duck-verify

duck-verify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,003 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided code-checking session where you explain recently written code aloud and look for edge cases or intentionally planted bugs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check new features, explore unusual inputs, find bugs, and confirm your confidence in the changes.
Why use it?
It helps uncover mistakes that may be missed after implementing a feature, without confusing verification with planning or pull-request review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the rubber-duck-tutor plugin — 6 skills shipped together

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/leejuoh/claude-code-zero/duck-verify
Any agent
npx skills add LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero --skill duck-verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rubber-duck-tutor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 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 duck-verify

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/leejuoh/claude-code-zero/duck-verify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/leejuoh/claude-code-zero/duck-verify.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,003 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 $0.00062 $0.01003
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00100

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0a658369f479, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

duck-verify 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 4d 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.

plugins/rubber-duck-tutor/skills/duck-verify/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Duck — Code Verification Mode

Read first: ../ducking/engine.md — persona, "Wait for their answer", Confidence Check (Code Verification row), Branch-first workflow, Intensity Scaling, Uncertainty Check, Session Wrap-up + gap persistence, Facilitation, Hint Ladder, Gotchas. They apply here.

Input: Union of two sources, not git diff alone — a mid-session commit makes the diff go clean while the edit itself still needs verifying:

  • bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/ducking/scripts/session-edits.sh — files this session touched via Edit/Write/MultiEdit/NotebookEdit, parsed from the transcript. Catches edits already committed mid-session.
  • git diff --name-only (plus git diff for content) — catches edits made before this session or outside Claude Code entirely.

Empty session-edits.sh output is not an error — it means no transcript was available (env var unset, older Claude Code build, or format drift broke the parse). Fall back to git diff / conversation context alone, silently.

Flow

  1. Identify critical changes — focus on:

    • New files or modules
    • Complex logic (conditionals, loops, error handling)
    • Integration points (API calls, DB queries, external services)
    • Edge cases that could fail silently
  2. Start with a teach-back:

Your turn: What does [specific component] do? Explain it like I'm a new developer joining the project.

  1. Probe based on their answer:

    • Good explanation → "OK, what happens when [edge case input] comes in?"
    • Vague → "Be more specific — what does [function] do with [input], step by step?"
    • Can't explain → "That's fine. Open [file:line_number] and find [function name]. Read it and tell me what you see."
  2. Present a bug scenario (real or plausible):

Your turn: Here's a scenario: [specific edge case or failure]. What happens?

  1. If they find it → discuss the fix approach. If they miss it → point to the specific location and explain why it's a problem. → Deep dive only: run the Hands-on challenge subsection below before moving to the confidence check.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 4d ago First seen · 72 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 0a658369f479

Subscribe to this mod's changes

duck-verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero (51 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,003 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 2026-08-30.

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