post-start-validation

post-start-validation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ruah-dev/ruah-orch. It costs 30 tokens per session (2,456 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general post-task validation skill that examines changed files, runs the project's required checks, records useful knowledge, and verifies deployment when applicable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Validating frontend, backend, infrastructure, and documentation changes after a coding task.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of finishing with untested code, missed project rules, or undocumented changes.

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/ruah-dev/ruah-orch/post-start-validation
Any agent
npx skills add ruah-dev/ruah-orch --skill post-start-validation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruah-dev/ruah-orch

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 post-start-validation

README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,456 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 $0.00030 $0.02456
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01228
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00491
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00246

Measured 5d ago against content hash f01b1914e489, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

post-start-validation 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 5d 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/post-start-validation/SKILL.md · 298 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 298 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/post-start-validation

Run after completing any task. Discovers what changed, applies governance gates, captures knowledge, commits and verifies.


0. Shell Rule

Detect OS. Use Git Bash syntax on Windows (forward slashes, /dev/null).


1. Determine Scope

git diff --name-only HEAD 2>/dev/null || git status --short

Classify changes by detecting file patterns:

  • Frontend?.ts, .tsx, .js, .jsx, .css, .vue, .svelte files
  • Backend?.java, .kt, .py, .go, .rs, .rb files
  • Infrastructure?Dockerfile, docker-compose*, k8s/, .github/workflows/, *.tf
  • Docs-only?.md files only outside source directories

Skip rules: Docs-only → skip code checks. Infra-only → skip local checks.


2. Read Governance Gates

Read .claude/governance.md

The governance file defines which gates to run and in what order. If it specifies "biome → tsc → build" — run exactly that. If it specifies "pytest" — run that. The gates are project-specific; this skill is not.


3. Run Gates

3.0. Workspace-aware gate execution

If the discovery cache indicates a workspace:

  1. Read root governance gates (from workspace root .claude/governance.md)
  2. Identify which members have changes: check git diff --name-only HEAD paths
  3. For changed members with their own governance: read member governance, merge with root gates
  4. Execute merged gates in order: root cross-stack gates first, then member-specific gates

Gate annotations (v2 format)

Path-scoped sections: ### Frontend (path: frontend/) Before running any command in this section, cd into the specified directory. After the section completes, cd back to the project root. Example:

(cd frontend/ && npx biome check .) || exit 1

Conditional sections: ### TypeScript (if: tsconfig.json) Skip the ENTIRE section if the referenced file does not exist at project root. Check before running any gate in the section:

[ -e tsconfig.json ] || echo "Skipping TypeScript gates (no tsconfig.json)"

Read the full file on GitHub · 298 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. 5d ago First seen · 298 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A f01b1914e489

Subscribe to this mod's changes

post-start-validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository ruah-dev/ruah-orch (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,456 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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