verification-before-completion

verification-before-completion is a skill for Claude Code from ao92265/claude-code-playbook. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,268 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checking process that requires fresh evidence before claiming a task is finished. It matches claims such as a passing test, successful build, or deployment with a command that can prove them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before saying work is done to choose and run the relevant tests, build, health check, or configuration check, then remove unverified wording.
Why use it?
It prevents completion claims based only on code inspection or assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the playbook plugin — 48 skills, 4 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 skills/ao92265/claude-code-playbook/verification-before-completion
Any agent
npx skills add ao92265/claude-code-playbook --skill verification-before-completion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ao92265/claude-code-playbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install playbook, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 4 hooks.

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-before-completion

README.md
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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,268 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.00101 $0.01268
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00634
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00127

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2a5aa2544339, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-before-completion scanned grade A 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 6d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| "Deployed" | Health check or status endpoint (e.g., `curl https://api/health`) |
skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Before Completion

Core Rule: NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE.

Step 1: Identify the Proof Command

Before claiming any work is complete, determine the exact command that proves the claim:

Claim type Required proof command
"Tests pass" Fresh test runner invocation (e.g., pytest, npm test)
"Bug fixed" Test that reproduces the bug, run after the fix
"Deployed" Health check or status endpoint (e.g., curl https://api/health)
"Configured" Command that reads back the configured value
"Build succeeds" Full build command (e.g., tsc --noEmit, npm run build)
"Complete" All acceptance criteria individually verified

If no proof command can be identified, do not proceed to a completion claim. Ask the user how to verify.

Step 2: Scan Own Response for Unverified Language

Before finalizing any response that implies completion, check for the following phrases. If any are present, they must be replaced with verified evidence or removed:

Flagged phrase Problem
"should work now" Conditional, not verified
"that should fix it" Assumption, not proof
"probably passes" Uncertainty — not verified
"looks good" Visual inspection is not execution
"Done!" (before testing) Premature
"I believe this works" Belief is not evidence

If any flagged phrase is found: do not publish the response. Execute Step 3 first.

Rationalization Prevention

If you catch yourself thinking any of these, STOP and run verification instead:

Excuse Reality
"Should work now" RUN the verification
"I'm confident" Confidence ≠ evidence
"Just this once" No exceptions
"Linter passed" Linter ≠ compiler ≠ tests
"Agent said success" Verify independently — agent reports are claims, not proof
"Partial check is enough" Partial proves nothing about the whole
"Different words so rule doesn't apply" Spirit over letter — any implication of success counts
"I'll verify after I commit" Verification gates the commit, not the other way around

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 6d ago First seen · 138 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 2a5aa2544339

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-before-completion is a skill published in the GitHub repository ao92265/claude-code-playbook (10 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,268 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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