Json Config Helper

Name: Json Config Helper
Author: jackspace

jackspace/claudeskillz

44 installs
16 repo stars
Updated November 20, 2025
jackspace/claudeskillz

Validate, format, and query JSON configuration files (package.json, .mcp.json, Docker configs) using jq.

About

Provides jq-based recipes to validate, format, and extract values from JSON config files. A developer uses it when working with package.json, .mcp.json, or other JSON configuration.

Validate, pretty-print, minify, and sort with jq
Extract and filter values, find syntax errors

Json Config Helper by the numbers

44 all-time installs (skills.sh)
Ranked #774 of 1,438 DevOps & CI/CD skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
Data as of Aug 2, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)

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Installs	44
repo stars	★ 16
Last updated	November 20, 2025
Repository	jackspace/claudeskillz ↗

What it does

Validate, format, and query JSON configuration files (package.json, .mcp.json, Docker configs) using jq.

Files

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Json-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

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name: json-config-helper
description: Validate, format, and work with JSON configuration files
---

# Json-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

Add examples of how to use this skill here.

## Notes

- This skill was auto-generated
- Edit this file to customize behavior