Agent skill

Consistency Check

by swingerman in swingerman/engineer

A skill your agent uses to validate DAE artifacts for schema correctness and cross-artifact consistency.

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Install Consistency Check

skills CLI
$ npx skills add swingerman/engineer --skill consistency-check -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install swingerman/engineer consistency-check --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/swingerman/engineer.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/engineer/skills/consistency-check .claude/skills/consistency-check && 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
consistency-check
GitHub stars
154
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
534 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
27
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses to validate DAE artifacts for schema correctness and cross-artifact consistency.

  • Works in 3 steps: Run the judgment checks (below) — the… → Report — errors first, then warnings;… → Handoff — emit a summary.
  • Validate DAE artifacts for schema correctness and cross-artifact consistency
  • SKILL.md covers When to use, Workflow, Handoff and References
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Consistency Check is an agent skill from swingerman/engineer. Use to validate DAE artifacts for schema correctness and cross-artifact consistency. Triggers — "/engineer.consistency-check", "check consistency", "validate the artifacts", "are the specs and ACs in sync", "audit this feature".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Disciplined Agentic Engineering — a methodology kit for Claude Code: acceptance-test-first specs, explicit checkpoints, and autonomy you can actually leave running. The engineer… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Validate DAE artifacts for schema correctness and cross-artifact consistency
  • — /engineer.consistency-check
  • Check consistency
  • Validate the artifacts

Example prompts

  • “/engineer.consistency-check”
  • “check consistency”
  • “validate the artifacts”
  • “/consistency-check”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Run the judgment checks (below) — the rows the script cannot decide.
  2. Report — errors first, then warnings; each with location + a suggested fix (which skill to run). Do not apply fixes.
  3. Handoff — emit a summary.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 32947eb. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • notion.so

    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

Consistency Check loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 62 tokens; SKILL.md has 534 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~62
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 swingerman/engineer at commit 32947eb, republished under its MIT licence (© swingerman). 534 words, ~1,315 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/consistency-check/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
consistency-check
description
Use to validate DAE artifacts for schema correctness and cross-artifact consistency. Triggers — "/engineer.consistency-check", "check consistency", "validate the artifacts", "are the specs and ACs in sync", "audit this feature".

consistency-check

Cross-artifact validation for DAE — the methodology's take on Speckit's /analyze. Read-only: reports inconsistencies and suggests fixes; never mutates. Any agent may run it (mechanical validation, not judgment-heavy verification). checkpoint: null.

When to use

Before major pipeline transitions and as a CI gate.

  • Feature scope — /engineer.consistency-check <slug> — one feature's artifacts
  • Project scope — /engineer.consistency-check --project — project-wide invariants

Not for: fixing inconsistencies (run the suggested fix skill); within-one-artifact ambiguity (clarify); code risk (crap-analyzer).

Workflow

  1. Resolve + load — resolve the methodology root + manifest via ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dae_resolve.py (see references/resolving.md). Feature scope: load every artifact in features/NNN-<slug>/ + CHARTER.md. Project scope: load CHARTER.md + every feature.md frontmatter. For identifier lookups (does symbol X actually exist in the code?), prefer LSP find-definitions / workspace-symbols when an LSP MCP capability is available; fall back to grep + Read otherwise. See ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/code-lookup.md. 1.5. Run the mechanical checks first — ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dae_ontology.py <feature-dir> (or --project). It executes every constraint that is a set operation over structured data — enumerations, functional properties, parent/child inverses, cycle detection, AC↔scenario coverage closure, Principle 7 disjointness — deterministically. Take its findings as given; do not re-derive them by reading the artifacts. They are tagged in the tables below as (ontology). See ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/ontology.md.
  2. Run the judgment checks (below) — the rows the script cannot decide.
  3. Report — errors first, then warnings; each with location + a suggested fix (which skill to run). Do not apply fixes.
  4. Handoff — emit a summary.
Feature-scope checks
CheckSeverity
feature.md slug matches folder name (ontology)error
feature.md mandatory frontmatter present; status: ready ⇒ autonomy_level set (ontology)error
acs.md AC IDs unique + sequential; ac_count matches actual (ontology)error
Every AC has a covering @AC-N spec scenario; no scenario tags an AC that doesn't exist (ontology)error
acs.md ACs in domain language (implementation-leakage heuristic)warning
acs.md ACs cover the feature.md outcomewarning
relevant_adrs reference ADRs that existerror
spec.md and .build/spec.json agreeerror
plan.md Charter Check: every ⚠️ deviation has a matching amendmenterror
Validation method honored? — if feature.md declares a non-default validation_method, plan.md's Test strategy section must reference it (canary phase, dashboard names, rollback trigger, etc. as relevant)warning
Verification handoffs: agent_id ≠ implementer's (Principle 7) (ontology)error
tracker_ref resolves on the configured trackerwarning
Handoff completeness: no checkpoint marked done in progress.md lacks a complete handofferror
parent_feature set ⇒ parent resolves and lists this in child_features (ontology)error / warning
Show full SKILL.md (157 more words)Show less

The handoff-completeness check is the after-the-fact sweep for handoff-as-gate (Foundation Design Section 5): run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dae_handoff.py <feature-dir> — it flags any checkpoint marked done with a missing, interrupted, or unmet-exit_criteria handoff.

Project-scope checks
CheckSeverity
CHARTER.md section 5 roles == manifest.team.default_roleserror
manifest.yml schema valid; enum values legalerror
Feature folder numbering monotonic; no reuse (ontology)warning
One feature branch per feature; one feature per roadmap item (ontology)warning
parent_feature chains do not cycle (ontology)error
ADR not referenced by any feature in N months (N from manifest, default 6)warning
Every features/*/ has a non-empty feature.mdwarning
team.default_roles includes verifier when independence enforcederror

Handoff

Emit per ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/handoff-summary.md. checkpoint: null; artifacts: []. Feature scope → handoff in that feature's handoffs/; --project scope → handoff in .engineer/handoffs/. Any errors → human_action_needed: yes. recommended_next: resolve via clarify / feature-edit / plan, then re-run.

References

  • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/ontology.md — the (ontology) rows: what dae_ontology.py decides and why the rest stays here
  • Foundation Design — every schema checked here
  • Tracker Integration — tracker_ref resolution

© swingerman, 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 engineer/skills/consistency-check of swingerman/engineer.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 32947eb

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Questions about Consistency Check

What does Consistency Check do?

A skill your agent uses to validate DAE artifacts for schema correctness and cross-artifact consistency. Consistency Check is an agent skill from swingerman/engineer. Use to validate DAE artifacts for schema correctness and cross-artifact consistency.

When should I use Consistency Check?

Consistency Check fits situations like: validate DAE artifacts for schema correctness and cross-artifact consistency; — /engineer.consistency-check; check consistency; validate the artifacts.

How do I install Consistency Check in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Consistency Check in Codex?

Run `npx skills add swingerman/engineer --skill consistency-check -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (engineer/skills/consistency-check in swingerman/engineer) into .agents/skills/consistency-check in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Consistency Check 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 swingerman/engineer --skill consistency-check -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/consistency-check, .gemini/skills/consistency-check, .github/skills/consistency-check and .opencode/skills/consistency-check in your project.

What does Consistency Check need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Consistency Check is instructions for the agent only.

Does Consistency Check access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: notion.so. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Consistency Check 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 Consistency Check use?

Consistency Check 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 Consistency Check use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Consistency Check?

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Who maintains Consistency Check?

swingerman (a GitHub user) maintains it in swingerman/engineer, which has 154 GitHub stars. The repository holds 27 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 23, 2026.

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