About json-config-helper
A command-line JSON editing skill for developers handling configuration files. It uses jq for validation, formatting, querying, and filtering, and can help identify syntax issues and suggest schema validation.
Key features
- 01Validate JSON with jq
- 02Pretty-print, minify, and sort keys
- 03Extract nested values and filter arrays
- 04Find common syntax errors
- 05Suggest JSON Schema validation
Use cases
- 01Check a package.json for syntax errors
- 02Query values in .mcp.json
- 03Format or sort a configuration file
- 04Validate configuration against a schema
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ jackspace/ claudeskillz --skill json-config-helperAfter installing, type/json-config-helperin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesSKILL.json
Details
From the project READMEJson-config-helper
Instructions
When working with JSON files:
- Validate syntax with jq
- Pretty-print with jq '.'
- Minify with jq -c
- Sort keys with jq -S
- Extract values: jq '.key.subkey'
- Filter arrays: jq '.[] | select(.name == "value")'
- Map operations: jq 'map(.field)'
- package.json (Node.js)
- .mcp.json (MCP servers)
- .vscode settings
- Docker configs
- jq for command-line processing
- Suggest schema validation tools
- Provide corrected versions
- Find syntax errors (missing commas, quotes)
- Validate against JSON Schema
- Handle encoding issues
Examples
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Notes
- This skill was auto-generated
- Edit this file to customize behavior
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