# Validate Settings

> Validates Claude Code settings.json files for schema, permissions, and security. Use when user asks to "check my settings", "validate settings.json", "permission errors", "environment variable issues", or "settings syntax errors". Validates model names, permission rules, hooks configuration, and environment variables.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-pdugan20-claudelint-validate-settings`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [pdugan20](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/pdugan20)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Developer Tools](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/developer-tools)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [pdugan20](https://github.com/pdugan20)
- **Source:** https://github.com/pdugan20/claudelint/tree/main/skills/validate-settings
- **Website:** https://www.claudelint.com

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-pdugan20-claudelint-validate-settings
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Validate Settings

Runs `claudelint validate-settings` to validate `.claude/settings.json` and `.claude/settings.local.json` files.

## Usage

```bash
claudelint validate-settings $ARGUMENTS
```

## Options

- `--path ` - Custom path to settings.json
- `--verbose` - Show detailed output
- `--warnings-as-errors` - Treat warnings as errors

## What Gets Validated

- JSON syntax
- Model validation (sonnet, opus, haiku)
- Permission rules (tool names, actions: allow/block)
- Hooks configuration
- Environment variables (naming, empty values, secrets detection)

## Examples

```bash
claudelint validate-settings
claudelint validate-settings --path /path/to/settings.json
```

## See Also

- [validate-all](../validate-all/SKILL.md) - Run all validators

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [pdugan20](https://github.com/pdugan20)
- **Source:** [pdugan20/claudelint](https://github.com/pdugan20/claudelint)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://www.claudelint.com

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-pdugan20-claudelint-validate-settings
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/pdugan20
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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