plugin-validator

What This Skill Does

The plugin-validator skill serves as the primary diagnostic and maintenance tool for your SpecWeave environment. It acts as a gatekeeper and repair utility, ensuring that your AI development ecosystem is correctly configured before you initiate complex tasks. The skill performs a multi-stage audit: it verifies the integrity of your marketplace registration in the Claude configuration files, checks for the existence of the core SpecWeave plugin, and intelligently scans your development context to identify missing integrations. By proactively identifying gaps in your local setup, it prevents obscure runtime errors and allows the system to guide you through necessary installations or configuration tweaks with minimal friction.

Installation

To integrate this utility into your development agent, run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/anton-abyzov/sw-plugin-validator This installs the tool from the official repository maintained by anton-abyzov. Once installed, the skill becomes available for triggering via explicit user commands.

Use Cases

This skill is designed for scenarios where environmental consistency is critical. It is ideal for developers who switch between multiple projects with varying dependencies, ensuring the correct SpecWeave plugins are present. It is also a mandatory first step when troubleshooting build failures or when the agent fails to recognize specific workflow commands. Furthermore, it excels in initial workspace onboarding, where a new environment might lack the necessary marketplace registries required for high-level automation.

Example Prompts

1. "Validate my plugins, please. I think my environment is missing the GitHub integration."
2. "I'm running into errors with my recent build, can you perform a full check of my SpecWeave configuration?"
3. "specweave validate-plugins - I need to make sure my local setup supports React UI integration for this project."

Tips & Limitations

To maintain high performance and avoid unnecessary overhead, this skill is strictly gated behind explicit intent. It will not fire during routine development cycles (/sw:do or /sw:increment) to ensure your context window remains clean. Always remember that the skill suggests installations, but it will ask for your confirmation before modifying your ~/.claude/settings.json file. Use this skill frequently when onboarding a new repository to ensure your local environment matches the project's requirements exactly, saving you from troubleshooting missing dependencies later in the development process.