verify

A command that checks a WordPress plugin before publishing it. WordPress is a website platform, and readme.txt contains a plugin's listing information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run publishing checks, optionally ignore matching files, skip the remote readme check, specify a WordPress installation, or receive JSON output.
Why use it?
It finds local metadata problems and results from WordPress.org's readme validator and official Plugin Check without uploading or changing SVN.

Command

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 commands/automattic/pressship/verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Automattic/pressship
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 150 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 $0.00000 $0.00150
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00075
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00030
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00015

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6c761d4d58a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify 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 2d 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.

website/docs/commands/verify.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Verify

npx pressship verify ./my-plugin

verify runs Pressship's publishing checks without creating a zip, uploading a submission, or touching SVN.

It checks:

  • local readme.txt metadata;
  • the remote WordPress.org readme validator;
  • the official WordPress.org Plugin Check.

The command exits with a non-zero status when blocking findings are reported.

Options

pressship verify ./my-plugin --ignore "assets/**/*.mp4"
pressship verify ./my-plugin --skip-readme-validator
pressship verify ./my-plugin --wp-path /path/to/wordpress
pressship verify ./my-plugin --json
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. 2d ago First seen · 29 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6c761d4d58a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify is a command published in the GitHub repository Automattic/pressship (51 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 150 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.