verification-before-completion

A checklist for verifying a coding task before reporting it as complete. It requires checking the build, relevant tests, the project’s linting or formatting rules, the original request, and possible regressions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before declaring a fix or feature finished, especially to run the narrowest relevant tests first, then broader checks when practical.
Why use it?
It prevents agents from claiming a change works without actually testing it. Failures or skipped checks must be reported plainly.

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/duckbugio/flock/verification-before-completion
Any agent
npx skills add duckbugio/flock --skill verification-before-completion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/duckbugio/flock

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 424 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 $0.00058 $0.00424
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00212
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00042

Measured 3d ago against content hash 01fff12a93b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

core/skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Verify before you claim it's done

Saying "done" without checking is the most common way an agent ships a broken change. Before you report a coding task as finished, fixed, or working, VERIFY it — do not assume.

Checklist (do it, don't narrate it)

  1. Build / compile what you changed. If it doesn't build, it isn't done.
  2. Run the relevant tests with the project's own command (a Taskfile/ Makefile target, go test, npm test, …). Run the narrowest command that covers your change first, then the fuller suite if it's cheap. If the area you changed has no test and the change is non-trivial, add one.
  3. Run the linter/formatter the project uses and fix what it flags.
  4. Re-read the request and confirm EVERY part is addressed — not just the easy part. Check the edge cases and error paths you touched.
  5. Look for regressions — did the change break a caller, a contract, a test, or a neighbouring feature?

Reporting

  • Report what you actually ran and its result ("go test ./... green, task lint 0 issues"), never "should work".
  • If something failed, or you could not verify a part, SAY SO plainly — never paper over a failure or a skipped step.
  • If a test fails, fix the code (or the test, if the test was wrong) before claiming done — don't hand back a red build.

A task is "done" only when you have evidence it works, not when the code looks right.

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 · 36 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 01fff12a93b0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-before-completion is a skill published in the GitHub repository duckbugio/flock (506 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 424 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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