#!/usr/bin/env python3 """Validate SKILL.md frontmatter against the strict agentskills.io standard. Reports, per skill, any deviation from tools/agentskills-skill.schema.json plus the two constraints JSON Schema can't express (name == parent dir; no angle brackets in frontmatter). READ-ONLY; never edits files. Usage: python3 tools/validate-agentskills.py # summary + report python3 tools/validate-agentskills.py --json # machine-readable JSON python3 tools/validate-agentskills.py --strict # exit 1 if any non-compliant """ import os, re, sys, json, glob from collections import Counter sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))) from skill_frontmatter import description_of, load_frontmatter, FrontmatterError REPO = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))) ALLOWED = {"name", "description", "license", "compatibility", "metadata", "allowed-tools"} NAME_RE = re.compile(r"^[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$") # The agentskills.io standard forbids reserved vendor words in a skill name. # tools/agentskills-skill.schema.json names this script as the enforcement # point, but the check was never actually implemented until now. RESERVED_NAME_WORDS = ("anthropic", "claude") def validate(path): slug = os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(path)) problems = [] try: fm = load_frontmatter(path) except FrontmatterError as exc: return slug, [str(exc)], [] keys = list(fm.keys()) if "name" not in keys: problems.append("missing required key: name") if "description" not in keys: problems.append("missing required key: description") name = str(fm.get("name", "") or "") if name: if not NAME_RE.match(name): problems.append(f"name not lowercase-kebab-case: {name!r}") if not (1 <= len(name) <= 64): problems.append(f"name length {len(name)} out of 1..64") if name != slug: problems.append(f"name {name!r} != directory {slug!r}") for reserved in RESERVED_NAME_WORDS: if reserved in name.lower(): problems.append(f"name contains reserved word {reserved!r}: {name!r}") desc = description_of(fm) if desc: if not (1 <= len(desc) <= 1024): problems.append(f"description length {len(desc)} out of 1..1024") elif "description" in keys: problems.append("description empty") # Angle brackets are an injection risk. Checking the PARSED values (rather # than the raw text) means YAML block-scalar indicators like `>-` are never # mistaken for content, so no indicator-stripping hack is needed. for key, value in fm.items(): if isinstance(value, str) and ("<" in value or ">" in value): problems.append(f"frontmatter value for {key!r} contains angle brackets " "(injection risk / not allowed)") break # Additional top-level keys are PERMITTED by the standard (name+description # are the only required fields). They are reported for information, not # counted as compliance failures. nonstd = [k for k in keys if k not in ALLOWED] return slug, problems, nonstd def main(): as_json = "--json" in sys.argv strict = "--strict" in sys.argv skills = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(REPO, "skills", "*", "SKILL.md"))) results = [] nonstd_hist = Counter() compliant = 0 for p in skills: slug, problems, nonstd = validate(p) nonstd_hist.update(nonstd) if not problems: compliant += 1 results.append({"skill": slug, "compliant": not problems, "problems": problems}) noncompliant = [r for r in results if not r["compliant"]] summary = { "total": len(skills), "compliant": compliant, "noncompliant": len(noncompliant), "nonstandard_key_frequency": dict(nonstd_hist.most_common()), } if as_json: print(json.dumps({"summary": summary, "results": results}, indent=1)) else: print(f"agentskills.io compliance: {compliant}/{len(skills)} compliant, " f"{len(noncompliant)} non-compliant") print("\nNon-standard top-level keys (count of skills carrying each):") for k, n in nonstd_hist.most_common(): print(f" {k:20s} {n}") # distinct problem types (excluding the per-key nonstd noise) other = Counter() for r in noncompliant: for pr in r["problems"]: if not pr.startswith("non-standard top-level key:"): other[re.sub(r':.*$', '', pr)] += 1 if other: print("\nOther (non-key) issues:") for k, n in other.most_common(): print(f" {k}: {n}") if strict and noncompliant: sys.exit(1) if __name__ == "__main__": main()