verify-before-done

verify-before-done is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from makifbaysal/tasktrooper. It costs 36 tokens per session (757 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A checklist for proving that a coding task is complete before making claims about it. It requires running the relevant command in the current work session and reading its full result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before marking acceptance criteria complete, ending an implementation run, or reporting that a change passes.
Why use it?
It prevents relying on old runs, assumptions, or partial output when saying that code works, builds, passes checks, or fixes a bug.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it before marking acceptance criteria complete, ending an implementation run, or reporting that a change passes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/makifbaysal/tasktrooper/verify-before-done
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 makifbaysal/tasktrooper --skill verify-before-done
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/makifbaysal/tasktrooper

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 757 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.
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 $0.00036 $0.00757
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00303
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00076

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8bc765d50127, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify-before-done 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 8d 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.

| Endpoint works (backend) | `curl` against the running service: status code and body | Code review of the handler |
catalog/agents/backend-developer/skills/verify-before-done/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Before Completion

Overview

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

Core principle: Evidence before claims, always.

The Iron Law

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

If you haven't run the verification command in THIS run, you cannot claim it passes. A previous run, "should pass", or "looks correct" is not evidence.

The Gate Function

Before claiming any status or moving any task forward:

  1. IDENTIFY — what command proves this claim?
  2. RUN — execute the full command, fresh and complete.
  3. READ — the full output: exit code, failure count, warnings.
  4. VERIFY — does the output actually confirm the claim? If no: state the real status with evidence.
  5. ONLY THEN — make the claim, with the evidence.

Skipping any step is lying, not verifying.

What Each Claim Requires

Claim Requires Not sufficient
Checks pass The component's list_component_checks commands, run in this run, exit 0 — the hand-off gate runs exactly these A different command you picked yourself
Build succeeds Build command: exit 0 Linter passing, logs look fine
Bug fixed Re-run the original symptom: passes Code changed, assumed fixed
Regression test guards the fix Revert the fix, run the test (MUST FAIL), restore, run again (passes) The test passing once, with the fix already in place
Endpoint works (backend) curl against the running service: status code and body Code review of the handler
Screen works (frontend) browser_read_dom with contains: for the element, plus screenshots at the four widths A build that compiled
Screen works (mobile) mobile_screenshot / mobile_read_ui, or the Flutter web-render fallback when no device is attached "The widget should render"
AC met Line-by-line check of every acceptance criterion against what you just verified Tests passing

Tests passing is NOT the same as requirements met — re-read every acceptance criterion and confirm each one is actually satisfied.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 8d ago First seen · 73 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 8bc765d50127

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify-before-done is a skill published in the GitHub repository makifbaysal/tasktrooper (113 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 757 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-05.

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