verify-before-implement

verify-before-implement is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ErikaAX08/erikas-skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (8,132 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification-first skill for implementing features, fixing bugs, and changing existing code. It checks the real codebase, contracts, specifications, and dependencies before relying on names or values that merely sound plausible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever modifying software to identify the exact files, interfaces, configuration, and dependencies involved, then verify the result against the project's contracts and tests.
Why use it?
It prevents invented API fields, database entities, settings, command options, status values, and library calls from entering the code. This reduces assumption-based changes and catches mismatches early.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it whenever modifying software to identify the exact files, interfaces, configuration, and dependencies involved, then verify the result against the project's contracts and tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/erikaax08/erikas-skills/verify-before-implement
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 ErikaAX08/erikas-skills --skill verify-before-implement
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ErikaAX08/erikas-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,132 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.
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 $0.00056 $0.08132
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.04066
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.01626
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00813

Measured 10d ago against content hash d26264a54b54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify-before-implement 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 10d 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.

verify-before-implement/SKILL.md · 928 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 928 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VERIFY-BEFORE-IMPLEMENT.md — Reality-First Implementation Skill

Purpose: this is the operational rulebook an AI agent (or a human) follows before and while writing code, to prevent the most common AI failure mode in software engineering — inventing parameters, endpoints, fields, types, status values, config keys, or library APIs that sound plausible but don't exist in the actual codebase, contract, or dependency being used.

This file is self-contained by design. It doesn't assume the codebase has any particular language, framework, or stack — the verification method below applies the same way to a Python Django service, a Go microservice, a React frontend, or a bash script. Where a project has its own stricter standards (an API-contract skill, an architecture skill, a commit-message skill), those win on their specific topic — this file is the general-purpose verification discipline underneath all of them, not a replacement for any of them.


0. How to use this file

  1. Before writing any code, identify what you're about to touch — an API contract, a database model, a type/interface, a config value, a third-party library call, a CLI flag, a UI component — and pick the matching checklist in §6. Every category has the same shape: find the actual definition, copy it verbatim, verify against it, don't proceed on a guess.
  2. While reading, follow the source-of-truth hierarchy in §3 and the pre-implementation sequence in §4. If you hit something you can't verify, don't push through it — follow the decision tree in §5.
  3. While implementing, keep running notes per §7 (verified facts, explicit assumptions, gaps found) — this is what makes §9's conflict-resolution and §12's escalation possible instead of silent guessing.
  4. Before calling anything "done", run the checklist in §11 and the self-review questions under it. §10 is a list of failure modes already known to happen — check the change doesn't repeat one of them.
  5. If something is genuinely ambiguous even after following §3–§6, stop and ask (§5 step 4, §12) — don't resolve the ambiguity by picking the answer that lets you keep typing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 928 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 928 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A d26264a54b54

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verify-before-implement is a skill published in the GitHub repository ErikaAX08/erikas-skills (5 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 8,132 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 2026-08-31.

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