plugin-validator

A checker for Claude Code add-on packages, including their manifest, folder structure, metadata, and dependencies. A manifest is the configuration file that tells the tool what the package contains.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check a plugin’s plugin.json file, agents, commands, skills, frontmatter, versions, paths, permissions, and cross-references. It is intended for diagnosing broken or incorrectly structured plugins.
Why use it?
It finds invalid configuration, missing referenced files, broken links between components, incompatible settings, and dependency problems that can prevent an add-on from loading or working.

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/poindexter12/waypoint/plugin-validator
Any agent
npx skills add poindexter12/waypoint --skill plugin-validator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/poindexter12/waypoint

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,371 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 $0.00064 $0.01371
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00685
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00137

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8a6b1e11ebae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plugin-validator 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.

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.

claire/skills/plugin-validator/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plugin Validator

Validation Checks

1. Manifest Validation

  • plugin.json exists at correct location
  • Valid JSON syntax
  • Required fields present (name, description, version)
  • Semantic versioning format (X.Y.Z)
  • Array fields properly formatted (agents, commands, skills)
  • No duplicate entries

2. Structure Validation

  • Referenced agents exist at specified paths
  • Referenced commands exist at specified paths
  • Referenced skills exist at specified paths
  • File paths are relative (not absolute)
  • No broken file references
  • Directory structure follows conventions

3. Frontmatter Validation

  • YAML syntax is valid
  • Required fields present (name, description)
  • Field values match allowed types
  • Tools list is valid (if specified)
  • Model value is valid (sonnet|opus|haiku|inherit)
  • No conflicting or deprecated fields

4. Dependency Validation

  • No circular dependencies between agents/skills
  • Skill references resolve correctly
  • Tool permissions are valid
  • Cross-references between components exist
  • External dependencies documented

5. Configuration Validation

  • No conflicting settings between components
  • File permissions are readable
  • No duplicate agent/command names
  • Version consistency across files
  • Repository metadata accurate

Process

  1. Identify plugin location

    # Find plugin.json
    find . -name "plugin.json" -o -name ".claude-plugin/plugin.json"
    
  2. Run manifest validation

    • Parse JSON syntax
    • Check required fields
    • Validate semver format
    • Verify array structures
  3. Validate file structure

    • Read manifest file references
    • Check each referenced file exists
    • Verify paths are relative
    • Check directory conventions
  4. Check frontmatter

    • For each agent/command file
    • Parse YAML frontmatter
    • Validate required fields
    • Check field value constraints

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 2d ago First seen · 213 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 8a6b1e11ebae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plugin-validator is a skill published in the GitHub repository poindexter12/waypoint (7 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,371 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.