Gate Check

What it does

The gate-check skill allows an AI agent to verify if a given URL is accessible and returns a valid HTTP status code. It can confirm whether a website or specific page is online, helping automate tasks that require checking web availability. This skill provides a simple way to ensure resources are available before proceeding with further actions.

When to use it

• Automated Website Monitoring: Regularly check the status of critical websites to detect downtime and trigger alerts.
• Pre-flight Checks in Workflows: Before initiating processes that rely on external web services, confirm their availability.
• Link Verification: Validate URLs within documents or databases to ensure they are functional.
• Content Availability Confirmation: Verify if a specific piece of content is accessible before attempting to download or process it.

Key capabilities

• URL accessibility verification
• HTTP status code retrieval
• Simple boolean response (accessible/not accessible)

Example prompts

• "Can you check if https://www.example.com is up?"
• "Is the page at https://skills.sh/donchitos/claude-code-game-studios/gate-check reachable?"
• “Verify that http://localhost:8000 returns a 200 OK status.”

Tips & gotchas

The skill relies on network connectivity; ensure the AI agent has access to the internet. It does not analyze the content of the page, only its accessibility and HTTP response code.