distributed-validators

A read-only monitor for distributed Ethereum validators. A distributed validator splits signing among several operators, with a threshold of them needed to approve a signature.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check cluster status, validator performance, operator information, exit coordination, and network-wide distributed-validator statistics.
Why use it?
It lets you inspect validator and operator health without creating clusters or sending exit requests.

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/obolnetwork/obol-stack/distributed-validators
Any agent
npx skills add ObolNetwork/obol-stack --skill distributed-validators
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ObolNetwork/obol-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,403 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00056 $0.01403
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00701
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00140

Measured yesterday against content hash ff4a59fc2246, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

distributed-validators scanned grade C with 2 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 yesterday.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -s "https://api.obol.tech/v1/lock/0x..." | python3 -c "

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

metadata: { "openclaw": { "emoji": "🔱", "requires": { "bins": ["curl"] } } }
internal/embed/skills/distributed-validators/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Distributed Validators

Monitor distributed validator (DV) clusters using the Obol API. Check cluster health, validator performance, operator status, and exit progress.

A distributed validator splits signing across multiple operators so no single party holds the full key. Obol's middleware (Charon) coordinates this. A cluster has N operators with a threshold (e.g. 3-of-4) needed to sign.

When to Use

  • Checking cluster health or validator performance
  • Looking up operator reputation or badges
  • Checking exit coordination progress
  • Exploring network-wide DV statistics

When NOT to Use

  • Creating clusters or running DKG (write operations)
  • Ethereum RPC queries — use ethereum-networks
  • Kubernetes diagnostics — use obol-stack

API Base

All endpoints are public, no authentication needed:

https://api.obol.tech

Key Identifiers

  • lock_hash: Identifies a cluster after key generation (post-DKG). 0x + 64 hex chars.
  • config_hash: Identifies a cluster definition before key generation (pre-DKG).
  • operator address: Standard Ethereum address, 0x + 40 hex chars.

Lookup by lock_hash

# Cluster config
curl -s "https://api.obol.tech/v1/lock/0x..."

# Validator performance (0-1 scale, >0.95 is healthy)
curl -s "https://api.obol.tech/v1/effectiveness/0x..."

# Validator beacon chain states
curl -s "https://api.obol.tech/v1/state/0x..."

# Exit status summary
curl -s "https://api.obol.tech/v1/exp/exit/status/summary/0x..."

# Detailed exit status
curl -s "https://api.obol.tech/v1/exp/exit/status/0x..."

Lookup by config_hash

# Pre-DKG cluster definition
curl -s "https://api.obol.tech/v1/definition/0x..."

# Get lock (if DKG completed)
curl -s "https://api.obol.tech/v1/lock/configHash/0x..."

Lookup by operator address

# All clusters for this operator
curl -s "https://api.obol.tech/v1/lock/operator/0x..."

# Reputation level (base < bronze < silver)
curl -s "https://api.obol.tech/v1/address/techne/0x..."

# Protocol badges (Lido, EtherFi, etc.)
curl -s "https://api.obol.tech/v1/address/badges/0x..."

# Terms & conditions signed?
curl -s "https://api.obol.tech/v1/termsAndConditions/0x..."

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. yesterday First seen · 160 lines · 56 tokens per session scan C ff4a59fc2246

Subscribe to this mod's changes

distributed-validators is a skill published in the GitHub repository ObolNetwork/obol-stack (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,403 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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