verification-before-completion

verification-before-completion is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Archive228/loopkit. It costs 45 tokens per session (993 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Use before claiming work is complete, fixed, or passing — before committing, opening a PR, or handing off. Requires running the verification command in THIS turn and reading its output before any success claim.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/archive228/loopkit/verification-before-completion
Any agent
npx skills add Archive228/loopkit --skill verification-before-completion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Archive228/loopkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 993 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00045 $0.00993
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00496
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00099

Measured today against content hash 7b1f6ae902bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-before-completion 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 today.

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.

skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Before Completion

Claiming work done without fresh verification is dishonesty, not efficiency. adversarial-verify is the what; this skill is the when — the gate you pass through right before any completion claim.

The Iron Law

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

If you have not run the verification command in this message, you cannot claim it passes. Not "should", not "probably", not "based on the diff".

The gate function

Before writing "done" / "fixed" / "green" / "ready to merge" — even in your own head:

  1. Identify — what exact command proves this claim?
  2. Run — execute it fresh, complete, in this turn.
  3. Read — full output, check exit code, count failures.
  4. Verify — does the output actually confirm the claim?
  5. Only then — make the claim, with the evidence attached.

Skip any step = you are lying to the user, not verifying.

Common false claims → what they actually need

Claim Requires Not sufficient
Tests pass Fresh test run, exit 0, 0 failures "should pass", previous run, "logic looks right"
Linter clean Linter output, 0 errors Partial check, extrapolating from unrelated files
Build succeeds Build command, exit 0 Linter passing, editor squiggles gone
Bug fixed Reproduce original symptom, watch it not happen Code changed, "assumed" fixed
Regression test works Red → green cycle verified (revert fix, watch test fail, restore, watch pass) Test passes once
Agent/subagent completed Read the VCS diff, verify claimed changes exist Agent's own "success" report
Spec satisfied Line-by-line checklist against the plan "Tests pass, phase complete"

Red flags — you are about to claim without verifying

  • Words like "should", "probably", "seems to", "looks good"
  • Satisfaction language ("Great!", "Perfect!", "Done!") before running the command
  • About to commit / push / open PR without a verification block in this turn
  • Trusting a subagent's own success report
  • "Just this once" thinking, or "I'm tired, close enough"
  • Partial verification (linter passed, so build must)

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. today First seen · 97 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 7b1f6ae902bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-before-completion is a skill published in the GitHub repository Archive228/loopkit (755 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 993 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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