link-validation

link-validation is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (827 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workspace checker that finds broken links in Markdown files and flags links that violate path rules. Markdown is a plain-text format commonly used for documentation, and lychee is the link-checking tool it runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scanning documentation, checking external and local links, detecting absolute paths or excessive directory traversal, and writing JSON-style results.
Why use it?
It catches dead links and unsafe or invalid paths before documentation is committed or published.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the link-tools plugin — 2 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit Scanning documentation, checking external and local links, detecting absolute paths or excessive directory traversal, and writing JSON-style results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/link-validation
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill link-validation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install link-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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 link-validation

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 827 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 99
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00827
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00083

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7a5dab8c0581, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

link-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 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.

plugins/link-tools/skills/link-validation/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Validates markdown links in your workspace using lychee.

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Checking for broken links in markdown files
  • Validating link paths before committing documentation
  • Detecting path policy violations (absolute paths, excessive traversal)

What It Does

When invoked, this skill:

  1. Discovers all markdown files in your workspace
  2. Runs lychee to check for broken links
  3. Lints paths for policy violations (absolute paths, excessive traversal)
  4. Outputs JSON results for programmatic consumption

Requirements

  • lychee installed (brew install lychee)
  • Python 3.11+ and uv

Output

Results are written to .link-check-results.md in your workspace:

# Link Check Results

**Correlation ID**: `01JEGQXV8KHTNF3YD8G7ZC9XYK`

## Lychee Link Validation

No broken links found.

## Path Policy Violations

No path violations found.

Path Policy Rules

Rule Severity Description
NO_ABSOLUTE_PATHS Error Filesystem absolute paths not allowed
NO_PARENT_ESCAPES Warning Excessive ../ may escape repository
MARKETPLACE_RELATIVE Warning Plugins should use ./ relative paths

Configuration

Override the default lychee config by placing .lycheerc.toml in your workspace root.

See config/lychee.toml for the default configuration.

References

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 102 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 7a5dab8c0581

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link-validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (62 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 827 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 2026-09-05.