source-command-hdd-validate

A validation step for the HDD workflow, started with `/hdd:validate`. It checks the claims in a draft architecture decision record against available evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run automated and manual checks against a staging ADR, review the evidence for each hypothesis, and produce a validation report.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish supported conclusions from assumptions before a technical decision is accepted.

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/kastalien-research/thoughtbox/source-command-hdd-validate
Any agent
npx skills add Kastalien-Research/thoughtbox --skill source-command-hdd-validate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kastalien-Research/thoughtbox

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 196 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 $0.00014 $0.00196
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00098
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00020

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9493243791e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

source-command-hdd-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 3d 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.

.agents/skills/source-command-hdd-validate/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

source-command-hdd-validate

Use this skill when the user asks to run the migrated source command hdd-validate.

Command Template

/hdd:validate

Validate or falsify ADR hypotheses with evidence.

Usage

/hdd:validate <staging-adr-path>

Delegation

  • Primary module: ./modules/validate-brief.md
  • Handoff schema: ../_contracts/delegation-handoff-schema.md

Inputs

  • staging_adr_path
  • test_targets
  • paths_to_inspect
  • acceptance_checks

Steps

  1. Delegate automated and manual validation checks.
  2. Review hypothesis outcomes and evidence quality.
  3. Confirm manual verification results with user checkpoint.

Output

  • Validation report with per-hypothesis outcome.
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. 3d ago First seen · 43 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 9493243791e4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

source-command-hdd-validate is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kastalien-Research/thoughtbox (64 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 196 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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