check-tools SKILL.md skillA

This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

check-tools from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/check-tools@v1.2.0

Pins v1.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
oaustegard/claude-skills
Path
check-tools/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.2.0, committed Sep 9, 2026
First version recorded
Nov 5, 2025
Size
2,584 bytes
Repository stars
158
License
MIT

Validates development tool installations across Python, Node.js, Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, Git, and system utilities. Use when verifying environments or troubleshooting dependencies.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Check Tools - Development Environment Validator

Reports which development tools are installed and at what version, grouped by
ecosystem. Default behavior reports every tool without failing validation —
suited to diverse PaaS/container environments where only a subset of
ecosystems is expected to be present.

## When to use

- Verifying a container or environment has the tools a task needs
- Troubleshooting a build failure that might be a missing dependency
- Documenting system requirements
- Onboarding: confirming a dev environment is ready

## Running it

```bash
# Fast check with exit code (0 = all required core tools present)
bash assets/check-tools.sh

# Development tools only
bash assets/environment-diagnostic.sh tools

# System info: hardware, mounts, processes
bash assets/environment-diagnostic.sh system

# Complete diagnostic (tools + system + package inventories), written to a file
bash assets/environment-diagnostic.sh full /path/to/report.txt
```

`check-tools.sh` exits non-zero only when a **required** core tool (python3,
pip, node, npm, java, gcc, git, curl, awk, grep, gzip, tar, make, sed) is
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/check-tools@sha256:eecfb2c74b9a3652

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_vtzaftro63fbvfjp.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_vtzaftro63fbvfjp)

5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Nov 5, 2025 and Sep 9, 2026, about one every 77 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.2.0 latest2026-09-09 db4e3e1 2,584 BA view · diff
v1.1.32026-01-01 ab21c6f 12,314 BA view · diff
git:20251110.b786b982025-11-10 b786b98 12,287 BA view · diff
git:20251110.547601d2025-11-10 547601d 11,676 BA view · diff
git:20251105.00d68e42025-11-05 00d68e4 12,317 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2584 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vtzaftro63fbvfjp
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/check-tools
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/eecfb2c74b9a36524c7570620fa6f0d69e2e057d195f59d4eda2afb2dd76d8c2

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