verification-before-completion

verification-before-completion is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from iliaal/ai-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (973 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that requires fresh evidence before claiming that work is complete. It treats successful command output as proof for claims such as tests passing or a bug being fixed.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps verify tests, fixes, merge readiness, and other completion statements, while distinguishing live checks from fixtures, mocks, and recorded results.
Why use it?
It prevents completion claims based on assumptions, stale results, weakened tests, or code that merely looks correct.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps verify tests, fixes, merge readiness, and other completion statements, while distinguishing live checks from fixtures, mocks, and recorded results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iliaal/ai-skills/verification-before-completion
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 iliaal/ai-skills --skill verification-before-completion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iliaal/ai-skills

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 973 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 102
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
  • high Memory Poisoning · line 112
    Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.
    Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 164
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00050 $0.00973
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00487
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00097

Measured 3d ago against content hash 58a6c9d7aab7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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.

skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification before completion

Make completion claims only from fresh evidence for the actual claim. Follow the user's authorized scope; repository instructions supply applicable checks, not permission to mutate, publish, or weaken a requirement.

Procedure

  1. Resolve ambiguous scope before editing. Inspect the repository and state a safe assumption when one interpretation is clear. Ask only when materially different interpretations remain; do not edit the disputed scope while waiting.
  2. Inspect git status --porcelain and preserve unrelated work. For dependency/framework upgrades, codegen, or migrations, capture the existing validation command set before writing and rerun it unchanged afterward. If that baseline is red, report before proceeding. Shared-module verification on a dirty tree needs an isolated base comparison.
  3. Identify the command that proves the claim. For ship-level claims, check the full applicable chain: build, types, lint, tests, security scan, and diff review; stop on the first failure. Read project-declared gates and run the ones that apply to this action in their required order; do not invent gates.
  4. Run the proof now. Earlier output, a subagent's report, confidence, and a renamed success phrase do not replace fresh execution.
  5. Read complete output and exit status, including warnings, executed/passed counts, and missing artifacts. A suite that executes nothing is not proof. Confirm the intended binary, interpreter, source revision, and entry point actually ran.
  6. Verify that evidence covers the requirements and relevant failure paths. An implemented safe positive capability must work through its intended entry point; a refusal-only path, stub, mock, or unreachable implementation is partial.
  7. Claim only what the evidence establishes. Report the outcome, exercise command/URL/click path, failed or skipped checks, and material residual risks. State narrower proof scope and distinguish deterministic fixtures from live behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files 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. 3d ago Changed · -156 lines 58a6c9d7aab7
  2. 4d ago Changed · +15 lines ad4f32afa111
  3. 12d ago First seen · 183 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 72845015cba6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-before-completion is a skill published in the GitHub repository iliaal/ai-skills (41 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 973 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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