verification-before-completion

verification-before-completion is a skill for Claude Code from krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso. It costs 131 tokens per session (2,879 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for proving that coding work is complete before saying it is done. It requires running relevant checks, such as tests, linters, type checks, builds, or smoke tests, and recording their results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before declaring a bug fix, configuration change, documentation update, migration, or other coding task finished or ready.
Why use it?
It prevents unfinished or broken changes from being presented as complete. The evidence comes from checks run during the current work, rather than from assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the agents-virtuoso plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before declaring a bug fix, configuration change, documentation update, migration, or other coding task finished or ready.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents-virtuoso, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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 verification-before-completion

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso/verification-before-completion"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso/verification-before-completion.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,879 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 $0.00131 $0.02879
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.01439
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00576
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00288

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2fc575c74289, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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/knowledge/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Before Completion

Discipline for proving work is done rather than asserting it. Every completion claim must be backed by captured output from verification commands executed in the current session. This skill exists because the most expensive bugs are not the ones that fail loudly — they are the ones that ship behind a confident "it works."

Iron Law

No "done" without evidence. Assertions are not evidence.

If you have not run a verification command and read its output in this session, you cannot claim the work passes. "Should work" is not a status. "I believe it's correct" is not a test result. The only acceptable proof is captured output from an executed command.

Why This Matters

False completion is more costly than incomplete work. Incomplete work is visible — someone will finish it. False completion is invisible — it passes review, merges, deploys, and fails in production. Every minute spent on proper verification saves hours of debugging, rollback, incident response, and trust repair. The cost of catching a defect multiplies by orders of magnitude at each stage: local development, code review, staging, production. Verify early, verify often, verify with evidence.

Core Principles

Principle Meaning
Evidence over assertion A claim is only as strong as the output backing it. No output, no claim.
Fresh over stale Only verification run in the current session counts. Previous runs prove nothing about current state.
Complete over partial Running one test file does not verify the suite. Running the linter does not verify the build. Each check covers its own surface.
Captured over remembered Paste the output. Do not summarize from memory. Memory lies.
Exit code over log lines A command that prints "OK" but exits non-zero has failed. Always check the exit code.
Automated over manual A reproducible command beats "I checked it manually" every time.

Tiered Definition of Done

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 8d ago First seen · 212 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 2fc575c74289

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verification-before-completion is a skill published in the GitHub repository krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso (21 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 2,879 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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