shipyard-verification

shipyard-verification is a skill for Claude Code from lgbarn/shipyard. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,296 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification checklist for confirming that code changes really work before calling them complete, committing them, or opening a pull request.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps check fixes, passing tests, completed tasks, commits, pull requests, and merges.
Why use it?
It prevents completion claims based on assumptions instead of fresh test or command results.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the shipyard plugin — 25 skills, 25 commands, 20 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps check fixes, passing tests, completed tasks, commits, pull requests, and merges.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lgbarn/shipyard/shipyard-verification
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 lgbarn/shipyard --skill shipyard-verification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lgbarn/shipyard

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shipyard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 25 commands, 20 agents, 6 hooks.

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 shipyard-verification

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,296 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 6
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 25
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 87
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00079 $0.01296
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00648
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00130

Measured 4d ago against content hash 85784d9de0f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipyard-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 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/shipyard/skills/shipyard-verification/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Before Completion

Activation Triggers

  • About to claim work is "done", "complete", "fixed", or "passing"
  • About to commit, create a PR, or merge
  • Before any success assertion -- must have fresh evidence first
  • Using words like "should", "probably", "seems to" about work state

Natural Language Triggers

  • "is this done", "verify this", "check my work", "are we done", "does this work"

Overview

Claiming work is complete without verification is dishonesty, not efficiency.

Core principle: Evidence before claims, always.

Violating the letter of this rule is violating the spirit of this rule.

The Iron Law

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

If you haven't run the verification command in this message, you cannot claim it passes.

The Gate Function

BEFORE claiming any status or expressing satisfaction:

1. IDENTIFY: What command proves this claim?
2. RUN: Execute the FULL command (fresh, complete)
3. READ: Full output, check exit code, count failures
4. VERIFY: Does output confirm the claim?
   - If NO: State actual status with evidence
   - If YES: State claim WITH evidence
5. ONLY THEN: Make the claim

Skip any step = lying, not verifying

Common Failures

Claim Requires Not Sufficient
Tests pass Test command output: 0 failures Previous run, "should pass"
Linter clean Linter output: 0 errors Partial check, extrapolation
Build succeeds Build command: exit 0 Linter passing, logs look good
Bug fixed Test original symptom: passes Code changed, assumed fixed
Regression test works Red-green cycle verified Test passes once
Agent completed VCS diff shows changes Agent reports "success"
Requirements met Line-by-line checklist Tests passing

Teammate Mode

When SHIPYARD_IS_TEAMMATE=true:

  • Run verification locally and report results via task metadata (not STATE.json updates)
  • Do not update STATE.json — only the lead agent writes project state
  • TaskCompleted hook enforces evidence — the hook checks for verification artifacts before allowing task completion

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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 · 183 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 85784d9de0f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shipyard-verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository lgbarn/shipyard (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,296 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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