verification-before-completion

A workflow rule that requires fresh verification before declaring coding work complete, fixed, or passing. Verification means running the command that proves the claim and reading its full output and exit status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing changes, checking regressions, committing work, opening pull requests, or handing off completed tasks.
Why use it?
It prevents guesses or earlier test results from being presented as proof. Failed checks must be reported as failures rather than described as successful.

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/skywalkercyt/mp-implement/verification-before-completion
Any agent
npx skills add skywalkercyt/mp-implement --skill verification-before-completion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skywalkercyt/mp-implement

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 383 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 $0.00042 $0.00383
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00192
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured 2d ago against content hash e409549c59a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-before-completion 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 2d 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/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Verification Before Completion

Adapted skill — discipline originating in Superpowers v5.1.0 (MIT, Jesse Vincent), rewritten in mattpocock-skills style. The honesty gate in /mp-implement-issue step 7 and both pipelines' harvest — no slice counts as done until it passes.

Iron law: no completion or success claim without fresh verification evidence produced in this step. A claim made before its verification is a guess dressed as a fact.

The gate

For each claim you are about to make:

  1. Name the command that proves it.
  2. Run that command in full — fresh, in this step.
  3. Read the complete output and the exit code.
  4. If the output confirms the claim, make the claim and quote the evidence ("34/34 pass", "exit 0"). If it contradicts the claim, state the actual status with the evidence instead.

Evidence means output from the run you just did. "Should pass", an earlier run, a partial check, a linter where tests are owed, or another agent's self-report are not evidence — a sub-agent's "success" is a lead to verify (check the diff), not a result.

Regression tests

A regression test proves red-green: revert the fix and watch the test fail, restore the fix and watch it pass. A test that never failed proves nothing about the fix.

Requirements

"Tests pass" is not "requirements met". Close out by re-reading the source checklist (issue, spec, plan) and verifying each requirement line by line; report any gap as its actual status.

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. 2d ago First seen · 30 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A e409549c59a8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-before-completion is a skill published in the GitHub repository skywalkercyt/mp-implement (2 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 383 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 2026-08-31.

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