zod-guide

zod-guide is a skill for Claude Code from xonovex/platform. It costs 87 tokens per session (438 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for using Zod 4 to define schemas, which are written descriptions of the shape and rules of data. It focuses on checking data at runtime in TypeScript, such as input received by an API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate API inputs and other data boundaries, compose schemas, apply defaults and refinements, and infer TypeScript types from schemas.
Why use it?
TypeScript types disappear when the program runs, so they cannot by themselves check outside data. Zod schemas provide runtime checks and can also produce matching TypeScript types.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the xonovex-skill-zod plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to validate API inputs and other data boundaries, compose schemas, apply defaults and refinements, and infer TypeScript types from schemas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xonovex/platform/zod-guide
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 xonovex/platform --skill zod-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xonovex/platform

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install xonovex-skill-zod, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 zod-guide

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 438 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 $0.00087 $0.00438
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00044

Measured 3d ago against content hash b32487570609, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zod-guide 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 3d 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.

packages/skill/skill-zod/zod-guide/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Zod Coding Guidelines

Requirements

  • Zod ≥ 4.0

Essentials

Gotchas

  • optional() makes a field accept undefined; nullable() accepts null. They're orthogonal, combine with .nullish() for both
  • Refinements (.refine) don't narrow the output type: TypeScript still sees the broader input type unless you pair with .transform

Progressive Disclosure

Guidelines

Migration from Zod v3

  • Read references/migration-v4.md - Load when migrating from Zod v3, replacing z.string().uuid() patterns, or using deprecated validators
Files

What ships with it

6 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. 3d ago First seen · 34 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A b32487570609

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zod-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository xonovex/platform (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 438 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 2026-09-08.

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