# lintlang-audit

Performs static checks on agent prompts, tool schemas, and configs without LLM calls. Catches vague tool definitions and missing stop conditions.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 143
- Author: hermes-labs-ai
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/hermes-labs-ai/lintlang/tree/HEAD/integrations/claude-code/skills/lintlang-audit/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/lintlang-audit

## What it does

The skill runs deterministic checks on agent configs across YAML, JSON, Markdown, `.prompt`, and Python files. It uses zero LLM calls, collects no telemetry, and requires no network during analysis. In `.py` files, it extracts embedded prompts and uncalibrated thresholds via AST instead of acting as a general Python linter.

Execution relies on the `lintlang` CLI (version 0.8.3 or newer) or a pinned run through `uvx`. The skill processes only files you explicitly name, producing a structured JSON report with specific diagnostic codes such as `H1.1` or `P2`. It never edits your files directly.

Without Python 3.10+ and the CLI or `uvx` available, scans will not execute. A `PASS` status proves structural consistency, but it cannot guarantee agent reliability during live inference.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hermes-labs-ai/lintlang --skill lintlang-audit -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hermes-labs-ai/lintlang --skill lintlang-audit -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hermes-labs-ai/lintlang --skill lintlang-audit -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install hermes-labs-ai/lintlang lintlang-audit
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hermes-labs-ai/lintlang --skill lintlang-audit -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/hermes-labs-ai/lintlang --path integrations/claude-code/skills/lintlang-audit
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hermes-labs-ai/lintlang --skill lintlang-audit -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/hermes-labs-ai/lintlang/tree/HEAD/integrations/claude-code/skills/lintlang-audit/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- detect schema and description mismatches in agent tools
- identify missing stop conditions in system prompts
- find embedded prompts and uncalibrated thresholds inside Python files
- run deterministic static checks on agent configs without API requests

## Example prompts
- Audit the agent configuration in `agent_config.yaml` using lintlang-audit
- Run a lintlang scan on `prompts/system.md`
- Check `tools.json` with lintlang-audit and report high severity findings

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: lintlang-audit
description: Audit a named AI agent config, system prompt, tool-definition or instruction file (YAML, JSON, Markdown, text, or Python) with the released LintLang CLI, on request. Use when the user asks to audit, lint, scan or review such a file for ambiguous tool descriptions, missing stop conditions, schema/description mismatches, or prompts embedded in Python, and names the file. Deterministic offline static analysis, no model call and no network call. Do not use for general code review, for prose documentation, or when no file has been named.
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: Needs the released `lintlang` CLI on PATH, or `uvx` to run the pinned release without installing. Python 3.10+. No checkout of the LintLang repository, and no network access once the CLI is present.
---

# Audit a config or prompt with LintLang

LintLang is a static linter for the natural-language instructions that control
AI agents: system prompts, tool descriptions, and agent configs. It is
zero-LLM — deterministic parsing and structural checks only, no model call, no
telemetry, no network access during a scan
(https://github.com/hermes-labs-ai/lintlang).

Run this skill when someone asks for an audit. It is not the plugin's
`PostToolUse` hook: that hook is separate, fires by itself after a `Write` or
`Edit`, and checks only the file that was just changed. This skill runs when
asked, on the file the user names, and reports a full verdict. Neither one
rewrites a file or blocks a tool call.

## What to do

1. **Resolve the target.** Audit the file or files the user named. If no file
   was named, ask which one — do not guess, and do not sweep every candidate in
   the repository.

   LintLang reads `.yaml`, `.yml`, `.json`, `.md`, `.txt`, `.prompt`, and
   `.py`. A `.py` file is scanned by AST extraction for embedded prompts and
   uncalibrated thresholds (`P1`/`P2`); it is not general Python linting, so do
   not offer this skill as one.

2. **Resolve a runner, in this order.** Stop at the first that works.

   - `lintlang --version` prints `lintlang` 0.8.3 or newer → use `lintlang`.
     A newer installed release is fine — report which version produced the
     result, because counts and codes can differ between releases.
   - Otherwise, if `uvx` is available, use the pinned release with no install
     and no PATH change:

     ```bash
     uvx --from lintlang==0.8.3 lintlang --version
     ```

     Keep the `==0.8.3` pin so an unreviewed newer release is never fetched.
     This downloads the package into uv's cache once; the scan itself still
     makes no network call.
   - Otherwise stop and relay the install line:
     `python -m pip install lintlang==0.8.3`. Do not install anything
     persistently on the user's machine yourself.

   A different installed version still works — say which version produced the
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