Cross-Validate Artifacts

Cross-Validate Artifacts is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by shep-ai in shep.

247 stars53 forkson shep-ai/shepAdded 2026/09/02Repository updated 2026/08/28

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Install Cross-Validate Artifacts

Copy Cross-Validate Artifacts into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/shep-ai/shep/tree/main/.claude/skills/cross-validate-artifacts ~/.claude/skills/cross-validate-artifacts

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/shep-ai/shep.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/cross-validate-artifacts/SKILL.md in shep-ai/shep
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cross-validate-artifacts
Collection: One of 19 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1418 skills

What Cross-Validate Artifacts does

Cross-Validate Artifacts checks documentation and codebase artifacts for consistency, conflicts, and contradictions. Use it to audit docs or run a validate-and-fix pass across related files and paths.

Cross-Validate Artifacts is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Cross-Validate Artifacts comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, agentic-ai, ai, ai-agents and ai-code-generation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Cross-Validate Artifacts Skill

Cross-validate documentation and artifacts across the codebase for consistency, conflicts, and contradictions.

Trigger

Use this skill when the user:

Asks to "cross-validate", "validate docs", "check documentation consistency"
Wants to find conflicts or contradictions in documentation
Asks to audit or review documentation for accuracy
Uses /cross-validate-artifacts command

Arguments

No arguments: Perform validation and present results summary table, then ask user if they want to fix
validate and fix or fix: Perform validation AND automatically fix all issues found
--category <name>: Validate specific category only (domain-models, agent-system, tech-stack, architecture, cli-commands)

Validation Process

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Cross-Validate Artifacts provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/cross-validate-artifacts

Frequently asked about Cross-Validate Artifacts

What else does shep-ai publish alongside Cross-Validate Artifacts?
Cross-Validate Artifacts is one of 19 skills that DirSkills catalogs from shep-ai/shep, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Architecture Reviewer, Commit PR and Fast Loop. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Cross-Validate Artifacts does, and is maintained by shep-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the shep-ai/shep page.
How does Cross-Validate Artifacts compare to other Quality skills?
Cross-Validate Artifacts ranks #1314 by stars among the 1418 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Cross-Validate Artifacts against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.