verification-gates

verification-gates is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (4,777 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A final checking skill that runs a set of quality gates after other skills have finished. It checks whether the completed answer meets defined standards and includes tests intended to make the checks harder to game.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run the project's V1–V6 verification checks and assess the quality of an orchestrated result.
Why use it?
It provides one final review step before an answer is accepted or delivered.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to run the project's V1–V6 verification checks and assess the quality of an orchestrated result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills/ds-verification-gates
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 Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills --skill ds-verification-gates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,777 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 $0.00046 $0.04777
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01911
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00955
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00478

Measured 14d ago against content hash 8d8e8fc61c22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-gates 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 14d 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/ds-verification-gates/SKILL.md · 543 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 543 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VERIFICATION-GATES — Depth Verification Engine (Premium)

Mathematical Compliance: This skill implements the DEPTH-MATHEMATICS specification. It computes and outputs the final ADS, CEI, SI, EC, OV, and Depth . It runs all V1-V6 gates plus ungameable components. It is the final quality gate — no answer ships without passing.

Research Basis:

  • Yao et al. (2023) "Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models" (arXiv:2305.10601) — deliberate decision making with self-evaluation
  • Liu et al. (2023) "Examining LLMs' Uncertainty Expression Towards Questions Outside Parametric Knowledge" (arXiv:2311.09731) — UnknownBench for calibration
  • Shinn et al. (2023) "Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning" (arXiv:2303.11366) — self-correction with feedback

Every skill claims to verify something. DEEP-THINK verifies assumptions. ADVERSARY verifies opposition. PROVENANCE verifies evidence. But who verifies the verifiers?

This skill centralizes all verification. It runs after the full orchestration. It checks every gate with machine-checkable criteria. It runs ungameable components (human eval, held-out tasks, ensemble critic). It red-teams the gates themselves to detect gaming. It produces the **Depth ** — the single verifiable artifact of depth quality.


The Failure Mode You Must Recognize

You are about to deliver an answer that:

  • Passed all skill-internal gates (but those gates were self-graded)
  • Has beautiful cognitive traces (but they might be cargo cult)
  • Claims high ADS (but the phase activations were self-reported)
  • Has a Depth (but it wasn't independently verified)

This is verification theater — the appearance of rigor without the substance. Skills grade their own homework. Gates are checked by the same model that wants to pass them.

This skill breaks the cycle. It is the independent auditor. It re-runs gates with strict criteria. It runs ungameable components. It red-teams the verification itself. If it doesn't pass, the answer doesn't ship.

Read the full file on GitHub · 543 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. 14d ago First seen · 543 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 8d8e8fc61c22

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verification-gates is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 4,777 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-03.