validate-phase

validate-phase is a skill for Claude Code from SienkLogic/plan-build-run. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,488 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A post-build quality check that looks for missing tests and other gaps between a development phase and its validation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing test coverage, finding failed verification commands, assigning missing test work, and recording the results.
Why use it?
It helps reveal requirements that are not tested or checks that fail before the work is considered complete.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the pbr plugin — 44 skills, 71 commands, 18 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing test coverage, finding failed verification commands, assigning missing test work, and recording the results.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add SienkLogic/plan-build-run
Claude Code
/plugin install pbr

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pbr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 71 commands, 18 agents, 3 hooks.

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-phase

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sienklogic/plan-build-run/validate-phase/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sienklogic/plan-build-run/validate-phase)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sienklogic/plan-build-run/validate-phase"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sienklogic/plan-build-run/validate-phase/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for validate-phase

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sienklogic/plan-build-run/validate-phase"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sienklogic/plan-build-run/validate-phase.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,488 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 $0.00024 $0.02488
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00995
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00249

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 03f3687ddf8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-phase 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 1mo 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.

plugins/pbr/skills/validate-phase/SKILL.md · 363 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 363 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

STOP -- DO NOT READ THIS FILE. You are already reading it. This prompt was injected into your context by Claude Code's plugin system. Using the Read tool on this SKILL.md file wastes tokens. Begin executing Step 1 immediately.

/pbr:validate-phase -- Post-Build Validation Quality Gate

References: @references/ui-brand.md

You are the orchestrator for /pbr:validate-phase. This skill identifies validation gaps in a completed phase -- requirements without tests, tests that fail, or verify commands without automated coverage -- and spawns the nyquist-auditor agent to fill them. Your job is to collect gaps, present them, delegate test generation, and write VALIDATION.md.

Context Budget

Reference: skills/shared/context-budget.md for the universal orchestrator rules. Reference: skills/shared/agent-type-resolution.md for agent type fallback when spawning Task() subagents.

Additionally for this skill:

  • Minimize reading subagent output -- read only VALIDATION.md frontmatter for summaries after the auditor completes.
  • Delegate all test generation to the nyquist-auditor agent. Never write tests yourself.

Step 0 -- Immediate Output

Before ANY tool calls, display this banner:

+==============================================================+
|  PLAN-BUILD-RUN > VALIDATING PHASE {N}                       |
+==============================================================+

Where {N} is the phase number from $ARGUMENTS. Then proceed to Step 1.

Multi-Session Sync

Before any phase-modifying operations (writing VALIDATION.md, spawning agents), acquire a claim:

acquireClaim(phaseDir, sessionId)

If the claim fails (another session owns this phase), display: "Another session owns this phase. Use /pbr:progress to see active claims."

On completion or error (including all exit paths), release the claim:

releaseClaim(phaseDir, sessionId)

Prerequisites

  • .planning/config.json exists
  • Phase has been built: SUMMARY.md files exist in .planning/phases/{NN}-{slug}/

Read the full file on GitHub · 363 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. 1mo ago First seen · 363 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 03f3687ddf8e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

validate-phase is a skill published in the GitHub repository SienkLogic/plan-build-run (19 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,488 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.