

Load references/websocat-patterns.md for subprotocol, Origin, framing, reconnect, and failure-interpretation details.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 29 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 1488978d0b67

Subscribe to this mod's changes

validate-ws is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnkozaris/jko-claude-plugins (11 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 238 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 2026-08-30.

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