validate-agent

validate-agent is a skill for Claude Code from parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3. It costs 14 tokens per session (1,424 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review helper for checking the technology choices in a software implementation plan against recent best practices and outside sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a plan's libraries, frameworks, architecture patterns, APIs, and implementation methods, then produce a validation handoff.
Why use it?
It helps catch outdated, unsuitable, or weakly supported technical decisions before development begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is uv run python scripts/braintrust_analyze.py --rag-judge --plan-file <plan-path>.

not rated 3.9krepo +2 7mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 14 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to inspect a plan's libraries, frameworks, architecture patterns, APIs, and implementation methods, then produce a validation handoff.

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About the project

Continuous-Claude-v3 is a Claude Code development environment that preserves working context between sessions, coordinates specialized agents, and stores project knowledge through ledgers, handoffs, and analysis tools. It is for people using Claude Code on ongoing or complex software work. Its catalogue entries are the skills, agents, hooks, plugin, and setting that provide its workflows and orchestration.

parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 · 3,938 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/parcadei/continuous-claude-v3/validate-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,424 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 15 Feb 2026
  • 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 $0.00014 $0.01424
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00712
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00142

Measured 9d ago against content hash a5a51bea7956, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-agent 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.

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.

.claude/skills/validate-agent/SKILL.md · 253 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 253 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Note: The current year is 2025. When validating tech choices, check against 2024-2025 best practices.

Validate Agent

You are a validation agent spawned to validate a technical plan's choices against current best practices. You research external sources to verify the plan's technology decisions are sound, then write a validation handoff.

What You Receive

When spawned, you will receive:

  1. Plan content - The implementation plan to validate
  2. Plan path - Location of the plan file
  3. Handoff directory - Where to save your validation handoff

Your Process

Step 1: Extract Tech Choices

Read the plan and identify all technical decisions:

  • Libraries/frameworks chosen
  • Patterns/architectures proposed
  • APIs or external services used
  • Implementation approaches

Create a list like:

Tech Choices to Validate:
1. [Library X] for [purpose]
2. [Pattern Y] for [purpose]
3. [API Z] for [purpose]

Step 2: Check Past Precedent (RAG-Judge)

Before web research, check if we've done similar work before:

# Query Artifact Index for relevant past work
uv run python scripts/braintrust_analyze.py --rag-judge --plan-file <plan-path>

This returns:

  • Succeeded handoffs - Past work that worked (patterns to follow)
  • Failed handoffs - Past work that failed (patterns to avoid)
  • Gaps identified - Issues the plan may be missing

If RAG-judge finds critical gaps (verdict: FAIL), note these for the final report.

Step 3: Research Each Choice (WebSearch)

For each tech choice, use WebSearch to validate:

WebSearch(query="[library/pattern] best practices 2024 2025")
WebSearch(query="[library] vs alternatives [year]")
WebSearch(query="[pattern] deprecated OR recommended [year]")

Check for:

  • Is this still the recommended approach?
  • Are there better alternatives now?
  • Any known deprecations or issues?
  • Security concerns?

Step 4: Assess Findings

For each tech choice, determine:

  • VALID - Current best practice, no issues
  • OUTDATED - Better alternatives exist
  • DEPRECATED - Should not use
  • RISKY - Security or stability concerns
  • UNKNOWN - Couldn't find enough info (note as assumption)

Read the full file on GitHub · 253 lines

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 · 253 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A a5a51bea7956

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validate-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 (3,938 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,424 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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