Setup Validate

setup-validate

Validate a setup.aiwg.io/v1 SetupManifest file against the schema and run consistency checks.

Trigger Phrases

• "validate setup manifest"
• "check setup.manifest.yaml"
• "aiwg setup-validate [manifest]"
• "lint installer manifest"
• "verify my setup manifest"

Parameters

manifest (positional, optional)

Path to the setup.manifest.yaml. Default: ./setup.manifest.yaml.

--schema (optional)

Path to schema file. Default: auto-located from AIWG installation.

--strict (optional)

Fail on warnings in addition to errors.

--fix (optional)

Reserved for future safe autofixes. The current CLI validates and reports only.

Validation Checks

Schema Validation

• apiVersion must be setup.aiwg.io/v1
• kind must be SetupManifest
• Required fields present: metadata.name, spec.platforms, spec.steps
• All step types are one of: script, detect, ask, verify, agentic, platform-route, chain, os-config
• Param types are one of: string, path, boolean, integer, choice
• metadata.install_type must be one of: user, developer, ci (if present)
• metadata.execution_mode must be deterministic or provider-orchestrated (if present)

Reference Checks

• Every script: path exists relative to the manifest directory
• Every chain: manifest path exists
• Every platform-route route value resolves to an existing script
• depends_on step IDs all exist in the manifest
• Recovery triggers list references valid step IDs
• os-config steps: config_id must reference a valid entry in spec.os_config

Developer Manifest Checks (when metadata.install_type: developer)

These checks apply only to manifests with install_type: developer:

Errors

• os-config steps must reference a valid config_id in the spec.os_config block
• interactive_required: true params must not have a default value — a default defeats the purpose of requiring interactive input
• Each platform declared in spec.platforms must have at least one platform-specific step or os_config entry

Warnings (unless --strict, then errors)

• Developer manifest with no os_config block: warn unless metadata.description explicitly states why no OS configuration is needed
• os_config entries with requires_relogin: true but no corresponding os-config step — the entry is declared but never applied
• os_config entries with interactive: true but no user-facing explanation in description

Consistency Checks (warnings unless --strict)

• Steps without id — suggest auto-generated IDs
• Sequential steps that logically depend on prior steps but have no depends_on
• Params declared but never referenced in scripts or when conditions
• Prerequisites with no install_hint (hard to debug without one)
• Verify expressions that look like they'd always pass (e.g., true)
• interactive_required: true params that also have required: true — the required flag is redundant when interactive_required is set

Script Safety Checks

• Scripts that exist: read first 5 lines to confirm they source lib scripts
• Warn if a script template is used directly without customization (template placeholder text detected)

Agentic Step Audit

• Warn on any type: agentic step in a deterministic manifest — print a reminder that agentic steps are exception handling only
• Do not warn merely because a provider-orchestrated manifest uses agentic steps
• Error if type: agentic step has no instruction field

Output Format

Validating: setup.dev.manifest.yaml

  Schema:        ✓ Valid (setup.aiwg.io/v1 / SetupManifest)
  Install type:  developer
  Metadata:      ✓ name=myapp-dev version=1.0.0
  Platform:      ✓ linux (ubuntu, debian), macos
  Params:        ✓ 4 params (INSTALL_DIR required, LOCAL_DOMAIN interactive_required, SSH_EMAIL interactive_required, IDE interactive_required)
  Prerequisites: ✓ 2 checked (git >=2.30, docker)
  OS Config:     ✓ 3 entries (docker-group [linux, requires_relogin], inotify-watches [linux], xcode-cli-tools [macos, interactive])

  Steps (7):
    ✓ clone             script      installer/scripts/clone.sh [exists]
    ✓ setup-git-config  script      installer/scripts/dev/setup-git-config.sh [exists]
    ✓ setup-ssh-key     script      installer/scripts/dev/setup-ssh-key.sh [exists]
    ✓ apply-docker-group  os-config  config_id=docker-group [valid]
    ✓ apply-inotify     os-config   config_id=inotify-watches [valid]
    ✓ configure-dev     script      installer/scripts/dev/configure-dev.sh [exists]
    ✓ verify-dev        script      installer/scripts/dev/verify-dev.sh [exists]

  Recovery (1):
    ✓ full-reset  script [exists]

  Warnings (1):
    ⚠ xcode-cli-tools os_config entry declared but no os-config step applies it

Result: VALID (1 warning)

Error Example

  Errors (2):
    ✗ Step 'apply-docker-group': config_id 'docker-group' not found in os_config block
    ✗ Param 'LOCAL_DOMAIN': interactive_required=true but has a default value — remove the default

Result: INVALID — fix errors before running

Auto-fix (--fix)

--fix is reserved for future safe autofixes. The current agent-facing CLI validates and reports only; it does not mutate manifests.

References

• Schema: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/schemas/v1/setup-manifest.schema.json
• Run skill: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/setup-run/SKILL.md
• Generate skill: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/setup-generate/SKILL.md