markdown-lint

A workflow for checking Markdown files, which are plain-text documents with formatting symbols, against consistent style rules. It can set up markdownlint and optional pre-commit checks that run before changes are committed to Git.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure Markdown rules, check or fix files, remove horizontal rules while preserving front matter, and copy the setup to another repository.
Why use it?
It catches formatting problems across a repository and can repair many existing errors in batches.

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/niracler/skill/markdown-lint
Any agent
npx skills add niracler/skill --skill markdown-lint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/niracler/skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,340 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 $0.00141 $0.02340
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01170
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00468
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00234

Measured 2d ago against content hash e3ad0dceb160, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

markdown-lint 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check-horizontal-rules.sh), 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/developer-workflows/skills/markdown-lint/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Markdown Lint

为仓库配置 markdown 格式检查(markdownlint + 水平线禁止)和 pre-commit hook。

Prerequisites

Tool Type Required Install
Node.js cli Yes brew install node or nodejs.org
markdownlint-cli2 cli Yes npx markdownlint-cli2 (no install needed)
pre-commit cli No uv tool install pre-commit --with pre-commit-uv or pipx install pre-commit or brew install pre-commit

Do NOT proactively verify these tools on skill load. If a command fails due to a missing tool, directly guide the user through installation and configuration step by step.

When to Use

  • 新仓库初始化:第一次为仓库添加 markdown 格式标准
  • 检查/修复:运行格式检查或批量修复现有文件
  • 迁移:将格式标准复制到另一个仓库

不适用:

  • 单文件检查:直接运行 npx markdownlint-cli2 file.md,不需要走 setup 流程
  • 文章内容审校:使用 writing-assistant skill(该 skill 的步骤 6 会引用本 skill;需安装 personal-knowledge plugin)

Setup 流程

1. 检查仓库状态

# 已有配置?跳到「检查/修复」
ls .markdownlint.json .pre-commit-config.yaml 2>/dev/null

2. 创建配置文件

.markdownlint.json

{
  "default": true,
  "MD013": false,
  "MD024": { "siblings_only": true },
  "MD033": false,
  "MD035": false,
  "MD036": false,
  "MD041": false,
  "MD060": false
}

关闭规则说明:

规则 理由
MD013 CJK 文本和表格不适合行长度限制
MD033 允许 <br>, <small> 等 inline HTML
MD035 水平线完全禁止,由独立脚本检查
MD036 允许 bold 作视觉标题
MD041 YAML frontmatter 导致首行非标题
MD060 表格管道符间距样式过于严格

按需追加禁用(根据仓库内容酌情添加):

规则 场景 理由
MD025 仓库含导入/vendor 文档 协议文档常有多个 H1
MD045 仓库含导入/vendor 文档 vendor 文档图片无 alt text
MD051 CJK 锚点链接 #_中文标题 格式的片段不被识别
MD056 复杂参考表格 合并行/变长列的表格触发误报

.pre-commit-config.yaml

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint-cli2
    rev: v0.21.0  # 运行 pre-commit autoupdate 获取最新
    hooks:
      - id: markdownlint-cli2
  - repo: local
    hooks:
      - id: no-horizontal-rules
        name: no horizontal rules outside frontmatter
        entry: scripts/check-horizontal-rules.sh
        language: script
        types: [markdown]

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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. 2d ago First seen · 209 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A e3ad0dceb160

Subscribe to this mod's changes

markdown-lint is a skill published in the GitHub repository niracler/skill (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 2,340 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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