verification-gate

verification-gate is a cursor rule for Cursor from yonatangross/orchestkit. It costs 11 tokens per session (349 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule that requires fresh proof before claiming that work is complete or successful. Proof can come from a test suite, linter, build, or type check and must include its result.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps verify tests, builds, lint checks, and type checks before reporting that a change works or is ready.
Why use it?
It prevents unsupported claims based on old runs, assumptions, or confidence alone.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor plugin manifest.

Good fit It helps verify tests, builds, lint checks, and type checks before reporting that a change works or is ready.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/yonatangross/orchestkit/verification-gate
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for verification-gate

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/yonatangross/orchestkit/verification-gate/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/yonatangross/orchestkit/verification-gate)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/yonatangross/orchestkit/verification-gate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/yonatangross/orchestkit/verification-gate/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for verification-gate

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/yonatangross/orchestkit/verification-gate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/yonatangross/orchestkit/verification-gate.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 349 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00011 $0.00349
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00035

Measured 3d ago against content hash d1058ae0e4ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-gate 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 3d 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.

plugins/ork/.cursor-plugin/rules/verification-gate.mdc · 47 lines

What it actually says

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

Before ANY claim of success, completion, or readiness:

  1. IDENTIFY the proof command (test suite, linter, build, type check)
  2. RUN it fresh — previous runs do NOT count
  3. READ the complete output and exit code
  4. VERIFY the output actually matches your claim
  5. ONLY THEN state the claim with cited evidence

Red Flags

If you catch yourself writing any of these, STOP:

  • "Should work now" → RUN IT
  • "Done!" before running tests → you are NOT done
  • "I'm confident that..." → PROVE IT with output
  • Expressing satisfaction before verification → RESET

Evidence Format

✅ Tests pass (exit 0, 47/47 green)
✅ Build succeeds (exit 0, 0 warnings)
✅ Types check (exit 0, 0 errors)

Not acceptable:

❌ "Should be fine"
❌ "I believe this works"
❌ "Tests were passing earlier"

Scope

This is the MINIMUM gate every skill must pass. It is NOT a replacement for /ork:verify (full pipeline with parallel agents and grading).

Violating the letter of this rule IS violating the spirit of this rule. No exceptions for time pressure, exhaustion, or user requests to skip.

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. 3d ago First seen · 47 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A d1058ae0e4ed

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verification-gate is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository yonatangross/orchestkit (264 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 349 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 2026-09-09.