verification-before-done

verification-before-done is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from baphuongna/pi-crew. It costs 9 tokens per session (658 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for proving that a coding task is complete through fresh checks and direct evidence. It compares claims such as “tests pass” or “bug fixed” with the command or inspection that actually verifies them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Verifying tests, type checks, bug fixes, requirements, agent work, and whether changes are safe to commit.
Why use it?
It prevents relying on old runs, reassuring logs, or assumptions. The result is a clearer distinction between what was changed and what has been demonstrated to work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Verifying tests, type checks, bug fixes, requirements, agent work, and whether changes are safe to commit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/baphuongna/pi-crew/verification-before-done
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 baphuongna/pi-crew --skill verification-before-done
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baphuongna/pi-crew

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 658 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 74
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 79
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00009 $0.00658
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00066

Measured 9d ago against content hash cca0dec0bcb0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-before-done 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 9d 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.

skills/verification-before-done/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

verification-before-done

Core principle: evidence before claims. A worker report, green-looking log, or previous run is not fresh verification.

Distilled from detailed reads of agent-skill patterns for verification-before-completion, TDD, review reception, and QA workflows.

Gate Function

Before any completion claim:

  1. Identify the command or inspection that proves the claim.
  2. Run the full command fresh, or explicitly state why a command cannot be run.
  3. Read the output, including exit code and failure counts.
  4. Compare the output to the claim.
  5. Report the claim only with the evidence.

Claim-to-Evidence Table

Claim Requires Not sufficient
Tests pass Fresh test output with zero failures Prior run, "should pass"
Typecheck passes Typecheck command exit 0 Lint or targeted tests only
Bug fixed Original symptom/regression test passes Code changed
Requirements met Checklist against request/plan Generic test success
Agent completed Worker output plus artifact/diff/state inspection Worker says DONE
Safe to commit Relevant checks pass and status reviewed Partial local confidence

Verification Ladder

Choose the smallest reliable gate, then escalate when risk requires it:

  1. Read-only inspection for plans/reviews.
  2. Targeted unit test for touched behavior.
  3. Typecheck for TypeScript/schema/API changes.
  4. Integration test for runtime, subprocess, state, filesystem, UI, config, or session behavior.
  5. Full suite before commit/release or broad changes.
  6. Real Pi smoke only when safe and needed.

Done Report

Include:

  • changed files or read-only status;
  • commands run and pass/fail result;
  • artifacts, run IDs, logs, or state paths inspected;
  • behavior actually verified;
  • skipped checks and why;
  • risks and rollback notes.

Required Final Evidence

Before finalizing any work, report:

  • changed files: list of files modified (or none for read-only work)
  • tests/checks run: command and pass/fail result for each
  • artifacts: run IDs, log paths, or state files inspected
  • risks and rollback notes: any known risks, how to undo the changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 9d ago First seen · 83 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A cca0dec0bcb0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-before-done is a skill published in the GitHub repository baphuongna/pi-crew (52 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 658 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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