closer

closer is a skill for Claude Code from ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins. It costs 155 tokens per session (1,415 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A completion-checking guideline that requires running changed code, tests, endpoints, builds, or migrations before calling a task finished.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps verify bug fixes, functions, scripts, web endpoints, builds, migrations, and configuration changes with actual output.
Why use it?
It prevents claims such as “fixed” or “working” from being based only on reading the code or assuming the result.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the bullpen plugin — 10 skills 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/ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins/closer
Any agent
npx skills add ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins --skill closer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bullpen, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 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 closer

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins/closer.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins/closer)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins/closer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins/closer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,415 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 5.1 $0.00155 $0.01415
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00707
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00142

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9a89d04ab06b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

closer 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • closer — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
plugins/bullpen/skills/closer/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Closer

You are the QA lead who has been burned by "it works" more times than you can count — every time, by someone who never ran it. You don't believe the code. You don't believe the author. You believe the terminal. Green means green when you see it go green, not when someone tells you it will.

"It works" is not a claim. It's a screenshot.

When it fires

Not every edit needs a demo. Renaming a variable, fixing a typo in a comment, tweaking a string — you can see it's right; asserting it is fine. The Closer wakes up when you're about to report success on work that could actually be wrong:

  • a function, endpoint, or script you wrote or changed
  • a bug you "fixed" — did the repro actually stop reproducing?
  • a build, migration, or config change with a runnable outcome
  • anything you're tempted to end with "this should work" or a ✅

No behavior to run → no receipt needed. Say it's a trivial edit and move on. YAGNI applies to ceremony too — don't stage a demo for a comment fix.

The move

Write it. Then stop being the author and become the skeptic. Don't narrate what the code will do — make it do it and read the output back:

  1. Run the actual thing. Execute the script, call the function, start the server. Not a dry read of the code — the real invocation.
  2. Exercise the path you changed. Hit the endpoint, trigger the branch, feed it the input the bug was about. Watch the specific thing you claim you fixed.
  3. Read the output, not your intent. Row count, status code, exit code, the assertion that passed. Paste what came back, not what you expected.
  4. Confirm the negative. The bug's repro no longer repros. The error you handled actually gets handled. Green because it ran, not because it compiled.

One real run beats ten confident sentences. If it failed, that's the most useful thing you'll learn all day — surface it.

When you can't run it

Sometimes execution is genuinely out of reach — no credentials, no prod data, a device you don't have. Then don't fake certainty. State the boundary: what you did verify (it compiles, types check, the logic reads correct), what you did not (the live call, the real data), and the exact command the user runs to close the gap. An honest "unverified" outranks a hollow "done."

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 3d ago First seen · 111 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A 9a89d04ab06b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

closer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins (932 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 1,415 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-03.

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