ia-verification-before-completion

ia-verification-before-completion is a skill for Claude Code from iliaal/whetstone. It costs 52 tokens per session (975 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A completion-checking workflow that requires recent command results before claiming that tests pass, a bug is fixed, or work is ready. It also distinguishes real runtime evidence from mocks and saved test data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when finishing changes, handing work to someone else, or deciding whether a fix is ready to merge. It helps define what evidence is needed and report failures honestly.
Why use it?
It prevents unsupported completion claims and discourages changing tests or validation just to make them pass.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the whetstone plugin — 32 skills, 22 commands, 19 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when finishing changes, handing work to someone else, or deciding whether a fix is ready to merge. It helps define what evidence is needed and report failures honestly.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install whetstone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 22 commands, 19 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 975 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 $0.00052 $0.00975
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00487
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00097

Measured today against content hash 7a209abe1c06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ia-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 today.

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.

plugins/whetstone/skills/ia-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. today Changed · -172 lines 7a209abe1c06
  2. yesterday First seen · 214 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A f94aabaced6f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ia-verification-before-completion is a skill published in the GitHub repository iliaal/whetstone (33 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 975 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 2026-09-07.

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