validate-block-markup

validate-block-markup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nathanonn/agent-skills. It costs 193 tokens per session (2,044 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for checking serialized WordPress Gutenberg block markup, the HTML comment format WordPress uses to store block content. It can distinguish structural validity from whether the markup will work on another site.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for validating, diagnosing, or repairing standalone core-block markup with a fixed WordPress 7.0.2 reference library.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose invalid blocks and separates formatting errors from portability problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the validate-block-markup plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It is for validating, diagnosing, or repairing standalone core-block markup with a fixed WordPress 7.0.2 reference library.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nathanonn/agent-skills/validate-block-markup
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 nathanonn/agent-skills --skill validate-block-markup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nathanonn/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install validate-block-markup, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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-block-markup

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 193 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,044 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 17
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00193 $0.02044
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.01022
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00409
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00204

Measured 9d ago against content hash 75f709f7aae6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-block-markup 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (lib/cli-meta.cjs, lib/validator.cjs, scripts/validate-block-markup.cjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/validate-block-markup/skills/validate-block-markup/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Validate Block Markup

Check serialized block markup against the WordPress core block library running in Node.js. Treat structural validity and cross-site portability as separate verdicts, and treat review and repair as separate jobs.

Verdicts are produced against the core block definitions shipped with WordPress 7.0.2. Always tell the user which snapshot the verdict came from.

Requirements

  • Node.js 20.10 or newer, with npm on PATH.
  • First run installs a runtime into this skill's own directory: npm ci of 350 packages, about 545 MB on disk, roughly 25 seconds, and it needs npm registry access. Later runs are offline and instant. --help and --version answer immediately and install nothing.
  • The install never touches the user's project — no edits to their package.json, no lockfile changes, nothing written to a project-level node_modules. Everything lands in <skill-directory>/node_modules/.
  • That distinction matters less than it sounds: the common npx skills add layout puts this skill inside the user's repository, so those 545 MB land in their repo tree. Say so before the first run. The skill ships a .gitignore covering node_modules/ and rewrites it before installing if it went missing, so git stays clean without the user doing anything.
  • Most of the installed bytes are @wordpress/* packages, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. The skill's own code is MIT.
  • No WordPress, PHP, wp-env, Docker, Playwright, or browser is required.
  • Run validation only through scripts/validate-block-markup.cjs. Do not import the module into your own process.

Dependency Bootstrap

The executable bootstraps itself. Before loading the validator it checks <skill-directory>/node_modules/ for four pinned packages and, if any is absent or at a different version, runs this in the skill directory:

npm ci --omit=dev --ignore-scripts --no-audit --no-fund
Package Pinned version
@wordpress/blocks 15.13.1
@wordpress/block-library 9.40.2
@wordpress/block-serialization-default-parser 5.40.1
jsdom 26.1.0

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 116 lines · 193 tokens per session scan A 75f709f7aae6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

validate-block-markup is a skill published in the GitHub repository nathanonn/agent-skills (19 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 193 tokens to every session and 2,044 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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