measuring-ai-proficiency: Skill for Claude Code

Verify Gate

Machine verification gate between implementation and quality review. Runs the project's compile, test, and lint commands. If any fail, enters a fix loop. If all pass, unblocks simplify-and-harden.

This is the inner loop's verify step. Without it, the agent hands off code with zero machine signal about whether it actually works.

When to Use

• After any implementation work completes, before signaling "done"
• Before running simplify-and-harden
• After fixing audit findings from agent-teams-simplify-and-harden
• Any time you want a machine-verified green signal

Pipeline Position

[implementation] → verify-gate → simplify-and-harden → self-improvement
                   ↻ fix loop

Step 1: Discover Project Commands

Read the project's configuration to find verification commands. Check these sources in order:

1. Project instruction files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md) — look for a ## Verification or ## Test Commands section
2. package.json — scripts.test, scripts.lint, scripts.typecheck, scripts.build. Also check for a bun.lock / bun.lockb alongside it → prefer bun run <script> over npm run <script> when present. Check for pnpm-lock.yaml → prefer pnpm run. Check for yarn.lock → prefer yarn.
3. Makefile / Justfile — test, lint, check, build targets
4. Cargo.toml — cargo build, cargo test, cargo clippy
5. pyproject.toml / setup.cfg — pytest, mypy, ruff
6. go.mod — go build ./..., go test ./..., go vet ./...
7. deno.json / deno.jsonc — deno task <name> for any defined tasks

If no commands are discoverable, ask the user once and suggest they add a ## Verification section to their project instruction files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or equivalent) for future sessions:

## Verification

- Build: `npm run build`
- Test: `npm test`
- Lint: `npm run lint`
- Type check: `npx tsc --noEmit`

Step 2: Run Verification