verification-before-completion

verification-before-completion is a skill for Claude Code from SummerEngine/summer-engine-agent. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,046 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of verification-before-completion, MIT.

A required verification step before claiming that software work is complete, fixed, or passing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose and run the command that proves a build, test, lint check, or bug fix actually works.
Why use it?
It prevents success claims based only on assumptions, old results, or incomplete checks.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the summer plugin — 80 skills, 2 commands, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose and run the command that proves a build, test, lint check, or bug fix actually works.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/summerengine/summer-engine-agent/verification-before-completion
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 SummerEngine/summer-engine-agent --skill verification-before-completion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SummerEngine/summer-engine-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install summer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills, 2 commands, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,046 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 81% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00043 $0.01046
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00523
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00105

Measured 4d ago against content hash 730c9391c76a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to verification-before-completion — 21 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/workflow/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 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.

Violating the letter of this rule is violating the spirit of this rule.

The Iron Law

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

If you haven't run the verification command in this message, you cannot claim it passes.

The Gate Function

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. ONLY THEN: Make the claim

Skip any step = lying, not verifying

Common Failures

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
Gameplay behaviour works RunVerification probe: pressed the input, read the state back Script compiles, game boots, diagnostics clean
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

Red Flags - STOP

  • Using "should", "probably", "seems to"
  • Expressing satisfaction before verification ("Great!", "Perfect!", "Done!", etc.)
  • About to commit/push/PR without verification
  • Trusting agent success reports
  • Relying on partial verification
  • Thinking "just this once"
  • Tired and wanting work over
  • ANY wording implying success without having run verification

Rationalization Prevention

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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 · 142 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 730c9391c76a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-before-completion is a skill published in the GitHub repository SummerEngine/summer-engine-agent (57 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,046 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to verification-before-completion, differing in 21 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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