maintain-verification-skill

maintain-verification-skill is a skill for Codex from minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,020 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of maintain-verification-skill, MIT.

A maintenance workflow for a project's verification skill and feature map. A verification skill is a scripted way to exercise an app and check that it behaves as documented.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing each feature against the source code and a live app, then shipping only proven corrections in at most one pull request.
Why use it?
It finds documentation and test coverage that have become outdated as the project changes.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit It is for reviewing each feature against the source code and a…

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

Made for: Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,020 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00057 $0.01020
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00510
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00102

Measured 3d ago against content hash c67679000487, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maintain-verification-skill 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 3d 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

This is a copy

91% identical to maintain-verification-skill — 13 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Maintain a verification skill

A feature map rots the moment the app changes. This skill is the upkeep loop for a skill generated by $create-verification-skill (or any project-local verification skill with a feature map). The unit of rigor is the feature, not every sentence: cover every feature file from source and exercise every feature live, without terminalising every bullet.

Outcomes

Pick one, and say which:

  • clean — every feature got source and live coverage; nothing worth shipping. No branch, no PR.
  • changed — one PR ships proven doc, harness, or map corrections.
  • blocked — coverage could not finish or a proven fix could not ship safely. Say exactly what blocked it.

Edit scope

Only edit the verification skill's own directory (its SKILL.md, features/, and any harness scripts it owns). Never edit product code during a run: a behavior the map describes that the app no longer does is either doc drift (fix the map) or a product regression (report it, don't paper over it in docs).

Pass

  1. Locate the target. Find the verification skill to maintain: the project-local skill whose body has launch/drive sections and a feature map (usually .agents/skills/verify-*/). Several candidates → ask which one; none → stop and point at $create-verification-skill instead of inventing a target.

  2. Index hygiene. Read the feature map README and glob its sibling files. Fix missing, extra, duplicate, or dead entries. Lightweight; no generated inventory.

  3. Source wave. One read-only subagent per feature file, launched concurrently. Each explains "how does this user-facing feature work?" from source, flags likely doc drift with citations, and returns one concise live-verification recipe. Children never drive the app and never edit files. Return shape: feature summary / source entry points / likely drift or none / one recipe.

  4. Reconcile. Every feature file has a returned summary. Merge overlapping recipes into as few app states as practical. Spot-check cited drift; don't re-prove clean claims. Sweep recent churn for user-facing surfaces missing from the map — require a concrete source path before calling one missing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 39 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A c67679000487

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maintain-verification-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards (39 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,020 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to maintain-verification-skill, differing in 13 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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