verify

A verification command that runs the project’s available checks, such as linting, type checking, tests, builds, rule-drift checks, and commit-message checks. Linting checks code style and common mistakes; type checking catches incompatible data types.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a pre-commit gate to verify code quality, correctness, buildability, alignment with project rules, and the proposed commit message.
Why use it?
It provides fresh command output before completion, so results are based on checks run for the current changes rather than old evidence.

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/tacoda/keystone/verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tacoda/keystone
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 370 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 $0.00019 $0.00370
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00185
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00037

Measured 2d ago against content hash e3096476a786, 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.

.charter/commands/verify.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

verify

Run the verification sensors — lint, type-check, test, build, drift, commit-message. Pre-commit gate. Read .charter/guides/process/verification.md.

Activities

Run every sensor classified as runnable in .charter/corpus/state/CODEBASE_STATE.md, in this turn (no stale evidence). For each sensor:

  1. lint.charter/sensors/lint.md. Invoke the project's lint command.
  2. type-check.charter/sensors/type-check.md. Invoke the type-check command. Skip if no type checker.
  3. test.charter/sensors/test.md. Invoke the test command. Fresh run.
  4. build.charter/sensors/build.md. Invoke the build command.
  5. drift.charter/sensors/drift.md. Compare diff to loaded guides.
  6. commit-message.charter/sensors/commit-message.md. Inspect the proposed message before git commit.

Show the actual tool output for each. Do not claim a sensor passed without producing its output this turn.

Iron law

No completion claims without fresh verification evidence. Sensors must run in this turn.

On failure

Return to implementation. Do not "fix forward" inside verify. After the fix, re-invoke verify in a fresh turn.

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 · 30 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A e3096476a786

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify is a command published in the GitHub repository tacoda/keystone (44 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 370 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 2026-08-30.