verify-work

verify-work is a command for coding agents from MadaraUchiha-314/the-loop. It costs 25 tokens per session (992 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that carries out a previously written testing plan for a completed work item and records the verification results. It sits between implementation and code review in the project's workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to load a work item's testing plan, run its planned checks, record the results, and commit the verification evidence. If the work is unfinished, it stops instead.
Why use it?
It prevents unfinished work from being treated as verified and preserves evidence of what was tested and what happened.

Command

Part of the the-loop plugin — 2 skills, 37 commands, 2 hooks 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 commands/madarauchiha-314/the-loop/verify-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadaraUchiha-314/the-loop

Or install the-loop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 37 commands, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 992 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 $0.00025 $0.00992
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00496
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00099

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1274f0fa64e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify-work 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.

commands/verify-work.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

the-loop: verify-work $ARGUMENTS

Prove the work item: execute the locked testing-plan.md and turn it into a record — the verification node, between implementation and the review chain. A slice of /the-loop:work-on (step 3 of /the-loop:execute-tasks); work-on remains the superset.

Read the the-loop skill and reference/testing.md first. Load .the-loop/harness-config.yaml and every doc registered in customInstructions.docs — the environment the plan references is usually described there.

Steps

  1. Locate & load. Resolve $ARGUMENTS to docs/specs/<id>/ and read testing-plan.md, tasks.md and execution-log.md. Every task should be ticked; if the DAG is unfinished, say so and stop — verification proves finished work.

    No testing-plan.md? Then test-planning was declared skipped for this work item (issue-179) — check graph-state.json. Do not author one now: the phase was declared away by a human, and re-creating its artifact from this side of the gate is exactly what that declaration refused. Verify the change on its merits instead (run the project's linters/tests, exercise what changed), and record the results in execution-log.md's ## Verification results section — the node gates that section in place of the plan and blocks until it holds something. Everything below about what to run and how to record it still applies; only the file changes.

  2. Bring up the environment declared in the plan's Verification environment: repositories, services, fixtures, using the project's own commands. Credentials resolve from the referenced env vars / secret store — the plan never contains values. If bring-up fails: record it under Verification results, leave the dependent activities unticked, and escalate. Do not pass the gate on an environment that never came up.

  3. Run each planned activity in the plan's Verification activities checklist. Tick a line (- [ ]- [x]) only once it has actually run and its evidence is recorded. An activity that cannot be executed stays unticked: write why under Verification results, then either replan the matrix (with the reason) or escalate. Silently dropping a planned activity is not permitted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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 · 67 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 1274f0fa64e2

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verify-work is a command published in the GitHub repository MadaraUchiha-314/the-loop (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 992 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.