Validate

Validate is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by cortex-tms in cortex-tms.

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Install Validate

Copy Validate 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/cortex-tms/cortex-tms/tree/main/.claude/skills/validate ~/.claude/skills/validate

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/cortex-tms/cortex-tms.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/validate/SKILL.md in cortex-tms/cortex-tms
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/validate
Collection: One of 6 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1817 skills

What Validate does

Validate runs the full Cortex TMS quality gate: tests, lint, build, and strict validation. Use it to report pass or fail for each step without making changes.

Validate is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Validate comes from a repository tagged ai, anthropic, architecture, best-practices and claude-code.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Validate

Run the full Cortex TMS quality gate and report results.

Steps

pnpm test — report pass/fail count
pnpm run lint — report errors and warnings
pnpm run build — report success or failure
node bin/cortex-tms.js validate --strict — report check results

Rules

Run all four steps regardless of failures
Report results clearly with pass/fail for each step
Do not fix anything — just report
If everything passes, say so. If something fails, show the relevant output.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS

Frequently asked about Validate

What else does cortex-tms publish alongside Validate?
Validate is one of 6 skills that DirSkills catalogs from cortex-tms/cortex-tms, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Implement, New Command and Plan. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Validate does, and is maintained by cortex-tms in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the cortex-tms/cortex-tms page.
How does Validate compare to other Quality skills?
Validate ranks #1669 by stars among the 1817 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 Validate against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.