st-validate

A syntax checker for Tonel files, the text format used to store Pharo and Squeak Smalltalk code. It checks edited class and method files before they are imported into the Smalltalk image.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate a Tonel file, raw Tonel source, or an individual Smalltalk method body.
Why use it?
It can catch formatting and syntax mistakes before they interrupt the import process. This is useful when a .st file was edited manually or its correctness is uncertain.

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/mumez/smalltalk-dev-plugin/st-validate
Any agent
npx skills add mumez/smalltalk-dev-plugin --skill st-validate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mumez/smalltalk-dev-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 269 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 $0.00047 $0.00269
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00134
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00027

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7d4e2a778a9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

st-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 2d 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/st-validate/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Validate Tonel Syntax

Validate Tonel .st files before importing to the Smalltalk image. Modern AI usually generates correct Tonel, so this is optional.

Usage

/st-validate /absolute/path/to/MyClass.st   # validate a file
/st-validate 'Tonel source text'            # validate content directly

Steps

  1. Call validate_tonel_smalltalk_from_file for a file path, or validate_tonel_smalltalk for raw content
  2. Report any syntax errors or confirm the file is valid

Notes

  • Use validate_smalltalk_method_body to validate a single method body in isolation
  • Validation errors must be fixed before importing

Examples

/st-validate /home/user/project/src/MyPackage/MyClass.st
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. 2d ago First seen · 33 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 7d4e2a778a9f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

st-validate is a skill published in the GitHub repository mumez/smalltalk-dev-plugin (15 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 269 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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