# Validating Feeds

> Validates RSS and Atom feeds against their specifications — well-formedness, required elements, and date formats — and reports each violation with its element path. Use when a feed reader rejects a feed or after changing feed generation.

- Skill: `brokenrobot-xyz/validating-feeds` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add brokenrobot-xyz/validating-feeds`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/brokenrobot-xyz/validating-feeds/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: brokenrobot-xyz (https://skillmd.com/u/brokenrobot-xyz)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/brokenrobot-xyz/validating-feeds

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# Validate feeds

Check each named feed file against its specification and report violations with element paths.

## Steps

1. Parse the feed. Report an XML error with its line and column and stop, because element checks
   on a malformed document report noise.
2. Check the required elements for the detected feed type, and check each date's format.
3. Report one table: element path, rule, and the violating value.