verify

A procedure that requires fresh command output before claiming that work is complete, fixed, or passing. It matches each claim with a verification command and checks the full result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before reporting completion, passing tests, successful builds, commits, pull requests, or other completed work. It defines what evidence is needed for each type of claim.
Why use it?
It prevents unsupported success claims based on assumptions or old test results, especially after code has changed.

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/shousper/claude-kit/verify
Any agent
npx skills add shousper/claude-kit --skill verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shousper/claude-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,074 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 $0.00088 $0.01074
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00537
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00107

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5f9910a0f95f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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.

shared/skills/verify/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Before Completion

Overview

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

Core principle: Evidence before claims, always.

Hard Gate: No Claims Without Fresh Evidence

If you haven't run the verification command in this message, you cannot claim it passes. Stale results from previous runs don't count — code may have changed since then, and re-running is cheap compared to shipping a false claim.

The Verification Steps

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. Then claim: Only after steps 1-4

Skipping steps means the claim is unsupported. Unsupported claims erode trust — your human partner can't distinguish "I checked and it passes" from "I assume it passes" unless you show evidence.

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, logs look good
Bug fixed Test original symptom: passes Code changed, assumed fixed
Regression test works Red-green cycle verified Test passes once
Agent completed VCS diff shows changes Agent reports "success"
Requirements met Line-by-line checklist Tests passing

Recognizing Unverified Claims

Watch for these patterns in your own output — they indicate you're about to make a claim without evidence:

  • Using "should", "probably", "seems to"
  • Expressing satisfaction before verification ("Great!", "Perfect!", "Done!")
  • About to commit/push/PR without running checks
  • Trusting agent success reports without independent verification
  • Relying on partial verification (linter passed, so build must be fine)
  • Any wording implying success without having run the command

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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. 3d ago First seen · 123 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 5f9910a0f95f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository shousper/claude-kit (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,074 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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