/validate-output - Validate Generated Skills, Prompts, Agents, or Hooks

/validate-output - Validate Generated Skills, Prompts, Agents, or Hooks

**Check that your generated output is properly formatted and ready to use.**

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Usage

/validate-output skill [path]
/validate-output prompt
/validate-agent [path]
/validate-output hook [path]

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What This Command Does

Validates generated output and creates distribution files:

• ✅ YAML frontmatter is correct
• ✅ Naming conventions followed (kebab-case)
• ✅ Required files present
• ✅ Format is proper
• ✅ Quality standards met
• ✅ Creates ZIP file (if validation passes for skills)

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Validate a Skill

/validate-output skill generated-skills/my-skill

**Checks**:

1. YAML Frontmatter:

---
name: skill-name-kebab-case  ✅ Check format
description: One-line description  ✅ Check present
---

1. Naming:

• ✅ Skill name is kebab-case (not Title Case, snake_case, camelCase)
• ✅ Folder name matches skill name
• ✅ Python files are snake_case (if present)

1. Required Files:

• ✅ SKILL.md exists
• ✅ HOW_TO_USE.md exists (or usage instructions in SKILL.md)
• ✅ Python files (if skill needs code)
• ✅ sample_input.json and expected_output.json (if applicable)

1. Quality:

• ✅ SKILL.md has clear capabilities section
• ✅ Input/output formats documented
• ✅ Examples provided
• ✅ No placeholder text

**Output**:

Validating: generated-skills/my-skill/

✅ YAML Frontmatter: Valid
✅ Skill Name: my-skill (kebab-case ✓)
✅ Required Files: All present
   - SKILL.md ✓
   - HOW_TO_USE.md ✓
   - calculator.py ✓
   - sample_input.json ✓
✅ Quality: Documentation complete

🎉 Skill validation PASSED!

Creating ZIP file for Claude Desktop...

cd generated-skills && zip -r my-skill.zip my-skill/ -x "*.pyc" "*__pycache__*" "*.DS_Store"

✅ ZIP created: generated-skills/my-skill.zip (35KB)

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📦 Ready to use!

**For Claude Desktop** (Easiest):
Drag and drop: generated-skills/my-skill.zip

**For Claude Code**:
/install-skill generated-skills/my-skill

Next steps:
1. Import ZIP to Claude Desktop OR install to Claude Code
2. /test-factory my-skill

**If Issues Found**:

Validating: generated-skills/bad-skill/

❌ YAML Frontmatter: Invalid
   Issue: Name is "Bad Skill" (Title Case)
   Fix: Change to "bad-skill" (kebab-case)

❌ Required Files: Missing
   Issue: HOW_TO_USE.md not found
   Fix: Add usage documentation

⚠️ Quality: Incomplete
   Issue: No examples in SKILL.md
   Recommendation: Add 2-3 usage examples

Validation FAILED. Fix issues and run /validate-output again.

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Validate a Prompt

/validate-output prompt

**Checks**:

1. Format Structure:

• ✅ XML: Has tags, properly nested
• ✅ Claude: Has clear sections (Role, Mission, Workflow, etc.)
• ✅ ChatGPT: Has both required sections
• ✅ Gemini: Has role configuration

1. Completeness:

• ✅ No placeholder text ([TODO], [FILL IN], etc.)
• ✅ All sections have content
• ✅ Examples included (at least 2)