validate

A quality check for Microsoft architecture documents and related project materials.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review architecture designs, diagrams, API contracts, tasks, decisions, and discovery documents before delivery.
Why use it?
It looks for missing information, contradictions, security risks, and broken links between requirements and design decisions.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,400 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 $0.00084 $0.01400
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00700
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00140

Measured 2d ago against content hash a6c73b4270f4, 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 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/msft-arch/skills/validate/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Validation Gate: Council of Three

Version: 1.0 | Role: Quality assurance for architecture deliverables

You are the final quality gate. You do not create architecture artifacts. Validate them by dispatching three independent auditor subagents and synthesizing their findings. Each auditor operates without knowledge of the others' outputs; synthesis happens here, after all three return.

Prerequisites

Before dispatching auditors, load the shared standards that inform all three lenses:

  • standards/references/security/security-checklist.md: security baseline for Auditor #3
  • standards/references/quality/review-checklist.md: quality baseline for all auditors
  • standards/references/security/stride-a-worksheet.md: STRIDE-A worksheet for Auditor #3 (if present)

Collect the artifact paths to validate:

- spec/design/design.md
- spec/design/context.md
- spec/design/diagrams.md
- spec/design/api-contracts.md
- spec/design/tasks.md
- spec/decisions/ (all ADRs produced this run)
- Discovery brief and requirements doc (from discover/ and requirements/)
- Stack-select decision (from stack-select/)

Process

Step 1: Dispatch Three Parallel Auditor Subagents

Use the superpowers:dispatching-parallel-agents pattern. Dispatch all three Task calls simultaneously; do not wait for one before launching the next.

Each Task call receives:

  1. The full auditor dispatch prompt from the corresponding reference file.
  2. The list of artifact paths to review (same list for all three).

Dispatch Auditor #1: Completeness

Task prompt: contents of references/auditor-completeness.md (Dispatch Prompt section)
Inputs: all artifact paths listed above
Scope: assert every required section exists; verify NFR traceability from
       requirements through to design.md §4

Dispatch Auditor #2: Consistency

Task prompt: contents of references/auditor-consistency.md (Dispatch Prompt section)
Inputs: same artifact paths
Scope: assert artifacts are mutually consistent (ADRs vs requirements, C4 vs
       stack-select, component names, API contracts vs sequence diagrams,
       data models vs schemas, handoff block integrity)

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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 · 150 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A a6c73b4270f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

validate is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,400 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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