check

check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from escoffier-labs/brigade. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,526 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification step for claims that code works, is fixed, complete, or ready. It requires running the actual relevant command after the latest change and checking its output and exit status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking scripts, builds, tests, fixes, completed tasks, and reports from other agents or tools before claiming they succeeded.
Why use it?
A plausible result or an earlier successful run does not prove the current code works. This prevents reporting success without fresh evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Checking scripts, builds, tests, fixes, completed tasks, and reports from other agents or tools before claiming they succeeded.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/escoffier-labs/brigade/check
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 escoffier-labs/brigade --skill check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/escoffier-labs/brigade

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 check

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/escoffier-labs/brigade/check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/escoffier-labs/brigade/check.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,526 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 $0.00069 $0.01526
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00763
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00153

Measured 7d ago against content hash bb8cdd477406, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check 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 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • check — 92% identical, 20 lines differ
registry/skills/check/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

check

"Check" is the expeditor's call: every plate gets looked at before it leaves the pass. Not the cook's word that it's right, not how it looked ten minutes ago - this plate, looked at now. This skill is that look, applied to any claim of done: run the thing, read the output, then say what the output says.

Core principle: evidence before claims, always. A completion claim without fresh verification is not optimism, it is a false report. Violating the letter of this rule is violating its spirit.

The iron law

No completion claim without fresh verification evidence in this same response. Have not run the proving command since the last change? Then "it works" is not available to you, and neither are its synonyms, paraphrases, or implications.

The gate

Before any claim of success, satisfaction, or readiness:

  1. Name the command that proves the claim. "The script works" is proved by running the script, not by running its prettiest component.
  2. Run it, fresh and whole. After the last change, the full thing: the actual script, the whole suite, the real build. Stale runs and partial runs prove nothing about the present.
  3. Read the output and the exit code. All of it. Count the failures yourself.
  4. Compare claim to evidence. Output contradicts the claim? The evidence wins; report the actual state.
  5. Then claim, with the evidence attached. Quote the command you ran and its actual output lines in the report, not a paraphrase of them. "All 34 pass" next to the run that shows it.

Skipping a step is not verifying faster; it is lying slower.

When verification fails, the failure is the finding

The proving command failed? Then the status is "not working", and that is what gets reported, with the failure output. The goal never changes from "report the true status" to "make the command exit 0". Creating a missing file the run depends on, planting fixture data, adjusting the environment, or editing the test until the command passes is not verification, it is manufacturing evidence; the claim it produces is false even though the exit code is real. Any change you made to get the run working is part of the work, goes through the same review as the work, and appears in the report. A verification step that needed the world quietly rearranged has verified the rearrangement, not the claim.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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 · 84 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A bb8cdd477406

Subscribe to this mod's changes

check is a skill published in the GitHub repository escoffier-labs/brigade (72 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,526 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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