verify-change

verify-change is a skill for Claude Code from dnsdoctor/claude-plugin. It costs 88 tokens per session (5,183 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of fix-dmarc, Apache-2.0.

A DNS verification guide for checking whether a recently edited domain record is live. DNS is the system that tells the internet where a domain's websites and email services are located; the guide reads records from the domain's nameservers and checks multiple locations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It verifies DMARC, SPF, DKIM, MX, TXT, CNAME, A, and AAAA records after a change, reports whether propagation is complete or still pending, and says when to check again.
Why use it?
It separates a published record from one that has reached other DNS caches, and distinguishes an empty answer from a lookup failure. This avoids claiming that a record is missing when the check could not complete.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dns-doctor plugin — 3 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It verifies DMARC, SPF, DKIM, MX, TXT, CNAME, A, and AAAA records after a change, reports whether propagation is complete or still pending, and says when to check again.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dnsdoctor/claude-plugin/verify-change
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 dnsdoctor/claude-plugin --skill verify-change
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dnsdoctor/claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dns-doctor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,183 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00088 $0.05183
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.02073
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00518

Measured yesterday against content hash 031a20964ecc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

verify-change scanned grade B 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 yesterday.

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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

signature that proves the mail is really yours)"), and don't lecture or scare.
Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to fix-dmarc — 95 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/verify-change/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verify a DNS change

The user changed a record and wants to know it worked. Three reads, in order, each ending on the next one. Stop when the user's question is answered.

Rules

  • Observation only. No record is ever composed here. If the user needs a record, it comes from a DNS Doctor tool result, printed verbatim.
  • An empty answer is absence; a lookup failure (cant_tell, transient, unavailable) is unknown, never "the record is missing".
  • SPF is diagnose-only: if the SPF read looks wrong, relay what was found and never propose an SPF edit of your own.
  • Plain words for a non-expert: see "Explain it for a non-expert" at the end of this skill.

Flow

  1. Did it land? Call check_record with the domain, the kind (spf, dmarc, txt, mx, cname, a, aaaa), host for a label such as selector1._domainkey or www (txt, cname, a and aaaa only), and expected_value set to the value they published (exactly as they gave it, or as the tool that issued it returned it). Relay verdict:
    • done: their nameservers serve it and both caches agree. End with: "Want me to check it has reached every region?" and, on yes, go to step 2.
    • wait: it is published, caches are still catching up. Say when to look again (check_again_after_seconds, said in minutes) and end with: "Tell me then and I'll check again."
    • edit: their nameservers do not serve it. If found_at names another place, say the value was published there instead (often the domain typed twice in the host field). End with: "Fix that, then tell me and I'll check again."
    • not_registered: true: the domain does not exist (usually a typo). Ask which domain they meant. Two resolvers is the whole sample of this read: never call it worldwide.
  2. Has it propagated? Call check_propagation with the exact name the record lives at (_dmarc.example.com for DMARC, selector._domainkey.example.com for DKIM, the apex for SPF and MX), record_type (TXT for SPF, DMARC and DKIM), and the same expected_value. You have one network vantage point; this reads six. Report vantage_reached of vantage_total. An unavailable cell is a probe that did not answer, never absence there. A verdict of unknown means coverage was too thin to call: say so, never round it up. If some regions still show the old value, end with when to look again (the record's TTL) and "tell me then and I'll check again".
  3. Confirm the effect. When the change was a fix from a DNS Doctor scan, once step 1 says done call scan_domain again and say whether the check now passes. When it was a DNS Doctor verification record, call check_domain_verification instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 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. yesterday First seen · 268 lines · 88 tokens per session scan B 031a20964ecc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify-change is a skill published in the GitHub repository dnsdoctor/claude-plugin (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 5,183 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). It is 91% identical to fix-dmarc, differing in 95 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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