verify

verify is a skill for Claude Code from Pharaoh-so/pharaoh-mcp. It costs 59 tokens per session (620 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification workflow that requires running the relevant command and reading its result before saying work is complete, fixed, or passing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps confirm tests, builds, linting, delegated work, and requirement checklists before committing or reporting success.
Why use it?
It prevents unsupported claims based on guesses, old results, or partial checks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the pharaoh plugin — 8 skills, 2 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It helps confirm tests, builds, linting, delegated work, and requirement checklists before committing or reporting success.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pharaoh-so/pharaoh-mcp/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 Pharaoh-so/pharaoh-mcp --skill verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pharaoh-so/pharaoh-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pharaoh, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 2 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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.

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README.md
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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.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 620 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 $0.00059 $0.00620
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00248
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00062

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6c6b9051013b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 9d 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/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Before Completion

Claiming work is complete without verification is dishonesty, not efficiency.

Evidence before claims, always.

When to Use

Before ANY claim of success, completion, or correctness. Before committing, creating PRs, moving to next task, or delegating to agents. Applies to every positive statement about work state.

The Iron Law

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

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

The Gate

  1. IDENTIFY: what command proves this claim?
  2. RUN: execute the full command (fresh, in this message)
  3. READ: full output — check exit code, count failures
  4. VERIFY: does output confirm the claim?
  5. ONLY THEN: make the claim

Skip any step and the claim is unverified.

What Counts as Evidence

Claim Requires NOT sufficient
Tests pass Test command output: 0 failures Previous run, "should pass"
Linter clean Linter output: 0 errors Partial check, extrapolation
Build succeeds Build command: exit 0 Linter passing
Bug fixed Reproduce original symptom: gone Code changed, assumed fixed
Agent completed Diff shows correct changes Agent reports "success"
Requirements met Line-by-line checklist verified Tests passing

If Pharaoh tools are available, use get_blast_radius on changed functions to confirm every caller is accounted for.

Red Flags — Stop

  • Using "should", "probably", "seems to"
  • Expressing satisfaction before running verification
  • About to commit without fresh test/build/lint output
  • Trusting agent success reports without checking
  • "Just this once" thinking
  • Relying on partial verification

Rationalization Prevention

Excuse Reality
"Should work now" Run the command.
"I'm confident" Confidence is not evidence.
"Linter passed" Linter is not the compiler.
"Agent said success" Verify independently.
"Partial check is enough" Partial proves nothing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 9d ago First seen · 74 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 6c6b9051013b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pharaoh-so/pharaoh-mcp (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 620 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-21.

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