verification-evidence

verification-evidence is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bartoszarendt/agenticloop. It costs 80 tokens per session (4,738 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for collecting fresh proof before saying that software work is done, fixed, passing, complete, or ready to merge. It records how checks were run and what their results show.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running and documenting required checks, verifying test or command results, recording manual observations, and distinguishing valid evidence from unsupported completion claims.
Why use it?
It prevents success claims based only on assumptions, stale results, or an unverified status message. It also handles timeouts, retries, and different kinds of evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agenticloop plugin — 18 skills, 2 commands, 4 agents 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/bartoszarendt/agenticloop/verification-evidence
Any agent
npx skills add bartoszarendt/agenticloop --skill verification-evidence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bartoszarendt/agenticloop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agenticloop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 2 commands, 4 agents.

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-evidence

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bartoszarendt/agenticloop/verification-evidence"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bartoszarendt/agenticloop/verification-evidence.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,738 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 $0.00080 $0.04738
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.02369
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00948
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00474

Measured today against content hash f0e8cd4f1148, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-evidence 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-evidence/SKILL.md · 458 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 458 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification evidence

Evidence before claims, always. A success claim without a fresh run behind it is misreporting, not optimism.

Proof Kinds And Sources

For a typed required check, retain its proof kind independently from its satisfaction source. Kinds are command, manual, and contract_proof. Sources are pr_body, status_check, manual_observation, and automated_observation. A status check is an allowed substitute only when the task explicitly permits that exact source for a command check; it never satisfies manual or contract-proof work merely because an RC ID matches. A check that declares observations always requires its structured observation records; even an exact successful status check cannot substitute them. The task contract is validated before either PR-body evidence or a status check can satisfy it. A command proof must declare its exact command in a backtick code span. Invalid kinds or sources, status-check satisfaction on a non-command proof, and observations with no structured PR-body observation source are Maintainer-owned task-policy failures.

Manual and contract-proof evidence records each declared observation with the canonical structured shape: one Observation: <id> per declared observation, with its Level: (running_path unless the task pins name@level), a concrete Result: or bounded excerpt, the current Artifact:, and the entry's Source:. Copied observation names, generic pass counts, helper-only state, parser or unit-only results, and mock-bound arguments are not evidence unless the task pins that level as the oracle. An entry's kind comes from its own shape: an explicit Kind:, else a backtick command is command evidence and anything else is manual; a command-shaped entry never satisfies a manual check.

The gate

Before any "done", "fixed", "passing", "green", or "complete" claim:

  1. Identify the command or check that proves the claim.
  2. Run it fresh after the last edit.
  3. Read the full output and exit code.
  4. Verify that the output supports the claim.
  5. Attach the relevant evidence to the task record, implementation summary, review, or closeout.

Read the full file on GitHub · 458 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 Changed · +8 lines f0e8cd4f1148
  2. 5d ago First seen · 450 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 874ce2077d0c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-evidence is a skill published in the GitHub repository bartoszarendt/agenticloop (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 4,738 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 2026-08-31.

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