app-verification

app-verification is a skill for Claude Code from lukedj78/dev-flow. It costs 247 tokens per session (3,512 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project manual for proving that features work on the real running application. It records how to start and check the app, sign in, use its actual controls, collect evidence, and stop only processes started for the test.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a reusable verification guide for each project feature and its user-story checks.
Why use it?
Without written steps, each coding agent must guess how to launch and verify the app, which can mistake a page that merely loads for a working feature.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 dev-flow/scripts/update_meta.py <project-root> append-history --skill app-verification.

Part of the dev-flow plugin — 55 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a reusable verification guide for each project feature and its user-story checks.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lukedj78/dev-flow
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lukedj78/dev-flow/app-verification

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills.

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Per session 247 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,512 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 $0.00247 $0.03512
Opus 5.5 $0.00099 $0.01405
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00049 $0.00702
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00351

Measured 2d ago against content hash 89c047de9bb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/meta_io.py, scripts/render_probe.mjs, scripts/surfaces.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.

app-verification/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

app-verification — a manual to prove features on the real app

Every time an agent has to show that something works on the running app, it starts from nothing: how to start it, when it is really ready, which user to sign in as, where to look, how to stop without killing the user's own dev server. What it learns is gone at the end of the session, and the next agent guesses — and a guess is how a page that merely rendered becomes "verified".

This skill writes that knowledge down once, inside the project, as a skill Claude Code finds by itself: .claude/skills/verify-<app>/. The manual is for the next agent, read cold mid-task by someone who has never seen the app, not for a person.

The manual

.claude/skills/verify-<app>/
├── SKILL.md                 # Launch · Doctor · Drive · Evidence · Cleanup · Isolation
├── features/README.md       # baseline preconditions, driving conventions, proof rules, index
├── features/US-N-<slug>.md  # one per PRD story: Sub-features · How to get to it · Driving it with · Gotchas
└── scripts/                 # only if needed: executable, and named in SKILL.md

What each part holds, with filled examples: references/manual.md. How to drive each stack (web, Expo, eve, monorepo): references/stack-recipes.md.

create

  1. Interview the repo, not the user. What a user touches, how it starts (the repo's own scripts first), how it can be driven (an existing Playwright or Maestro setup before a generic recipe), what can be observed, whether two instances can run side by side. Ask the user only what the code cannot tell you.

  2. If the app does not start as it is, say so precisely — the missing env var, the database it cannot reach — before writing a line. A manual written over a broken base teaches wrong steps.

  3. Scaffold.

    python3 <skills>/app-verification/scripts/verify_map.py scaffold <project-root>
    

    One manual per surface the project has, found by surfaces.py, the one module that decides what a project is made of (canonical in dev-flow/scripts/, vendored here). It walks the root, the declared workspaces (pnpm-workspace.yaml, package.json#workspaces) and apps/* / packages/*:

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 2d ago Changed · +33 lines · +19 tokens per session 89c047de9bb2
  2. 3d ago First seen · 166 lines · 228 tokens per session scan A d560a8a628a9

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app-verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository lukedj78/dev-flow (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 247 tokens to every session and 3,512 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-10-19.