chain-of-verification

chain-of-verification is a skill for Claude Code from serpro69/claude-toolbox. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,357 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A self-checking question method for improving answers to complex or technical requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a response needs fact-checking, technical accuracy, or several reasoning steps.
Why use it?
It helps the agent check its own claims and reduce factual or reasoning errors.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the kk plugin — 14 skills, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when a response needs fact-checking, technical accuracy, or several reasoning steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/serpro69/claude-toolbox/chain-of-verification
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 serpro69/claude-toolbox --skill chain-of-verification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/serpro69/claude-toolbox

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for chain-of-verification

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/serpro69/claude-toolbox/chain-of-verification/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/serpro69/claude-toolbox/chain-of-verification)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/serpro69/claude-toolbox/chain-of-verification"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/serpro69/claude-toolbox/chain-of-verification/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for chain-of-verification

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/serpro69/claude-toolbox/chain-of-verification"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/serpro69/claude-toolbox/chain-of-verification.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,357 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 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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.01357
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00678
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00136

Measured 11d ago against content hash d88e796d4776, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chain-of-verification 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 11d 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.

klaude-plugin/skills/chain-of-verification/SKILL.md · 144 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 144 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A d88e796d4776

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chain-of-verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository serpro69/claude-toolbox (149 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,357 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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