verify-before-claim

verify-before-claim is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,206 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checking procedure for claims that an agent has finished work, produced a correct result, acted safely, published something, or deployed a change. It requires fresh evidence that directly tests the claim.

In plain words
What is it for?
Defining a test for a specific claim, assessing remaining risk, checking approval and rollback status, and deciding exactly what can be stated.
Why use it?
It prevents completion or safety statements from being based only on effort, indirect signs, or assumptions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Defining a test for a specific claim, assessing remaining risk, checking approval and rollback status, and deciding exactly what can be stated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills/verify-before-claim
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 Mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills --skill verify-before-claim
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,206 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00029 $0.01206
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00603
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00121

Measured 11d ago against content hash 117cf64386bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify-before-claim 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 11d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/verify-before-claim/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verify Before Claim

<skill_contract> One falsifiable claim, its artifact or system, risk, expected result, permissions, and available checks. A scoped claim decision with fresh evidence, residual risk, approval, and rollback status. The cheapest direct check after the final material change supports the exact allowed wording. <non_goals>Producing the artifact, inferring success from effort, or widening a claim beyond checked evidence.</non_goals>

No evidence, no claim. Match the check to the exact claim, use fresh evidence, and keep execution authority separate from approval authority for consequential actions.

Usage Template

Provide: proposed claim, artifact or system, risk level, available checks, expected result, permissions, and rollback path.

Workflow

  1. Rewrite the proposed statement as one falsifiable claim.
  2. Classify risk: low, material, or consequential.
  3. Select the cheapest check that directly tests the claim.
  4. Record expected signal, time boundary, and acceptable evidence.

<unknowns_gate>

If the artifact, expected behavior, or verification method is missing, return NEEDS_INPUT. If only indirect evidence exists, return INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE or narrow the claim; never fill the gap with confidence language.

</unknowns_gate>

Run the selected check after the final material change. Examples: targeted test, lint, build, link check, read-after-write, diff inspection, source comparison, dashboard query, or deployment health check. Capture command/query, timestamp, scope, exit status, and key output.

Treat runtime termination as control evidence, not task evidence. A normalized complete signal still needs the acceptance check; a tool request needs a host execution receipt; truncation needs a checkpoint; refusal/error/unknown cannot support completion. A claimed NO_OP needs a fresh eligibility query, an output-count check, and proof that no prohibited side effect occurred.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 11d ago First seen · 118 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 117cf64386bb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify-before-claim is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills (138 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,206 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 2026-08-30.

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