skill-validator

You can validate a generated SKILL.md file by applying a deterministic 5-check rubric that enforces frontmatter conformance, citation existence, duplication avoidance, description clarity, and safety patterns. The validator outputs a structured JSON verdict indicating whether to promote, review, or reject the candidate.

A deterministic quality gate for skill metadata is a fixed validation rubric that checks candidate SKILL.md files without LLM calls. You need it after generating a candidate skill to prevent insecure or low-quality candidates from advancing, ensuring cost-free and reproducible validation.

Yes, you can check skill descriptions without LLM API calls by using a deterministic validator that applies a fixed 5-check rubric to a candidate SKILL.md file. This ensures cost-free and reproducible validation for frontmatter conformance, citations, duplication, clarity, and safety patterns.

You enforce citation existence and duplication avoidance in markdown skills by applying a deterministic 5-check rubric to the candidate SKILL.md file. This validation process verifies citations and prevents duplicated content, outputting a structured JSON verdict to guide your promotion decision.

The limitation of using a fixed rubric for skill validation is that it only evaluates five specific areas: frontmatter conformance, citation existence, duplication avoidance, description clarity, and forbidden patterns. It makes no LLM calls, so it cannot assess semantic nuance or complex logic outside this deterministic 5-check rubric.