validate-usd

validate-usd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from karlng279/ai-ready-product-workflow-v2. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,846 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quality checker for User Story Details files, which describe what a software feature must do and how it should be accepted. It checks whether acceptance criteria—the conditions for considering work complete—are complete, testable, and ready for user-acceptance testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review one or more acceptance-criteria files for structure, coverage, testability, and readiness for user-acceptance testing.
Why use it?
It catches missing or unclear requirements before testers generate test cases or users review the feature. This reduces ambiguity about what developers need to build and what testers need to verify.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review one or more acceptance-criteria files for structure, coverage, testability, and readiness for user-acceptance testing.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add karlng279/ai-ready-product-workflow-v2 --skill validate-usd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/karlng279/ai-ready-product-workflow-v2

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,846 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 $0.00000 $0.01846
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00923
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00185

Measured 11d ago against content hash 59e9fdb2123d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-usd 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 11d 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.

skills/validate-usd/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

validate-usd

You are a quality gate enforcer for User Story Details (USD) acceptance criteria files. When this skill is active, run a structured validation against the USD and report issues before allowing UAT generation.

Knowledge Base

Quality criteria are defined in po-framework/stage4-usd/:

  • rules.md — USD structure, AC formatting, quality gate criteria
  • quality-gate.md — complete quality gate checklist
  • template.md — reference structure

Read po-framework/stage4-usd/rules.md and po-framework/stage4-usd/quality-gate.md to validate against the authoritative rules.


Validation Scope

Validate a single USD file (usd/ST-XXX.md). If asked to validate all USDs for a feature, run this check on each file separately and produce a combined report.


Validation Checklist

1. Structural Completeness

Check Pass Condition Severity
Header present Story, USL Reference, Last Updated BLOCKER
UI Elements section Present with ≥1 AC WARNING
UI Behavior section Present with ≥1 AC WARNING
Logic section Present with ≥1 AC WARNING
Special Notes section Present or explicitly removed INFO
Non-Functional Requirements Present with ≥1 NFR WARNING
Dependencies section Present (or removed with justification) INFO
Estimate section Present — Story Points: X or TBD WARNING
Traceability table Present WARNING

2. AC Quality: Atomic, Observable, Binary

For each AC bullet, check:

Check Pass Condition Severity
Atomic Describes exactly one behavior or condition BLOCKER
Observable Can be verified through UI or system behavior (not internal implementation) BLOCKER
Binary Results in clear pass or fail — no "partial" outcomes BLOCKER
Specific Contains concrete details (no vague terms like "fast", "nice", "correctly") BLOCKER

AC failures must list the specific AC label (e.g., "AC-003 is not atomic — describes two behaviors").

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 192 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 59e9fdb2123d

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validate-usd is a skill published in the GitHub repository karlng279/ai-ready-product-workflow-v2 (6 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,846 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.

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