Skill Audit for YAML/XML Compliance

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Audits skills for YAML compliance, pure XML structure, progressive disclosure, and best practices.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DevelopmentIntermediate
7/25/2026
Claude Code
#skill-audit#compliance#best-practices#xml-structure#quality

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Automated summary

Audits an Agent Skills file for compliance with best practices, including pure XML structure and progressive disclosure.

Strengths

  • Ensures skills follow required structure, tags, and formatting standards.
  • Provides detailed findings with file:line locations and actionable recommendations.
  • Automates quality review, reducing manual oversight.

Limitations

  • Relies on up-to-date best practices documentation being correct and accessible.
  • May produce false positives if rules misapply to edge cases.
  • Requires correct subagent invocation and proper argument passing.
When to use it

When creating or editing a skill and you need to validate its structure and compliance before usage or sharing.

When not to use it

If you are not working on Agent Skills files or need a general-purpose code linter for other languages.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score80/100

The skill solely invokes a subagent for auditing, with no execution of system commands, network calls, or dangerous operations. No tools are declared, and it does not handle sensitive data.

No concerns found

How this analysis is made

Examples

Basic skill audit
Audit the skill at ./skills/deploy.md
Audit with full path
Run skill auditor on /home/user/project/skills/my-skill.md

description: Audit skill for YAML compliance, pure XML structure, progressive disclosure, and best practices argument-hint: <skill-path>

<objective> Invoke the skill-auditor subagent to audit the skill at $ARGUMENTS for compliance with Agent Skills best practices.

This ensures skills follow proper structure (pure XML, required tags, progressive disclosure) and effectiveness patterns. </objective>

<process> 1. Invoke skill-auditor subagent 2. Pass skill path: $ARGUMENTS 3. Subagent will read updated best practices (including pure XML structure requirements) 4. Subagent evaluates XML structure quality, required/conditional tags, anti-patterns 5. Review detailed findings with file:line locations, compliance scores, and recommendations </process>

<success_criteria>

  • Subagent invoked successfully
  • Arguments passed correctly to subagent
  • Audit includes XML structure evaluation </success_criteria>

From the file to a first result

The download contains exactly the content displayed on this page. This copy may differ from the latest version in the source repository.

View the source and supporting files

This download contains SKILL.md only. Any scripts, references, templates and dependencies are not included. Get the required files from the source, preserving their directory structure, before continuing.

1. Download the file

Download SKILL.md

From the root of a test project, save the file as .skill-downloads/skill-audit-for-yaml-xml-compliance-mrzxurl5/SKILL.md, or use the command below. This folder is for inspecting the skill before installation.

Command for macOS/Linux or WSL: requires a POSIX shell and curl. On Windows without WSL, use the download button and create the folder manually.

mkdir -p '.skill-downloads/skill-audit-for-yaml-xml-compliance-mrzxurl5' && curl --fail --show-error --location 'https://skills-guides.com/api/skills/skill-audit-for-yaml-xml-compliance-mrzxurl5/download' --output '.skill-downloads/skill-audit-for-yaml-xml-compliance-mrzxurl5/SKILL.md.part' && mv '.skill-downloads/skill-audit-for-yaml-xml-compliance-mrzxurl5/SKILL.md.part' '.skill-downloads/skill-audit-for-yaml-xml-compliance-mrzxurl5/SKILL.md'

2. Check prerequisites

Read SKILL.md before using it. If it references scripts or external services, inspect them and prepare the required access in your test environment.

No recognized prerequisites section in this file. This does not mean it is self-contained: libraries, tools and access requirements may be mentioned elsewhere in the content or source repository.

The platforms on this page are catalog indications. The paths below follow tool documentation; they do not prove this skill has been run in those tools. No minimum tool version is confirmed for this listing.

3. Load the skill

This file does not provide a usable name/description header for this native procedure. It remains available to download and inspect; use the manual method below.

Manual method or another tool: attach SKILL.md to a conversation, or open it in an agent that can read files. Include any required supporting resources. No universal folder is recognized by every tool.

4. Try a first task

Use a short, synthetic input: an API endpoint, a small document or an interface brief. In a new conversation, attach the file or give the agent its path, then adapt this request:

Read .skill-downloads/skill-audit-for-yaml-xml-compliance-mrzxurl5/SKILL.md and apply its instructions to this example: [describe a test input]. Identify any missing files, dependencies or access. Produce the result requested by the skill without inventing data or running unreviewed scripts.

Expected result: output matching the skill instructions, or a precise list of missing prerequisites. A read confirmation alone does not validate a first use. If an external resource is unavailable, that path remains untested.

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