verification-gate

verification-gate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LearnPrompt/cc-harness-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (253 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only challenge pass performed after implementation to check whether completion claims, tests, edge cases, and regression checks are supported by evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after coding to review validation results, look for missed problems, and report findings as verified, unverified, or failed.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish work that is actually verified from work that only appears finished.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it after coding to review validation results, look for missed problems, and report findings as verified, unverified, or failed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/learnprompt/cc-harness-skills/verification-gate
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 LearnPrompt/cc-harness-skills --skill verification-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LearnPrompt/cc-harness-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.

agentmods badge for verification-gate

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/learnprompt/cc-harness-skills/verification-gate/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/learnprompt/cc-harness-skills/verification-gate)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/learnprompt/cc-harness-skills/verification-gate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/learnprompt/cc-harness-skills/verification-gate/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for verification-gate

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/learnprompt/cc-harness-skills/verification-gate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/learnprompt/cc-harness-skills/verification-gate.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 253 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00034 $0.00253
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00127
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00025

Measured 10d ago against content hash c98841befcb4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-gate 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verification_context.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-gate/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Verification Gate

Use this skill when the implementation should not be accepted without a separate challenge pass.

Use It For

  • post-implementation verification
  • checking whether claimed tests really ran
  • finding edge cases before reporting completion
  • converting "looks done" into "verified" or "unverified"

Quick Start

Collect a verification context from a git repo:

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/verification_context.py --repo /path/to/repo

Then run the portable verifier prompt from references/prompt-template.md.

Verifier Rules

  • default to read-only
  • findings first
  • never imply validation ran if it did not
  • distinguish verified, unverified, and failed

Supporting Files

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. 10d ago First seen · 39 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A c98841befcb4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository LearnPrompt/cc-harness-skills (233 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 253 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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