# conformetry-validate

Runs conformetry checks against generated files to spot missing declarations or comments. Helps agents fix structural differences without deleting working code.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 559 installs
- Author: organizzolini
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/organizzolini/codebase/tree/HEAD/projects/ic-suite/conformetry/conformetry-agents/skills/conformetry-validate/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/conformetry-validate

## What it does

Conformetry compares generated source files on disk against their source templates. Validation follows a strict principle: an instance must contain everything defined in its template, while extra definitions are never treated as errors. Because function bodies are ignored, fixes should only append missing elements rather than removing custom implementations.

Runs execute through the Nx workspace target `nx run <project>:conformetry-validate` or via the standalone binary `conformetry validate --config <path>`. Reports provide exact line numbers or JSON object paths alongside direct remediation hints.

Leaving out `--config` halts execution with a `ConfigurationPathRequiredError` because the CLI provides no fallback path. Templates configured with project tags cannot be resolved by the CLI host alone; inspecting tagged instances requires Nx targets or explicit `--instances` paths.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add organizzolini/codebase --skill conformetry-validate -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/conformetry-validate/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/conformetry-validate/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add organizzolini/codebase --skill conformetry-validate -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/conformetry-validate/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add organizzolini/codebase --skill conformetry-validate -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/conformetry-validate/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install organizzolini/codebase conformetry-validate
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/conformetry-validate/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add organizzolini/codebase --skill conformetry-validate -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/organizzolini/codebase --path projects/ic-suite/conformetry/conformetry-agents/skills/conformetry-validate
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/conformetry-validate/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add organizzolini/codebase --skill conformetry-validate -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/organizzolini/codebase/tree/HEAD/projects/ic-suite/conformetry/conformetry-agents/skills/conformetry-validate/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- detect missing declarations or structural files in generated code
- validate project structure against templates using Nx or the CLI
- troubleshoot failed placeholder inferences across template files
- resolve template discrepancies without wiping out manual code edits

## Example prompts
- Run conformetry-validate on the widgets project using Nx.
- Check code conformance against the nestjs-service-module template with configuration file `configuration/conformetry.config.ts`.
- Inspect the conformetry report and add any missing decorators to service files.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: conformetry-validate
description: Run a conformetry conformance check and act on what it reports. Use when a conformetry-validate target fails; when a composite lint run reports conformance differences; when a report names a missing file, a missing declaration, a missing comment, a placeholder it could not infer, an ambiguous instance, or an unmatched instance; when deciding whether to edit an instance or regenerate it; or before claiming generated code is finished. Covers both the Nx plugin and the conformetry command-line host.
license: MIT
---

# Checking conformance and fixing differences

Conformance measures an **instance** — generated code on disk — against the
**template** it came from. A **difference** is something the template declares
that the instance lacks.

## The one rule that governs every language

**The instance must carry everything its template declares. Anything it adds is
never a difference.**

Extra declarations, extra keys, extra lines, extra files, reordered class
members: all fine. So the fix for a difference is almost always to **add what is
missing**, never to delete what is extra. An agent that starts removing content
to make a file conform is working against the mechanism.

Implement freely inside generated files. Function bodies are not compared at all.

## Running it

Per project, or across the workspace:

```bash
nx run <project>:conformetry-validate
nx run-many --targets=conformetry-validate
```

Without Nx, the command-line host does the same, given `--config <path>` — the
flag is required and no default file is assumed:

```bash
conformetry validate --config configuration/conformetry.config.ts
```

In an Nx workspace the path comes from the `configurationPath` option of the
`@conformetry/nx` plugin in `nx.json`; the executor and the `sync` generator
also take it as a `configuration` option, which wins. A run with no path is
refused with a `ConfigurationPathRequiredError` naming the missing flag or
option.

Both accept a language filter, and the command-line host also accepts a one-off
glob override in place of the configured instances and a `--templates` filter
naming which templates to measure against. Narrowing is for iterating; let the
full run be the gate.

```bash
conformetry validate --config configuration/conformetry.config.ts --templates nestjs-service-module
conformetry validate --config configuration/conformetry.config.ts --templates nestjs-service-module --languages typescript
```
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