Overview
ads-validate is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by AgriciDaniel. Its author describes it as: “Validate Claude Ads contracts, scoring inputs, run bundles, capabilities, source freshness, safety, installation, uninstall, or release readiness. Use for ads validate, ads status, ads next, stale claims with missing…”. The project has 8.2k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-ads`.
What ads-validate does
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What’s inside
The SKILL.md for ads-validate is organised into these sections:
- Install and uninstall validation
Installation
Add ads-validate to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-adsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
License
ads-validate is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in AgriciDaniel/claude-ads, an established project with 8,200 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
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Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does ads-validate do?
- Validate Claude Ads contracts, scoring inputs, run bundles, capabilities, source freshness, safety, installation, uninstall, or release readiness. Use for ads validate, ads status, ads next, stale claims with missing tool access, maturity checks, ownership-manifest uninstall, preserving unrelated ads-* skills, checksum verification, preflight, QA, or release audits. Missing access must demote stale evidence for the run and block dependent release-current claims before recovery guidance.
- How do I install ads-validate?
- Run /plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-ads in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-ads before installing.
- Is ads-validate free to use?
- Yes. ads-validate is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does ads-validate work with?
- ads-validate lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does ads-validate come from?
- ads-validate ships inside AgriciDaniel/claude-ads, a repository that contains 35 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 8,200 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.