verification-before-completion

verification-before-completion is a skill for Claude Code from DollarDill/beads-superpowers. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,831 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for verifying work before saying it is complete, fixed, or passing. It requires running the command that proves the claim and reading its full result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before closing work, committing changes, creating pull requests, or reporting successful tests and fixes.
Why use it?
It prevents unsupported completion claims when tests or other checks have not actually confirmed the outcome.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the beads-superpowers plugin — 22 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before closing work, committing changes, creating pull requests, or reporting successful tests and fixes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dollardill/beads-superpowers/verification-before-completion
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 DollarDill/beads-superpowers --skill verification-before-completion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DollarDill/beads-superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install beads-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,831 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 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 Excessive Agency · line 73
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 78
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 84
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00043 $0.01831
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00915
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00183

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6e11a2082159, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-before-completion 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 8d 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.

skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Before Completion

Overview

Core principle: Evidence before claims, always.

Violating the letter of this rule is violating the spirit of this rule.

The Iron Law

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

If you haven't run the verification command in this message, you cannot claim it passes.

The Gate Function

BEFORE claiming any status or expressing satisfaction:

1. IDENTIFY: What command proves this claim?
2. RUN: Execute the FULL command (fresh, complete)
3. READ: Full output, check exit code, count failures
4. VERIFY: Does output confirm the claim?
   - If NO: State actual status with evidence
   - If YES: State claim WITH evidence
5. ONLY THEN: Make the claim
6. CLOSE: If this verification gates a bead closure, run `bd close <id> --reason "description with evidence from step 4"`

Skip any step = lying, not verifying

Agent-Filed Bead Discipline

When a skill files a bead for discovered/follow-up work (not planned work), stamp it so a human can triage risk at a glance.

  • Title: prefix [spec] ONLY if speculative. Confirmed beads keep clean titles.
  • Body/notes — always include this 3-field stamp:
    Severity: Critical | Important | Minor
    Confidence: Confirmed | Speculative
    Evidence: <file:line / failing test / repro>   (or: none)
    
  • Mechanical rule: evidence cited → Confidence: Confirmed; no evidence → Confidence: Speculative. Applies at all severities. Never blocks filing (surface-and-mark — Production-Grade Doctrine).
  • What counts as evidence (claim-substantiating AND checkable, not "a string exists"):
    • parser.ts:142 — returns null on empty input (fails t_parse_empty)
    • parser.ts — looks wrong
  • High-severity nudge: a Critical/Important bead filed without evidence MUST add one line: Why this severity w/o evidence: <reason>.
  • Priority (-p) stays human-owned — do not infer priority from severity.
  • Honest limit: this disciplines the instruction surface, not every runtime bead. Confidence: Confirmed is a falsifiable triage hint that lowers verification cost, not proof. The convention is forward-only — pre-existing beads stay unstamped.

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. 8d ago First seen · 181 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 6e11a2082159

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-before-completion is a skill published in the GitHub repository DollarDill/beads-superpowers (26 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,831 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 2026-08-30.

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