verification

A repository verification process that runs the checks defined by the project, such as builds, linting, type checks, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before opening or merging a pull request, and optionally add one verification report to that pull request.
Why use it?
It replaces subjective claims with measured pass or fail results from the repository's own commands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agentloop plugin — 18 skills 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/arcblock/agent-skills/verification
Any agent
npx skills add ArcBlock/agent-skills --skill verification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArcBlock/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentloop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,963 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 $0.00059 $0.01963
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00981
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00393
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00196

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4ec2409675ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification 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/agentloop/skills/verification/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

verification (agentloop engine)

Repo-agnostic. The check list and gate commands come from the consuming repo: .claude/repo-profile.md (gate_mode, verification_entry, pre_merge_entry) and .claude/verify/config.ts. Paths shown as .claude/verify/... are arc's defaults.

Deterministic gate whose numbers the scripts measure — the agent chooses which scenario to run and reads the result, but never hand-fills a stat. This is the guardrail: a check's exit code decides pass/fail, not a narrative.

Two layers

  • Engine (this plugin, repo-agnostic): lib/report.ts (CheckResult + render), lib/comment.ts (sticky PR-comment upsert), lib/scenario.ts (runScenario + cmd()). Knows nothing about pnpm/turbo/paths.
  • Repo config (in the consuming repo): .claude/verify/config.ts declares the check list. Command-checks are pure config (cmd({ command: "pnpm build" })); logic-checks import a repo-local module. A thin .claude/verify/pre-pr.ts calls runScenario(config, process.argv).

How to run

The repo exposes a scenario entry (<verification_entry>). Common flags:

--comment [<pr#>]   upsert the report onto the PR (run + post = one step)
--json              machine-readable
--na "<reason>"     write an N/A exemption (docs-only / native-only PRs)
--only a,b / --skip x,y   scope the check set (unknown id → hard error, exit 2)
                          → a scoped run is a DIAGNOSTIC, never a gate (see below)
--deliver-cached    post the cached PASS report without re-running

Run the gate with --comment <pr#> so "run" and "post" are one step. Exit codes: 0 = PASS (and, when --comment/--post was requested, the report WAS delivered); 1 = verify FAIL; 2 = empty check set / unknown --only/--skip id (fails loud, never silent-green); 4 = verified PASS but the requested report was NOT delivered — the remedy is to retry / fall back the comment post (e.g. paste the stdout sticky body via MCP), NOT to touch the diff. Do not hand-write the report or substitute a single tsc/build command for the scenario script.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 3d ago First seen · 121 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 4ec2409675ff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArcBlock/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,963 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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