verification-gate

verification-gate is a skill for Claude Code from duthaho/claudekit. It costs 87 tokens per session (2,622 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-completion check that requires evidence before calling a coding task, feature, or pull request finished.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before opening a pull request, marking a fix complete, confirming acceptance criteria, or pushing changes that trigger deployment.
Why use it?
It prevents unsupported claims based only on a local impression or a happy-path test. The required evidence can reveal failures before merging or deploying.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the claudekit plugin — 15 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it before opening a pull request, marking a fix complete, confirming…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/duthaho/claudekit/verification-gate
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 duthaho/claudekit --skill verification-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/duthaho/claudekit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claudekit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 8 agents.

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 verification-gate

README.md
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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,622 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00087 $0.02622
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01311
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00524
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00262

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3fb18a0c409e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-gate scanned grade A 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

3. If a service endpoint: hit it with `curl` or your project's HTTP test tool.
skills/verification-gate/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Gate

Overview

A pre-completion gate that converts the assertion "this is done" into evidence: the test output, the command run, the behavioral observation. The skill exists because "done" is a self-reported state and self-reports are wrong roughly half the time on real changes. The gate is short — five minutes — but it catches the class of mistake where an engineer claims a fix works after only running tests in their IDE, only verifying happy-path, only checking a single environment. This is the load-bearing skill of v4: every other skill funnels through it before its work is called done.

When to Use

  • Before opening a PR for review
  • Before declaring a bug fixed in response to a ticket or incident
  • Before checking off an Acceptance: line in a plan
  • Before pushing to a branch that triggers a deploy
  • Whenever you catch yourself thinking "I'm done" — pause and run this gate

When NOT to Use

  • During exploratory work where "done" doesn't apply yet
  • Mid-implementation, when the partial work is committed for checkpoint reasons but not claimed complete
  • For changes already merged and ack'd — the gate is pre-completion, not post-completion

Process

Step 1: Restate the claim

Goal: Make the "done" claim explicit and falsifiable.

Inputs: Whatever you were about to call done.

Actions:

  1. Write one sentence: I am claiming <X> is complete because <Y>. X is the work; Y is the evidence you intend to show. Don't do anything else until you've written it.
  2. If Y is "tests pass and the code looks right," return to Step 2 — the evidence is too vague.

Output: A claim sentence written down (PR description, scratch file, or comment).

Step 2: Run the named tests with full output

Goal: Prove the tests asserting this work pass, with evidence pasted.

Inputs: The list of tests relevant to this work.

Actions:

  1. Run the project's test command for this scope. Use the exact form from the plan's Acceptance: line if it exists.
  2. Capture the full output, not just "PASSED." The output should show test names and a pass count.
  3. Run the broader suite for the file or module — confirm no regressions.
  4. Paste the output (or a referenced artifact) into the PR / scratch file.

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 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. 7d ago First seen · 198 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 3fb18a0c409e

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verification-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository duthaho/claudekit (97 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 2,622 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.