#!/usr/bin/env node // Durable guard for `.claude/skills/**/SKILL.md` (#2163). // // `AGENTS.md` is loaded in full on every turn, so its rules are unconditionally // present. A skill is conditional — its body loads only when it is invoked — so // if a skill stops being reachable we lose behavior SILENTLY, and nothing in the // normal workflow surfaces that. This is the check that does. // // What it asserts, cheapest first: // 1. Every SKILL.md's frontmatter parses the way Claude Code parses it. This // is the whole-class failure: malformed YAML (or a fence that is not the // first line) loads the body with EMPTY metadata, so `/name` still works — // a manual spot check passes — while the description the model matches // against is gone and the skill never auto-fires again. // 2. Every skill declares its invocation mode explicitly, so the set that has // to fire on its own is knowable by reading the files rather than inferred. // 3. Every model-invoked skill has committed eval cases, including negatives. // Cases are run by `npm run skills:eval`, which needs the Claude CLI and is // therefore NOT in the gate; the cases existing is what this checks. // 4. The skill LISTING stays inside its recorded character budget. Claude Code // truncates the listing when it overflows, dropping the least-invoked // entries first — which are exactly the model-invoked skills. // // It additionally runs `claude plugin validate` when that CLI is on PATH. That // is the authoritative parse, but it cannot be a requirement: the CLI is absent // in CI and on a contributor's machine, and a guard that skips itself wherever // it actually runs is worse than one that reimplements the check. import { readFileSync, readdirSync, existsSync, statSync } from "node:fs"; import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; import path from "node:path"; import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url"; import { compareVersions, parseClaudeVersion, PLUGIN_VALIDATE_MIN_VERSION, parseSkill, validateEvalCases, listingCost, LISTING_BUDGET, } from "./lib/skill-manifest.mjs"; const ROOT = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), ".."); const DEFAULT_SKILLS_DIR = path.join(ROOT, ".claude", "skills"); /** Directory names under `.claude/skills` that contain a SKILL.md. */ export function skillDirs( dir, { readdir = readdirSync, stat = statSync } = {}, ) { return readdir(dir) .filter((n) => !n.startsWith(".")) .filter((n) => stat(path.join(dir, n)).isDirectory()) .sort(); } function main(argv = process.argv.slice(2)) { // An explicit directory is the seam the fixture tests drive; without it this // guard could only ever be exercised against the repo's own (green) skills, // so it could stop enforcing anything while every unit test stayed green. const override = argv[0]; const SKILLS_DIR = override ? path.resolve(override) : DEFAULT_SKILLS_DIR; const failures = []; if (!existsSync(SKILLS_DIR)) { console.error( `verify:skills — ${path.relative(ROOT, SKILLS_DIR)} does not exist.`, ); process.exit(1); } const dirs = skillDirs(SKILLS_DIR); if (dirs.length === 0) { console.error("verify:skills — no skills found; the skill set is gone."); process.exit(1); } const parsed = []; for (const dir of dirs) { const file = path.join(SKILLS_DIR, dir, "SKILL.md"); if (!existsSync(file)) { failures.push(`${dir}: no SKILL.md`); continue; } const skill = parseSkill(dir, readFileSync(file, "utf8")); for (const e of skill.errors) failures.push(`${dir}/SKILL.md: ${e}`); if (skill.errors.length > 0) continue; parsed.push(skill); if (skill.modelInvoked) { const evalsFile = path.join(SKILLS_DIR, dir, "evals", "evals.json"); if (!existsSync(evalsFile)) { failures.push( `${dir}: model-invoked skills need committed eval cases at evals/evals.json`, ); continue; } let cases; try { cases = JSON.parse(readFileSync(evalsFile, "utf8")); } catch (e) { failures.push(`${dir}/evals/evals.json: not valid JSON — ${e.message}`); continue; } for (const e of validateEvalCases(dir, cases)) { failures.push(`${dir}/evals/evals.json: ${e}`); } } } const cost = listingCost(parsed); if (cost > LISTING_BUDGET) { failures.push( `the skill listing costs ${cost} chars, over the recorded budget of ${LISTING_BUDGET}. ` + "Tighten a description, or raise the budget deliberately in scripts/lib/skill-manifest.mjs.", ); } if (failures.length > 0) { console.error(`verify:skills — ${failures.length} problem(s):\n`); for (const f of failures) console.error(" " + f); console.error("\nSee AGENTS.md → Maintaining the skills."); process.exit(1); } const modelInvoked = parsed.filter((s) => s.modelInvoked).map((s) => s.name); console.log( `verify:skills — OK: ${parsed.length} skills, ${modelInvoked.length} model-invoked ` + `(${modelInvoked.join(", ")}); listing ${cost}/${LISTING_BUDGET} chars.`, ); if (override) return; // The authoritative parse, when it is available — strictly a bonus. An older // CLI does not have `plugin validate` and exits nonzero on it as an unknown // command, which would fail the MANDATORY gate for a contributor whose only // sin is not having upgraded (Copilot). So gate on the version that // introduced it and skip below it, reserving a failure for a validator that // actually rejected the skills. const probe = spawnSync("claude", ["--version"], { encoding: "utf8" }); if (probe.error || probe.status !== 0) { console.log( "verify:skills — `claude` CLI not usable here; skipped `claude plugin validate`.", ); return; } const version = parseClaudeVersion(probe.stdout ?? ""); if ( version === null || compareVersions(version, PLUGIN_VALIDATE_MIN_VERSION) < 0 ) { console.log( `verify:skills — \`claude\` ${version?.join(".") ?? "(unreadable version)"} predates ` + `${PLUGIN_VALIDATE_MIN_VERSION.join(".")}; skipped \`claude plugin validate\`.`, ); return; } const res = spawnSync("claude", ["plugin", "validate", ".claude/skills"], { cwd: ROOT, stdio: "inherit", }); if (res.status !== 0) { console.error("\nverify:skills — `claude plugin validate` failed."); process.exit(1); } } if ( process.argv[1] && path.resolve(process.argv[1]) === fileURLToPath(import.meta.url) ) { main(); }