ctx-verify

ctx-verify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stevesolun/ctx. It costs 62 tokens per session (545 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A validation guide for changes in the ctx repository, choosing checks based on the risk and size of the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Testing code, workflows, migrations, documentation, packaging, security changes, releases, and Windows-sensitive work before delivery.
Why use it?
It helps catch mistakes before handoff while avoiding checks that are too small or too large for the change.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 ctx-verify

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 545 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 $0.00062 $0.00545
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00272
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00055

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4bfa8aa064b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ctx-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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/ctx-verify/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verify ctx changes

  1. Inspect the requested behavior and changed surface. Read only the relevant section of CONTRIBUTING.md before selecting checks.
  2. Run the smallest focused tests or deterministic checks that exercise the changed behavior first.
  3. Escalate evidence in proportion to risk:
    • Small, localized change: focused tests, schemas, or diff checks.
    • Material repository change: scripts/no_mistakes_run.sh fast.
    • PR-level, contract, workflow, migration, packaging, security, or release change: run the fast gate, then python scripts/ci_preflight.py --profile pr.
    • Documentation navigation or linked public-asset change: follow the tracker contract in CONTRIBUTING.md; do not require tracker changes for ordinary prose-only edits.
    • Windows-sensitive change: follow the native-CI contract in CONTRIBUTING.md; local checks do not replace required Windows evidence.
  4. Treat the fast gate as committed-history evidence. When the working tree is dirty, pair it with focused checks against the actual uncommitted changes.
  5. If a gate cannot find its trusted pytest, Ruff, and mypy environment, report the environment failure. Do not silently install dependencies or weaken the trust check.
  6. Use an independent validator only when semantic risk remains after deterministic checks, especially for material security, migration, or release work.
  7. Report each check, its result, and any omitted or unavailable evidence.

Rubric

Mark each applicable criterion pass, fail, or not verified:

  • Intent: The artifact satisfies the request without unrelated scope.
  • Behavior: Fresh evidence covers the changed success path and relevant failure or regression paths.
  • Static integrity: Applicable lint, formatting, and type checks pass.
  • Repository contracts: Migration, changed-file, documentation, packaging, and platform requirements remain satisfied where relevant.
  • Evidence quality: Results apply to the actual changed surface and are not stale or inapplicable.
  • Handoff: Skipped checks and residual risks are stated plainly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 4d ago First seen · 49 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 4bfa8aa064b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ctx-verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository stevesolun/ctx (583 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 545 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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