validate

validate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ronaknnathani/relay. It costs 108 tokens per session (1,246 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-readiness check for software changes. It compares the change with its acceptance criteria and runs the repository's own checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before release to check requirements, linting, type checks, tests, builds, and other checks defined by the repository.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork before shipping by giving a pass or fail result with the exact problems found.

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/ronaknnathani/relay/validate
Any agent
npx skills add ronaknnathani/relay --skill validate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ronaknnathani/relay

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 validate

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,246 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 $0.00108 $0.01246
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00623
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00125

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6d894fe22d4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate 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 4d 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/validate/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Validate

Decide whether a change is ready to ship and report the verdict — pass, or fail with the exact failures someone else can act on. The bar: every acceptance criterion from clarify/plan is demonstrably met, and every quality gate the repo defines is green, each shown by a command or observation rather than asserted. This skill is a gate, not a fixer: on failure it hands precise error-feedback to pr-fix or implement and stops. It does not edit code and does not ship.

Process

  1. Gather the acceptance criteria. Read the Success criteria from the clarify/plan artifacts. These are the goal-backward targets — what must be TRUE about the codebase. If no artifact exists, reconstruct the criteria from the task description and list them, so the verdict is checkable.
  2. Discover the repo's own gate commands. Find how this repo lints, type-checks, tests, builds, and audits — from its scripts/manifest/CI config (explore when it isn't obvious). Use the repo's actual commands; never substitute a generic command or invent a gate the repo doesn't define. A gate the repo doesn't have is skipped as not-applicable (and noted), not faked.
  3. Run every applicable quality gate — none skippable. The gates, in report order: lint → typecheck → unit tests → build → integration → e2e → security/audit → bundle-size. This sequence is the reporting/intent order, not a stop-on-first-failure barrier: run independent gates in parallel when the tooling allows (dispatch sub-agents when available; otherwise inline), never stop at the first failure, and capture every gate's output so the report is complete in one pass.
  4. Check each acceptance criterion, goal-backward. For each criterion, name the test, command, or direct observation that demonstrates it holds — and run/observe it. A criterion with no evidence is a FAIL, not a pass-by-assertion; "looks done" is not evidence.
  5. Render the verdict. PASS only if every applicable gate is green AND every acceptance criterion has passing evidence. Otherwise FAIL. Report, for each failure: the exact command run, its error output, and the location (file/line/criterion) — this is the error-feedback pr-fix or implement consumes. Do not attempt deep fixes here; a one-line obvious typo is still routed out, not silently patched.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 4d ago First seen · 79 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 6d894fe22d4b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

validate is a skill published in the GitHub repository ronaknnathani/relay (3 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,246 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 2026-08-31.

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