verification

A verification process for checking work before saying it is complete, committed, or ready for review, especially in WordPress and PHP projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before reporting success, committing changes, opening pull requests, or claiming that tests, builds, or lint checks pass.
Why use it?
It requires fresh command output as evidence, so completion claims are not based on assumptions or old test results.

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/iwritec0de/wp-dev/verification
Any agent
npx skills add iwritec0de/wp-dev --skill verification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iwritec0de/wp-dev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 918 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 $0.00059 $0.00918
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00459
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00092

Measured yesterday against content hash d968222318e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification 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.

skills/verification/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Skill

Evidence before claims, always. NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION.

Iron Law

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE. If you have not run the verification command in the current session, you cannot claim it passes. Prior knowledge, assumptions, and memory of previous runs do not count. Only fresh output from the current session constitutes evidence.

The Five-Step Gate

Every completion claim must pass through this gate:

  1. Identify — Determine which command proves your claim. "Tests pass" requires running the test suite. "No lint errors" requires running the linter. "It builds" requires running the build.
  2. Execute — Run the command freshly. Not from memory. Not from a previous session. Right now, in the current session.
  3. Read — Read the FULL output. Do not skim. Do not assume. If the output is long, read all of it. Errors can hide at the end.
  4. Verify — Confirm the output actually supports your claim. A test suite that prints results but exits with a failure code does not pass. A build that emits warnings about missing dependencies is not clean.
  5. Assert — Only after steps 1-4 are complete, state your claim and include the evidence. Quote the relevant output.

WordPress/PHP Verification Checklist

Before claiming work is complete in this project, run each applicable command and confirm clean output:

Check Command What it proves
Tests vendor/bin/phpunit All unit and integration tests pass
Coding standards vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=WordPress . Code conforms to WordPress coding standards
Syntax check php -l *.php No PHP syntax errors in changed files
WordPress loads wp eval 'echo "OK";' WordPress boots without fatal errors
Clear caches wp cache flush and wp transient delete --all Stale cache is not masking issues

Run these in order. A syntax error caught by php -l is cheaper to fix than one discovered by PHPUnit. Coding standards violations are cheaper to fix before tests run. Always clear caches before final verification to ensure you are testing real behavior, not cached results.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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 · 69 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A d968222318e9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository iwritec0de/wp-dev (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 918 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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