verifying

Instructions for checking changes before saying they are complete, fixed, or ready to commit or submit for review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them before reporting success, committing changes, or creating a pull request, where a pull request is a proposed code change for review.
Why use it?
They require fresh evidence from both tests and a separate rule check, reducing unsupported completion claims.

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/hitmandark07/neatcodeai/verifying
Any agent
npx skills add HITMANdark07/neatcodeai --skill verifying
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HITMANdark07/neatcodeai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,451 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 $0.00041 $0.01451
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00726
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00290
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00145

Measured yesterday against content hash 6e20545b453f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verifying 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 yesterday.

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.

packages/cli/templates/skills/verifying/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Before Completion

Overview

Claiming work is complete without verification is dishonesty, not efficiency.

Core principle: Evidence before claims, always.

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

This skill calls the validate_diff MCP tool as part of the completion gate. Tests passing is necessary but not sufficient — the change must also clear the repo's captured rules.

The Iron Law

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE FROM BOTH GATES

If you haven't run BOTH (a) the test command AND (b) validate_diff in this message, you cannot claim the change is done.

The Two Gates

A change is complete only when both of the following return clean in this turn:

Gate (a): Tests pass

  • Run the project's test command for the affected files (or the whole suite if scope is unclear)
  • Confirm exit code 0, zero failing assertions, no warnings beyond the project baseline

Gate (b): validate_diff returns clean

  • Call the validate_diff MCP tool with changes: [{file, new_content}, ...] for every file you intend to claim is done
  • Confirm violations is the empty array
  • If violations come back, DO NOT claim done. Hand off to the validating-diff skill to resolve them via the four-option UX (exception_once, exception_until, supersede, abort).

Both gates run on the SAME change set in the SAME turn. Tests passing yesterday plus a clean validate_diff from earlier today is not sufficient — the world may have moved.

The Gate Function

BEFORE claiming any status or expressing satisfaction:

1. IDENTIFY: What command proves gate (a)? What changes are passed to gate (b)?
2. RUN GATE (a): Execute the FULL test command (fresh, complete)
3. RUN GATE (b): Call validate_diff with the change set
4. READ: Full output of both, check exit code, count test failures, inspect violations array
5. VERIFY: Do both outputs confirm the claim?
   - If EITHER fails: state actual status with evidence; do not claim done
   - If BOTH pass: state claim WITH evidence (test summary + "validate_diff: clean")
6. ONLY THEN: Make the claim

Skip any step = lying, not verifying

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. yesterday First seen · 168 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 6e20545b453f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verifying is a skill published in the GitHub repository HITMANdark07/neatcodeai (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,451 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 2026-08-31.

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