skill-check

skill-check is a skill for Claude Code from ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,030 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only checker for validating SKILL.md files against the Agent Skills specification and related authoring practices. It checks the file’s structure, wording, naming, and trigger behavior before publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate a skill before publishing, diagnose why it does not trigger, and find structural, semantic, or naming issues.
Why use it?
It catches formatting and content problems that can stop a skill from loading, triggering, or meeting publishing requirements. The check does not change the files it reviews.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to validate a skill before publishing, diagnose why it does not trigger, and find structural, semantic, or naming issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas/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 ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas --skill skill-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,030 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.
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 $0.00026 $0.01030
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00515
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00103

Measured 7d ago against content hash 96f951602ec3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 7d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/skill-check/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SkillCheck

Overview

Validate SKILL.md files against the agentskills specification and Anthropic best practices. Catches structural errors, semantic contradictions, naming anti-patterns, and quality gaps in a single read-only pass.

When to Use This Skill

  • Use when user says "check skill", "skillcheck", or "validate SKILL.md"
  • Use when reviewing a skill before publishing to a marketplace
  • Use when debugging why a skill doesn't trigger correctly
  • Use when onboarding a team to skill authoring standards
  • Do NOT use for anti-slop detection, security scanning, or token analysis; use SkillCheck Pro for those

How It Works

Step 1: Parse

Read the target SKILL.md file and extract YAML frontmatter.

Step 2: Validate

Apply all Free tier checks in order:

Category Checks What it catches
Structure (1.x) Name format, description WHAT+WHEN, allowed-tools, categories, XML injection Malformed frontmatter, missing fields
Body (2.x) Line count, hardcoded paths, stale dates, empty sections, deprecated syntax, MCP tool qualification Content quality issues
Naming (3.x) Vague terms, single-word names, gerund suggestions Poor discoverability
Semantic (4.x) Contradictions, ambiguous terms, missing output format, wisdom/platitudes, misplaced triggers Logical inconsistencies
Quality (8.x) Examples, error handling, triggers, output format, prerequisites, negative triggers Strengths (positive patterns)

Step 3: Score

Calculate overall score (0-100). Penalties: critical = -20, warning = -5, suggestion = -1.

Step 4: Report

Return structured results: score, grade (Excellent/Good/Needs Work/Poor), issue list with check IDs, line numbers, messages, and fix suggestions.

Examples

Example 1: Validating a skill

User: check my skill at ~/.claude/skills/weekly-report/SKILL.md

SkillCheck output:
## weekly-report Check Results [FREE]

Score: 85/100 (Good)

### Warnings (2)
  - 1.2-desc-when (line 3): Description missing WHEN clause
  - 4.5-desc-no-triggers (line 3): Description lacks triggering conditions

### Suggestions (1)
  - 3.4-gerund-naming (line 2): Skill name could use gerund form

### Passed Checks: 28

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 7d ago First seen · 113 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 96f951602ec3

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skill-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas (8 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,030 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.