verify

verify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from marchatton/agent-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,124 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification guide for checking that software changes work before declaring them complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after changes to behavior, tests, types, builds, packaging, continuous integration, or user interfaces.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork about which tests, type checks, lint checks, builds, or interface checks to run, and reports when verification cannot be completed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it after changes to behavior, tests, types, builds, packaging, continuous integration, or user interfaces.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 verify

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/marchatton/agent-skills/verify/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/marchatton/agent-skills/verify)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for verify

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/marchatton/agent-skills/verify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/marchatton/agent-skills/verify.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,124 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 $0.00024 $0.01124
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00562
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00112

Measured 7d ago against content hash 62fda1221349, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

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.

.agents/skills/04-develop/verify/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verify

Purpose

Provide a single, consistent way for agents to verify changes before claiming “done”.

Canonical rule

Verification is skill-only.

  • Do not rely on a global verify command.
  • Do not require other docs to define verification logic. This skill is self-contained.

When to run

Run verification for every change that alters behaviour, build outputs, tests, types, linting, packaging, CI, or UI. If you cannot verify, return NO-GO with a concrete reason and the smallest unblock request.

Procedure

0) Pick scope (don’t waste time)

  • Prefer the smallest scope that covers what changed:
    • single package/app if changes are local
    • repo-wide only if shared libraries, configs, or multiple packages changed
  • If unsure, start scoped, then widen if failures suggest shared impact.

1) Discover the available verification scripts (don’t guess)

  1. Identify the relevant package.json:
  • repo root for repo-wide checks
  • the changed package/app directory for scoped checks
  1. List scripts from the relevant package.json:
  • Look for canonical script names first:
    • verify
    • test, test:unit, test:ci
    • lint
    • typecheck, tsc
    • build
    • format, fmt, prettier:check
    • check (sometimes bundles lint/typecheck/test)
  1. If none exist, search one level up/down for where scripts live (monorepo layouts vary). If you still cannot find scripts, return NO-GO and ask for expected verification steps or for a verify script to be added.

2) Run verification in this order (stop on red)

Run the best available equivalents in this order:

  1. Format / basic hygiene (only if a check script exists)
  • Prefer format:check / prettier:check / fmt:check
  • Do not run auto-format as “verification” unless explicitly requested
  1. Lint
  • Run the repo/package lint script
  1. Typecheck
  • Run typecheck / tsc / equivalent
  1. Tests
  • Run the smallest relevant test suite:
    • test / test:unit for code changes
    • include integration/e2e only when the repo provides it and it’s relevant

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 7d ago First seen · 119 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 62fda1221349

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository marchatton/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,124 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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