self-verify

A work-checking procedure that requires an agent to run the project's build, tests, and lint checks before and after making changes. It records the starting result and the final result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when fixing bugs or adding features to prove that the change affected the expected tests and did not leave the project in an unknown state.
Why use it?
It distinguishes a real improvement from a test suite that happened to pass at the end. If checks remain failing, the work is parked with a note explaining the failure and attempts made.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/doidor/agentrig/self-verify
Any agent
npx skills add doidor/agentrig --skill self-verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doidor/agentrig

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 606 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 $0.00046 $0.00606
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00303
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00061

Measured 2d ago against content hash bd7202272a8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

self-verify 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/self-verify/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

self-verify (principle 5)

After producing changes, verify your own work before handoff. Do not invoke the reviewer until this loop converges.

Steps (do them in order; do not skip)

  1. Baseline. Run the install/build/test/lint commands from AGENTS.md's commands block once before you make any edit related to the failing symptom. Capture the result:

    • For a fix scenario: confirm the suite is RED in the expected way (the target test fails).
    • For a feature scenario: confirm the suite is GREEN (so you know your changes are what break it if it goes red later).
    • Surface this baseline in your transcript — e.g. "baseline: npm test → 1 fail (divide-by-zero)".
  2. Iterate. Make the change; re-run the commands. Cap at N=3 iterations.

  3. After. Re-run the full suite at the end and surface the new state explicitly — e.g. "after fix: npm test → 0 fails, all 4 tests pass". The transition from baseline → after is the evidence that your work did what you claim. Reporting only "tests pass" without the baseline is half a self-verification.

  4. Self-park if still red. Leave a precise note (what failed, what you tried) and move the task to parked. Never hand a red build to a reviewer.

Handoff checklist (run BEFORE you declare done)

  • Baseline output captured + surfaced in transcript
  • After output captured + surfaced in transcript
  • Diff is on-target (no unrelated churn — check git diff --stat)
  • Did you hit any non-obvious behavior or surprise? → run the log-gotcha skill before handing off. This includes silently-passing-yet-wrong APIs, JS-floating-point quirks, framework defaults that bit you, environment surprises, etc. Wiki entries are how the next agent avoids repeating your discovery.

Notes

  • Pin verification to your own HEAD; do not trust stale CI from an earlier commit.
  • If the build is too expensive to run a full baseline (10+ min), at minimum run the smallest set of tests that demonstrates the symptom before AND after your fix.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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. 2d ago First seen · 50 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A bd7202272a8e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

self-verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository doidor/agentrig (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 606 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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