understand-propose-implement-verify

understand-propose-implement-verify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pekral/cursor-rules. It costs 26 tokens per session (459 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Use when following a strict problem-solving loop: understand, propose, implement, verify.

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/pekral/cursor-rules/understand-propose-implement-verify
Any agent
npx skills add pekral/cursor-rules --skill understand-propose-implement-verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pekral/cursor-rules

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 459 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00026 $0.00459
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured today against content hash 74b3d95fb4d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

understand-propose-implement-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 today.

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/understand-propose-implement-verify/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Constraints

  • Apply @rules/php/core-standards.mdc only once it is established that the project is a PHP project (PHP stack in composer.json) and the change touches PHP code — skip it for non-PHP work (docs, tooling, infra, config); do not load the PHP standards for a task that does not touch PHP.
  • If the current project uses Laravel, also apply @rules/laravel/laravel.mdc, @rules/laravel/architecture.mdc, @rules/laravel/filament.mdc, and @rules/laravel/livewire.mdc (likewise only when the change touches PHP)
  • Always follow this order: understand → propose → implement → verify
  • Prefer existing project skills over custom solutions; do not duplicate logic already covered by a skill

Use when

  • Solving a task that requires structured thinking and controlled execution
  • Coordinating multiple steps or skills

Execution

1. Understand

  • Analyze the problem, context, and related resources
  • Classify the task (bug, feature, refactor, review, etc.)
  • Define a short checklist of goals, constraints, and assumptions

2. Propose

  • Suggest the smallest safe solution
  • Explain why this approach is preferred (impact, risk, trade-offs)
  • Select relevant existing skills to execute the plan

3. Implement

  • Execute the solution using selected skills where applicable
  • Keep changes focused and aligned with project conventions
  • Add or update tests for changed behavior

4. Verify

  • Validate the result against requirements
  • Run relevant checks/tests for the affected scope
  • Ensure no regressions or unintended side effects
  • Summarize what was changed, tested, and any remaining risks

Done when

  • The task is fully addressed
  • The solution follows the defined loop
  • Existing skills were reused where applicable
  • Results are validated and clearly summarized
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. today First seen · 47 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 74b3d95fb4d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

understand-propose-implement-verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository pekral/cursor-rules (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 459 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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