source-verification

source-verification is a skill for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 85 tokens per session (2,188 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A claim-checking tool for generated documents, code changes, and review comments. It checks factual statements against the repository's code and, when needed, external sources, and marks claims it cannot confirm as unverifiable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before publishing content or approving changes that make specific factual claims about a repository or outside software and standards.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of publishing incorrect statements about code, tools, versions, APIs, or specifications.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before publishing content or approving changes that make specific factual claims about a repository or outside software and standards.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/source-verification
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 bdfinst/agentic-dev-team --skill source-verification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

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 source-verification

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/source-verification/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/source-verification)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/source-verification"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/source-verification/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 source-verification

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/source-verification"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/source-verification.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,188 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 $0.00085 $0.02188
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00875
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00438
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00219

Measured 17d ago against content hash 8981d6ee5644, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

source-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 17d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/claim_extractor.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/dev-team/skills/source-verification/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Source Verification

Role: worker. This command extracts and checks claims directly — it does not generate new claims, and it does not replace a human reviewer's own judgment on content that isn't a checkable factual assertion (opinions, style choices, and narrative prose are out of scope).

Wraps scripts/claim_extractor.py's extract_claims() heuristic scan with a model-driven verification pass: grep/read for claims about this repo's own code, WebFetch/WebSearch for claims about external tools or specs. Never treat "couldn't check" as "verified" — a claim that can't be confirmed is reported unverifiable, not silently dropped and not defaulted to verified.

Procedure

Step 1: Extract claims

Run extract_claims(text) from scripts/claim_extractor.py over the target text or diff. This returns a list of Claim objects, each with a kind of "code" (claim about this repo's own code/tooling), "external" (claim about something outside this repo — a library, spec, or tool), or "ambiguous" (both a local identifier/path/version and an external citation phrase are present).

Step 2: Empty-state check

If extract_claims() returns zero claims, report the following message verbatim and stop — do not proceed to Step 3:

No externally-checkable claims found in <target>.

(<target> is the file path, diff description, or other label identifying what was scanned.)

Step 3: Verify each claim

For every extracted claim, resolve a verdict — verified, contradicted, or unverifiable — using the path that matches its kind:

code-kind claims — grep and read this repo's own code:

  1. Identify the identifier, path, or version the claim names.
  2. Grep for it in the codebase; read the matching source.
  3. Compare what the claim asserts against what the source actually shows.
  4. verified when the source confirms the claim, citing the file and line. contradicted when the source shows something different, citing both the actual value/behavior and the file and line. unverifiable when no matching identifier/path/version is found anywhere in the codebase.

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 17d ago Changed 8981d6ee5644
  2. 25d ago First seen · 211 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 4f5fa0ab3155

Subscribe to this mod's changes

source-verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 2,188 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-23.

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