Validate Spec — Testing skill for Claude Code
Check an implementation against the project's specs and conventions.
How to install Validate Spec
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/stephennmiller-claude-code-guardrails-validate-spec.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stephennmiller/claude-code-guardrails/HEAD/.claude/commands/validate-spec.md -o ~/.claude/commands/stephennmiller-claude-code-guardrails-validate-spec.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Validate Spec does
description: Check an implementation against the project's specs and conventions argument-hint: "[file-or-feature]" allowed-tools: "Bash(git:*), Bash(npm:*), Read, Grep, Glob"
Validate: $ARGUMENTS
Audit an implementation against what the project says it should be. Read-only — report findings, do not fix them.
1. Spec compliance
If a written spec exists:
- Every acceptance criterion is met — quote the code that meets each
- The specified pattern was followed, not a paral
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