verify-when-complete

verify-when-complete is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paultyng/skill-issue. It costs 65 tokens per session (771 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification guide for checking code with the project’s formatter, linter, build system, and tests. It detects whether the project uses a Taskfile, Makefile, or direct Go commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before committing, pushing, opening a pull request, or reporting a fix as complete.
Why use it?
It prevents claiming that a change works without fresh evidence from the project’s actual checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paultyng/skill-issue/verify-when-complete
Any agent
npx skills add paultyng/skill-issue --skill verify-when-complete
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paultyng/skill-issue

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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agentmods badge for verify-when-complete

README.md
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 771 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00065 $0.00771
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00385
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00077

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9c8926175276, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify-when-complete 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 4d 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.

skills/verify-when-complete/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verify When Complete

No completion claims without fresh verification evidence.

This skill is the operational arm of ~/.claude/rules/probe-not-assume.md: claims of completion require fresh, probed evidence, not implementer self-report.

Core Principle

Evidence before claims, always. If you haven't run the verification command in this message, you cannot claim it passes.

Gate Rule

Before claiming any status or expressing satisfaction:

  1. Identify: What command proves this claim?
  2. Run: Execute the full command (fresh, complete)
  3. Read: Full output, check exit code, count failures
  4. Verify: Does output confirm the claim?
    • If NO: state actual status with evidence
    • If YES: state claim with evidence
  5. Only then: make the claim

Red Flags: Stop and Verify

  • Using "should", "probably", "seems to"
  • Expressing satisfaction before verification ("Great!", "Done!")
  • About to commit/push/PR without verification
  • Relying on a previous run, not a fresh one
  • Trusting subagent success reports without independent verification

Detected Toolchain

!if [ -f Taskfile.yaml ]; then echo "taskfile"; elif [ -f Makefile ]; then echo "makefile"; else echo "raw"; fi

Use the detected toolchain above to select commands from the tables below.

Verification Steps

Run each step in order. If any step fails, stop and report the error.

Format

Toolchain Command
Taskfile task fmt (if exists)
Makefile make fmt (if exists)
Raw Go go fmt ./...

Lint

Toolchain Command
Taskfile task lint (if exists)
Makefile make lint (if exists)
Raw Go go vet ./...

Build

Toolchain Command
Taskfile task build (if exists)
Makefile make build (if exists)
Raw Go go build ./...

Test

Toolchain Command
Taskfile task test (if exists)
Makefile make test (if exists)
Raw Go go test -race -count 1 -v ./...

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 4d ago First seen · 92 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 9c8926175276

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify-when-complete is a skill published in the GitHub repository paultyng/skill-issue (9 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 771 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.