automation-validator

automation-validator is a skill for Claude Code from MacroMan5/AutomationHelper_plugins. It costs 77 tokens per session (4,386 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for JSON files that describe automated workflows in Power Automate, n8n, Make, Zapier, and similar platforms. It reviews whether the file is valid and fits the selected platform.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a workflow before importing or deploying it, check platform requirements, and identify reliability, performance, or security issues.
Why use it?
It can find malformed JSON, missing error handling, security risks such as embedded credentials, and other problems before deployment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the automation-helper plugin — 6 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a workflow before importing or deploying it, check…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/macroman5/automationhelper_plugins/automation-validator
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.

Any agent
npx skills add MacroMan5/AutomationHelper_plugins --skill automation-validator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MacroMan5/AutomationHelper_plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install automation-helper, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,386 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.
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 $0.00077 $0.04386
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02193
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00877
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00439

Measured 6d ago against content hash 264f47c7c8df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automation-validator 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.

.claude/skills/automation-validator/SKILL.md · 713 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 713 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Automation Workflow Validator

Comprehensive pre-deployment validator for automation workflow JSON definitions across multiple platforms.

Supported Platforms

  • Power Automate (Microsoft)
  • n8n (Open-source)
  • Make (formerly Integromat)
  • Zapier
  • Other JSON-based workflow platforms

Purpose

Validates automation workflows against:

  1. Syntax correctness - Valid JSON, proper structure
  2. Platform compliance - Schema, required fields, valid operations (platform-specific)
  3. Best practices - Error handling, performance, reliability
  4. Security - Hardcoded credentials, injection risks
  5. Documentation compliance - Connector/node limits, known constraints

When This Skill Activates

Triggers on:

  • "Validate this workflow JSON"
  • "Check this workflow JSON before deployment"
  • "Review my workflow JSON for [platform]"
  • "Is this flow ready to paste into Power Automate/n8n/Make?"
  • "Validate my n8n workflow"
  • "Lint this automation"
  • "Pre-deployment check"
  • Workflow JSON files - Any JSON with workflow/flow/automation context (examples: flow.json, workflow.json, scenario.json, automation.json, fixed_flow.json)

Validation Checklist

1. Syntax Validation

JSON Structure:

  • Valid JSON syntax (balanced brackets, proper escaping)
  • No trailing commas
  • Proper string escaping for expressions
  • No invalid characters

Power Automate Schema:

  • Correct $schema URL
  • Required root elements: definition, schemaVersion
  • Parameters include $connections
  • Valid contentVersion format

Structure:

{
  "definition": {
    "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Logic/schemas/2016-06-01/workflowdefinition.json#",
    "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
    "parameters": { /* Required */ },
    "triggers": { /* Required */ },
    "actions": { /* Required */ },
    "outputs": {}
  },
  "schemaVersion": "1.0.0.0"
}

2. Triggers Validation

Required Fields:

  • At least one trigger defined
  • Trigger has "type" field
  • Trigger has "inputs" object
  • Valid trigger types: Request, Recurrence, ApiConnection, etc.

Read the full file on GitHub · 713 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. 6d ago First seen · 713 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 264f47c7c8df

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automation-validator is a skill published in the GitHub repository MacroMan5/AutomationHelper_plugins (3 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 4,386 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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