By name: {{SKILL_PREFIX}}-validate description: Run Arcana mechanical validators, optionally narrowed by selector when_to_use: Before committing Arcana changes; after editing Arcana docs, invocations, rites, skills, or command metadata; user asks whether Arcana validates, whether links/frontmatter/format/security are clean, or wants a targeted mechanical check. argument-hint: "[all|smart|auto|summary|parallel|links|frontmatter|format|...]" arguments: selector user-invocable: true allowed-tools: Bash Read
Validate Arcana
You are running deterministic, script-backed validation against Arcana itself. Validation is mechanical: it should run a rite and report pass/fail diagnostics with file:line citations when available. Judgment-based review belongs to audit workflows, not this skill.
Selectors
- No selector or
all: run the full Arcana validator suite. smart: show validators relevant to the current git changes.auto: run the smart-selected validators.summary: run the full suite with summary-only output.parallel: run the full suite in parallel.- Validator selectors such as
structure,encoding,portability,naming,semantics,format,frontmatter,links,orphans,provenance,skill-refs,security, anddoc-treesrun only those validators. - Multiple validators may be space-separated or comma-separated.
Run
python3 {{ARCANA_PATH}}/rites/validate.py $selector
Examples:
python3 {{ARCANA_PATH}}/rites/validate.py
python3 {{ARCANA_PATH}}/rites/validate.py links frontmatter
python3 {{ARCANA_PATH}}/rites/validate.py smart
python3 {{ARCANA_PATH}}/rites/validate.py parallel
Procedural Detail
!cat {{ARCANA_PATH}}/invocations/arc/validators/validate.md