fresh-guides-verify

fresh-guides-verify is a skill for Claude Code from artem-from-ua/claude-plugins. It costs 78 tokens per session (967 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification procedure for technologies placed on a project's watchlist. It checks the technology version, reads the official documentation for that version, and compares it with the agent's existing knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before giving advice about a watched technology when its behavior or instructions may differ between versions.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of giving advice based on an outdated or mismatched version. It also requires sources for version-specific guidance.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event.

Part of the fresh-guides plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before giving advice about a watched technology when its behavior or instructions may differ between versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/artem-from-ua/claude-plugins/fresh-guides-verify
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 artem-from-ua/claude-plugins --skill fresh-guides-verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/artem-from-ua/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fresh-guides, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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 fresh-guides-verify

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/artem-from-ua/claude-plugins/fresh-guides-verify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/artem-from-ua/claude-plugins/fresh-guides-verify/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 fresh-guides-verify

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/artem-from-ua/claude-plugins/fresh-guides-verify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/artem-from-ua/claude-plugins/fresh-guides-verify.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 967 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 $0.00078 $0.00967
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00483
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00097

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9241e56a446f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fresh-guides-verify 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 12d 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/fresh-guides/skills/fresh-guides-verify/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fresh Guides — Verification Procedure

A technology on the user's fresh-guides watchlist was detected in the conversation. Follow this procedure BEFORE giving version-specific advice.

Steps

1. Identify the matched technology

Find the matching entry in the watchlist (injected by SessionStart). Note:

  • The technology name from the watchlist
  • The configured docs URLs

2. Determine the current version

Before giving any advice, establish which version of the technology is in use:

  1. Check the project — look for version pins in lockfiles, config files, or dependency manifests (e.g., terraform { required_version }, package.json, go.mod, .tool-versions, Dockerfile FROM tags, provider version constraints).
  2. Check runtime — if the tool is available locally, run its version command (e.g., terraform version, kubectl version --client, aws --version).
  3. If neither works — ask the user: "Which version of are you using?" Do NOT assume "latest" — the user may be on an older version with different behavior.

All subsequent verification MUST target the specific version identified in this step.

3. Determine what needs verification

Identify the specific claim, API, behavior, config syntax, or default that could have changed since training cutoff. Not everything needs verification:

Verify: API signatures, default values, config syntax, deprecations, new features, pricing, limits, CLI flags, provider arguments, service quotas.

Skip verification: General concepts, design patterns, architectural principles, well-established fundamentals that don't change across versions.

4. Fetch official documentation

Use WebFetch on the configured doc URLs to find information about the specific topic:

  1. Try the most specific doc URL first (e.g., API reference > general docs)
  2. When the official docs have versioned URLs (e.g., /v1.6.x/, /latest/), target the URL for the user's specific version — not "latest"
  3. If the page is too large or doesn't contain the answer, use WebSearch with a targeted query: "<technology> <version> <specific feature/API> official documentation"
  4. For release notes / changelogs, search for the specific version or recent changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 12d ago First seen · 88 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 9241e56a446f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fresh-guides-verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository artem-from-ua/claude-plugins (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 967 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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