skill-check

skill-check is a skill for Claude Code from olgasafonova/SkillCheck-Free. It costs 92 tokens per session (4,436 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A validator for Claude Code skill files, including their structure and instructions. Claude Code is a coding assistant that can follow reusable skill files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check a single skill or a directory of skills against naming, structure, trigger, and content rules.
Why use it?
It identifies problems that could make a skill unclear, incomplete, or hard for an agent to use. Reports include issue severity, line numbers, and suggested fixes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the skillcheck-free plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to check a single skill or a directory of skills against naming, structure, trigger, and content rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/olgasafonova/skillcheck-free/skill-check
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 olgasafonova/SkillCheck-Free --skill skill-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/olgasafonova/SkillCheck-Free

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skillcheck-free, 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 skill-check

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/olgasafonova/skillcheck-free/skill-check/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/olgasafonova/skillcheck-free/skill-check)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/olgasafonova/skillcheck-free/skill-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/olgasafonova/skillcheck-free/skill-check/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for skill-check

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/olgasafonova/skillcheck-free/skill-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/olgasafonova/skillcheck-free/skill-check.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,436 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00092 $0.04436
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.02218
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00887
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00444

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5d7939476f6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-check 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 8d 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/skill-check/SKILL.md · 353 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 353 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SkillCheck (Free)

Check skills against Anthropic guidelines and the agentskills specification. This file contains Free tier validation rules.

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Prerequisites

  • Any AI assistant with file Read capability (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex CLI)
  • Works on any platform (Unix/macOS/Windows)
  • No special tools required (Read-only; the Invisible Unicode checks also use Grep, which stays read-only)
  • No environment variables or API keys required; the checks run fully offline

Interface

  • Input: path(s) to SKILL.md files, plus any references/*.md files in the same skill folder
  • Output: a validation report listing each issue with check ID, severity (Critical / Warning / Suggestion), line number, and fix; strengths reported in a separate list
  • Modes: runs standalone on a single skill or over a directory of skills, one report per skill

Workflow

Run the four stages in order for each target skill. Data flows forward: the file list from Step 1 feeds Step 2, the loaded content feeds Step 3, and the findings feed Step 4.

  • Step 1: Locate — find target SKILL.md file(s) with Glob
  • Step 2: Read — load the SKILL.md content and any references/ files
  • Step 3: Validate — apply each rule section below to the loaded content
  • Step 4: Report — list issues found with severity, line number, and fix

Execution limits: maximum iterations: 1 validation pass per skill. Stop after every located skill has been reported once; abort if a SKILL.md cannot be read and say so in the report. The check is read-only and idempotent — safe to re-run, and repeated runs on unchanged files produce identical reports.


Free Tier Validation Rules

Worked valid/invalid examples for every check below are in references/examples.md. The rules are here; the examples are one file away to keep this file scannable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 353 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 8d ago Changed · +34 lines 5d7939476f6d
  2. 12d ago First seen · 319 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A d76c5a573c2c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository olgasafonova/SkillCheck-Free (37 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 4,436 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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