An automated auditing tool that validates AI agent skill designs against five core architectural principles to ensure high-performance and efficient model interaction.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install skill-philosophy-validator
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install skill-philosophy-validator using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Skill Philosophy Validator?
The Skill Philosophy Validator is a specialized tool designed to evaluate Openclaw Skills against a rigorous framework of five core design principles. It ensures that skills are not just functional, but optimized for LLM consumption by focusing on progressive disclosure, knowledge density, and actionable instructions. By analyzing the SKILL.md file and its associated directory structure, the validator identifies structural weaknesses, redundant information, and missing safety boundaries.
This validator acts as a quality assurance layer for developers, providing a technical audit that scores skills and suggests prioritized improvements. It ensures that the skill remains lightweight by offloading heavy content to reference directories, thereby maintaining a high signal-to-noise ratio for the AI agent.
Skill Philosophy Validator Use Cases
- Validating the architectural integrity of a newly created SKILL.md file.
- Optimizing existing Openclaw Skills to improve trigger precision and reduce token usage.
- Reviewing skill quality during the refactoring or updating of AI agent workflows.
- Checking for common pitfalls and 'Gotchas' that cause model failure in production.
How Skill Philosophy Validator Works
- The validator locates and reads the SKILL.md file, including the frontmatter and the primary body text.
- It scans the supporting directory structure, including references, scripts, and assets, to verify resource organization.
- Each of the five core principles is analyzed: Progressive Disclosure, Knowledge Gap, Prompt Extension Architecture, Gotchas Quality, and Description Trigger Quality.
- A diagnostic report is generated using a three-tier scoring system (Pass, Needs Improvement, or Critical Issue).
- Actionable guidance is provided, prioritized from P0 to P3, to help the developer refine the skill without losing core functionality.
Skill Philosophy Validator Setup
The validator is automatically triggered within the Openclaw environment when a SKILL.md file is modified. To manually trigger a review, use the following commands within your agent interface:
# Trigger a manual validation
validate skill
# Optimize a specific skill design
optimize skill
# Review the quality of the current skill
review skill quality
Skill Philosophy Validator Data Schema & Taxonomy
The validator organizes its assessment based on the following taxonomy:
| Component | Requirement |
|---|---|
| SKILL.md | Must be under 800 lines; 200-500 preferred for Openclaw Skills. |
| Frontmatter | Must contain specific name and description keys. |
| References | Heavy documentation and standards must reside in references/. |
| Scripts | Executable logic must be separated into the scripts/ folder. |
| Gotchas | Requires at least 3-9 specific, actionable pitfalls based on real-world experience. |
Skill Philosophy Validator Advanced Features
- Multi-language support: Generates diagnostic reports in the same language used for the query (English or Chinese).
- Contextual Awareness: Recognizes when content has been correctly offloaded to external reference files to prevent false negatives on brevity.
- Action-Oriented Logic: Differentiates between program code and prompt instructions to maintain a clean extension architecture.
- Priority-Based Guidance: Sorts all suggested fixes by impact level to streamline the developer workflow for Openclaw Skills.
SKILL.md
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