verification-methodology

verification-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magnus919/agent-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for checking work against stated pass-or-fail requirements using direct, repeatable evidence. It separates confirmed facts from assumptions and marks missing access or evidence as blocked rather than passing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before completion claims to define criteria, gather commands or source references, assess each condition, and report passed, failed, blocked, or irrelevant results.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of declaring an implementation, artifact, or claim complete without proving each requirement.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it before completion claims to define criteria, gather commands or source references, assess each condition, and report passed, failed, blocked, or irrelevant results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnus919/agent-skills/verification-methodology
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 magnus919/agent-skills --skill verification-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin verification-methodology/plugin install verification-methodology after adding the marketplace above.

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-methodology

README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,737 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 20
    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 $0.00051 $0.01737
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00869
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00174

Measured 7d ago against content hash 055f71939884, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-methodology scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| 10 | **Links resolve** — each distinct URL appears once at first meaningful mention; all return 200 | `curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}"` each URL. Verify link text is at first meaningful mention. |
verification-methodology/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Methodology

Pass/fail assessment against pre-defined criteria.

The Verification Protocol

  1. Receive — restate the artifact, claim, or implementation being verified and the decision it will support.
  2. Assess criteria — convert requirements into observable pass/fail conditions; identify what would disprove each claim.
  3. Investigate — collect direct, reproducible evidence from the source named by the request and record commands, source locations, or source URLs. Own this collection when the source is accessible: do not ask the user to relay evidence you can retrieve yourself. Ask only for access you genuinely lack.
  4. Decide — mark each criterion passed, failed, blocked, or not applicable. Do not convert missing evidence into a pass.
  5. Report — use the verdict template to distinguish verified facts, assumptions, and remaining work.

Stop when every criterion has direct evidence or an explicit blocked/not-applicable verdict. Escalate when the criterion is ambiguous, evidence conflicts, or the required access is unavailable.

Source Fidelity

Treat the requested or configured local service as part of the verification criterion, not as an interchangeable topic label.

  1. Load the matching skill and use its documented executable or service path before adjacent integrations, generic web search, or public project sources.
  2. Use the path resolved by the skill itself. A missing global PATH entry does not prove that a bundled executable is unavailable.
  3. If the direct source fails, report the attempted command or endpoint and its exact failure. Do not silently substitute evidence from another source.
  4. Use a substitute only when the user requests broader context or explicitly accepts the fallback. Label substitute evidence as secondary and do not present it as the requested source's state.

Example: for “What’s new on Jellyfin?” in an environment with a configured Jellyfin skill and bundled CLI, query that server through the bundled CLI first. Home Assistant entities and public Jellyfin project activity answer different questions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 7d ago First seen · 104 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 055f71939884

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (76 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,737 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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