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Agent skill

Piv Validate

by coleam00 in coleam00/skills

Runs this project's full validation suite — tests, type checks, and linting across every part of the stack — then reports overall health.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Piv Validate

skills CLI
$ npx skills add coleam00/skills --skill piv-validate -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install coleam00/skills piv-validate --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coleam00/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/piv-validate .claude/skills/piv-validate && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
piv-validate
GitHub stars
676
Token cost
~781 tokens
SKILL.md length
383 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
34
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Runs this project's full validation suite — tests, type checks, and linting across every part of the stack — then reports overall health.

  • Works in 6 steps: Tests → Type check → Lint / format check → …
  • Tasks that involve Linting and formatting
  • SKILL.md covers 1. Tests, 2. Type check, 3. Lint / format check and 4. Repeat per surface, plus 3 more sections
  • Calls uv

What it does

Piv Validate is an agent skill from coleam00/skills. Runs this project's full validation suite — tests, type checks, and linting across every part of the stack — then reports overall health. Use before committing, before opening a PR, or after finishing a chunk of work to confirm zero regressions.

Its SKILL.md is about 780 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Linting and formatting. The repository describes itself as: The agent skills I actually use to build software with coding agents. The PIV loop, planning, worktrees, and the meta-skills for building your own AI Layer. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Linting and formatting

Example prompts

  • “/piv-validate”

Requirements

  • Docker

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Tests
  2. Type check
  3. Lint / format check
  4. Repeat per surface
  5. Optional — live smoke test
  6. Summary report

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 847be08. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • uv

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use uv, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Piv Validate loads about 781 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 383 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~65
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~781

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from coleam00/skills at commit 847be08, republished under its MIT licence (© coleam00). 383 words, ~781 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/piv-validate/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
piv-validate
description
Runs this project's full validation suite — tests, type checks, and linting across every part of the stack — then reports overall health. Use before committing, before opening a PR, or after finishing a chunk of work to confirm zero regressions.

Validate

Run every check this project has and report a single PASS/FAIL verdict.

⚠️ Make this yours first

This skill is a template. The command list below is a placeholder — replace it with the commands your project actually uses. That is the entire point of a custom checker: it is the one skill that cannot be generic, because it wraps your stack's CLIs.

Find your real commands in package.json scripts, pyproject.toml, Makefile, justfile, docker-compose.yml, your CI workflow, or the README — then delete these and paste yours in.

Two things to get right, because they are the usual reason a checker silently lies:

  1. Working directory. Many tools only discover their config from the current directory. If your config lives in backend/pyproject.toml, the command is cd backend && uv run pytest, not uv run pytest from the repo root.
  2. Cross-platform. Avoid POSIX-only idioms if anyone on the team is on Windows — lsof, python3, and background-then-kill are the common offenders.

Run the checks in order. Keep going after a failure so the report covers everything, and capture the output of any command that fails.

1. Tests

bash
# REPLACE: your test command, run from the right directory
<your test command>

Expected: all tests pass.

2. Type check

bash
# REPLACE: e.g. mypy, tsc --noEmit, go vet
<your type-check command>

Expected: no type errors.

3. Lint / format check

bash
# REPLACE: e.g. ruff check, biome check, eslint
<your lint command>

Expected: clean.

4. Repeat per surface

A full-stack project has more than one of each. Add a section per surface — backend tests, backend types, backend lint, frontend tests, frontend types, frontend lint — so a single command covers the whole repo.

Show full SKILL.md (145 more words)Show less

5. Optional — live smoke test

Only when the change touches routing, middleware, or startup; skip it when your test suite already exercises the app in-process.

bash
# REPLACE: start your app, hit one endpoint, confirm the status code, stop it
<your run command>

Prefer starting the server in a second shell over backgrounding and killing it from inside this skill — the background-and-kill idiom is not portable.

6. Summary report

Report each check with a ✅ or ❌, then an overall verdict:

  • One line per check
  • Overall: PASS or FAIL

For every ❌, include the failing command and the relevant output. Do not fix anything here — this skill reports; fixing is a separate step.

Notes

  • Keep this skill fast. It runs before every commit; if a step gets slow, that is a signal to fix the slow step, not to drop it from the checker.
  • A checker that cannot fail is worthless. Once your commands are wired in, break something on purpose and confirm this skill reports ❌.

© coleam00, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/piv-validate of coleam00/skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 847be08

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Questions about Piv Validate

What does Piv Validate do?

Runs this project's full validation suite — tests, type checks, and linting across every part of the stack — then reports overall health. Piv Validate is an agent skill from coleam00/skills. Runs this project's full validation suite — tests, type checks, and linting across every part of the stack — then reports overall health.

When should I use Piv Validate?

Piv Validate fits situations like: tasks that involve Linting and formatting.

How do I install Piv Validate in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add coleam00/skills --skill piv-validate -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/piv-validate in coleam00/skills) into .claude/skills/piv-validate in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Piv Validate in Codex?

Run `npx skills add coleam00/skills --skill piv-validate -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/piv-validate in coleam00/skills) into .agents/skills/piv-validate in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Piv Validate in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add coleam00/skills --skill piv-validate -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/piv-validate, .gemini/skills/piv-validate, .github/skills/piv-validate and .opencode/skills/piv-validate in your project.

What does Piv Validate need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Piv Validate needs the command-line tools its instructions call (uv). Our summary lists: Docker.

Does Piv Validate access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use uv, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Piv Validate safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Piv Validate use?

Piv Validate is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Piv Validate use?

About 781 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Piv Validate?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Piv Validate: Go Pedantry (chromedp/chromedp, 13k stars), Kedro Babysit (kedro-org/kedro, 11k stars), Trellis Check (anjiemo/SunnyBeach, 178 stars) and WooCommerce Dev Cycle (woocommerce/woocommerce, 11k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Piv Validate?

coleam00 (a GitHub user) maintains it in coleam00/skills, which has 676 GitHub stars. The repository holds 34 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: coleam00/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.