validation-strategies

validation-strategies is a skill for Claude Code from zircote-plugins/auto-harness. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,012 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Guidance for checking whether software output matches an expected result, including choices such as exact matches, text containment, and regular expressions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing assertions, investigating validation failures, handling flaky tests, or comparing expected and actual results.
Why use it?
It helps avoid validations that are too strict, too loose, or unreliable when outputs vary.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the auto-harness plugin — 3 skills, 5 commands, 2 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing assertions, investigating validation failures, handling flaky tests, or comparing expected and actual results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zircote-plugins/auto-harness/validation-strategies
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 zircote-plugins/auto-harness --skill validation-strategies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote-plugins/auto-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install auto-harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 5 commands, 2 agents, 1 hook.

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 validation-strategies

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zircote-plugins/auto-harness/validation-strategies"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zircote-plugins/auto-harness/validation-strategies.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,012 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 unknown 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 $0.00055 $0.02012
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01006
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00402
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00201

Measured 8d ago against content hash 82f7d8cc99ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validation-strategies 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 8d 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.

skills/validation-strategies/SKILL.md · 331 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 331 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 82f7d8cc99ea

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validation-strategies is a skill published in the GitHub repository zircote-plugins/auto-harness (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,012 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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