verify-before-irreversible-action

verify-before-irreversible-action is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aiming-lab/MetaClaw. It costs 54 tokens per session (190 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A safety checklist for actions that are difficult to undo, such as deleting files, overwriting data, sending messages, publishing changes, or pushing code to a remote repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing destructive commands, checking exact targets, using dry runs or staging options, and confirming before deletion, publication, remote pushes, or production changes.
Why use it?
An incorrect target or command can cause permanent data loss or an unintended external change. The checklist requires identifying the scope, previewing where possible, and asking for confirmation before significant irreversible actions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Reviewing destructive commands, checking exact targets, using dry runs or staging options, and confirming before deletion, publication, remote pushes, or production changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aiming-lab/metaclaw/verify-before-irreversible-action
About the project

MetaClaw is an AI-agent system that learns from conversations and evolves its behavior over time. It provides memory and learning modes for users who want an agent that adapts across interactions, with support for multiple claw-based agent projects.

aiming-lab/MetaClaw · 3,495 stars · on GitHub · arxiv.org

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.

Any agent
npx skills add aiming-lab/MetaClaw --skill verify-before-irreversible-action
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aiming-lab/MetaClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 190 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00054 $0.00190
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00095
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00019

Measured 11d ago against content hash 12f620061ba0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

verify-before-irreversible-action scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

**Examples of irreversible actions:** `rm -rf`, `git push --force`, `DROP TABLE`, sending an email, publishing a post.
memory_data/skills/verify-before-irreversible-action/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Verify Before Irreversible Action

Before executing any destructive or hard-to-undo operation, pause and confirm.

Checklist:

  • State explicitly what you are about to do and why.
  • Identify what cannot be undone if this goes wrong.
  • Ask the user to confirm if the action is significant.
  • Prefer dry-run or preview modes when available (git diff, --dry-run, staging environments).

Examples of irreversible actions: rm -rf, git push --force, DROP TABLE, sending an email, publishing a post.

Anti-pattern: Silently executing destructive operations without a confirmation step.

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. 11d ago First seen · 20 lines · 54 tokens per session scan C 12f620061ba0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify-before-irreversible-action is a skill published in the GitHub repository aiming-lab/MetaClaw (3,495 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 190 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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