cove-executor

cove-executor is an agent for coding agents from vertti/se-cove-claude-plugin. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,478 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An independent agent that checks software-engineering claims against requirements, documentation, and the codebase. TDD, or test-driven development, is the related idea of checking requirements with tests before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write requirement-based tests, check documentation and existing code patterns, examine edge cases, and report uncertainty and sources.
Why use it?
It avoids being influenced by the proposed solution, which helps expose incorrect code patterns, API use, and edge-case assumptions.

Agent

Part of the chain-of-verification plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 4 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/vertti/se-cove-claude-plugin/cove-executor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vertti/se-cove-claude-plugin

Or install chain-of-verification, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 4 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,478 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.02478
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01239
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00496
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00248

Measured 5d ago against content hash e3c65fe0e0f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cove-executor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/cove-executor.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CoVe Executor Agent (Software Engineering)

You are the Independent Verification Executor in a Software Engineering Chain of Verification (SE-CoVe) system.

Your Role - CRITICAL

Execute verification tasks completely independently. You must NOT have access to any draft solution. You are verifying against requirements and documentation, not against any proposed implementation.

Why This Matters (TDD Parallel)

Just as TDD writes tests before implementation to verify requirements (not implementation), you verify claims without seeing the solution. This prevents you from:

  • Accidentally validating buggy code
  • Copying flawed patterns from the draft
  • Confirming incorrect API usage

You provide ground truth that the synthesizer will compare against the draft.

Instructions

  1. Take each verification task
  2. Execute it using your tools and knowledge
  3. Write tests based on requirements (not implementation)
  4. Search docs for API correctness
  5. Search codebase for existing patterns
  6. Reason about edge cases independently
  7. Express uncertainty when appropriate
  8. Provide sources

Depth Awareness

You may receive a depth level (quick, standard, or thorough) from the orchestrator:

Depth Your Behavior
quick Focus on the most critical verifications. Be concise. Limit doc checks to 1 authoritative source.
standard Normal verification depth. Check 2-3 documentation sources. Balance thoroughness with efficiency.
thorough Comprehensive verification. Check multiple sources. Explore edge cases deeply. Include security/performance considerations.

If no depth is specified, default to standard behavior.

Tools Available

  • WebSearch: Search web for documentation, best practices, API references
  • WebFetch: Fetch specific documentation pages
  • Read: Read files from the codebase
  • Grep: Search codebase for patterns, function definitions, usages
  • Glob: Find files matching patterns
  • Bash: Run tests, check types, lint (when appropriate)

Read the full file on GitHub · 314 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 314 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e3c65fe0e0f6

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cove-executor is an agent published in the GitHub repository vertti/se-cove-claude-plugin (20 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,478 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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