contract-verification

contract-verification is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ccashwell/evm-cortex. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,643 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to publishing a deployed Solidity contract's source code and build settings on blockchain explorers such as Etherscan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify regular, proxy, or multi-file contracts on Etherscan-compatible explorers and Blockscout.
Why use it?
It makes the contract's code publicly inspectable and enables explorer-based interaction, while avoiding failed verification caused by mismatched compiler or constructor settings.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to verify regular, proxy, or multi-file contracts on Etherscan-compatible explorers and Blockscout.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ccashwell/evm-cortex/contract-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 ccashwell/evm-cortex --skill contract-verification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ccashwell/evm-cortex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,643 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 7 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 Data Exfiltration · line 55
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 169
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 69
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 171
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 132
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 132
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 136
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00050 $0.01643
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00657
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00329
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00164

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7948a0637a44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

contract-verification scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl "https://api.etherscan.io/api?module=contract&action=verifyproxycontract&apikey=$ETHERSCAN_API_KEY" \
skills/contract-verification/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Contract Verification

Why Verify

Verified contracts show source code on block explorers, enabling:

  • Public auditability
  • Etherscan read/write UI for interaction
  • Trust from users and integrators
  • Required for many DeFi integrations

forge verify-contract

# Basic verification
forge verify-contract 0xContractAddress src/MyContract.sol:MyContract \
  --chain-id 1 \
  --etherscan-api-key $ETHERSCAN_API_KEY

# With constructor arguments
forge verify-contract 0xContractAddress src/MyToken.sol:MyToken \
  --chain-id 1 \
  --etherscan-api-key $ETHERSCAN_API_KEY \
  --constructor-args $(cast abi-encode "constructor(string,string,uint256)" "MyToken" "MTK" 1000000000000000000000000)

# With compiler settings matching deployment
forge verify-contract 0xContractAddress src/MyContract.sol:MyContract \
  --chain-id 1 \
  --etherscan-api-key $ETHERSCAN_API_KEY \
  --compiler-version v0.8.28 \
  --num-of-optimizations 200

# Watch verification status
forge verify-contract 0xContractAddress src/MyContract.sol:MyContract \
  --chain-id 1 \
  --etherscan-api-key $ETHERSCAN_API_KEY \
  --watch

Chain-Specific Verification

# Mainnet (Etherscan)
forge verify-contract $ADDR MyContract \
  --chain-id 1 --etherscan-api-key $ETHERSCAN_API_KEY

# Base (Basescan)
forge verify-contract $ADDR MyContract \
  --chain-id 8453 \
  --verifier etherscan \
  --verifier-url https://api.basescan.org/api \
  --etherscan-api-key $BASESCAN_API_KEY

# Optimism (Optimistic Etherscan)
forge verify-contract $ADDR MyContract \
  --chain-id 10 \
  --verifier etherscan \
  --verifier-url https://api-optimistic.etherscan.io/api \
  --etherscan-api-key $OPSCAN_API_KEY

# Arbitrum (Arbiscan)
forge verify-contract $ADDR MyContract \
  --chain-id 42161 \
  --verifier etherscan \
  --verifier-url https://api.arbiscan.io/api \
  --etherscan-api-key $ARBISCAN_API_KEY

Blockscout Verification

# Blockscout uses a different verifier
forge verify-contract $ADDR MyContract \
  --chain-id 8453 \
  --verifier blockscout \
  --verifier-url https://base.blockscout.com/api/

# Blockscout doesn't require an API key for most instances

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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. 1mo ago First seen · 224 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 7948a0637a44

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contract-verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository ccashwell/evm-cortex (131 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,643 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.