synthesis-implementation-integrity

synthesis-implementation-integrity is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills. It costs 94 tokens per session (5,788 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A checklist for verifying that a software implementation is genuinely complete after coding. It traces changes through the system and checks whether the real environment matches what tests cover.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after substantial implementation work or changes that pass through several layers, such as adding a field, column, or property.
Why use it?
Passing tests can miss problems involving persistent data, external services, cached files, or deployment settings. This review looks for incomplete work, shortcuts, and tests that give false confidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the synthesis-skills plugin — 63 skills, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after substantial implementation work or changes that pass through several layers, such as adding a field, column, or property.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-implementation-integrity
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 synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills --skill synthesis-implementation-integrity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install synthesis-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 63 skills, 4 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 synthesis-implementation-integrity

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-implementation-integrity"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-implementation-integrity.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,788 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00094 $0.05788
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.02894
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00579

Measured 8d ago against content hash 132236e4f4d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

synthesis-implementation-integrity 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/acceptance_suite.py, scripts/test_acceptance_suite.py, scripts/test_r5_contract.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/synthesis-implementation-integrity/SKILL.md · 446 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 446 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Synthesis Implementation Integrity

The most dangerous moment in software development is when you believe you're done. That belief shuts down scrutiny exactly when scrutiny matters most.

This skill is an adversarial self-review protocol. It challenges you — human or AI agent — to systematically prove your implementation is complete rather than assuming it is. The discipline: look for evidence that the work is WRONG, not confirmation that it's right. Confirmation bias is the default mode; this protocol overrides it.

"Tests pass" is not proof of correctness. Tests create their own world — fresh databases, mocked dependencies, controlled inputs. Production is a different world with persistent state, real external services, cached assets, and environment configurations that no test suite reproduces. The gap between "tests pass" and "production works" is where the worst failures live, because everyone has stopped looking.

This protocol exists to keep looking.


When to Invoke

Run this protocol:

  • After completing any non-trivial implementation — before declaring it done
  • After adding a field, column, or property that flows through multiple system layers
  • After implementing the same pattern across multiple components — the last one gets the least attention
  • After all tests pass on a schema, config, or deployment change — for these change types, "all tests pass" should trigger deeper scrutiny, not signal that verification is over
  • When someone (human or AI) says "it's done" — use this to give an evidence-based answer

Skip for trivial changes (typo fixes, comment updates, single-line config edits).


Where This Fits — Verification Chain

Five complementary skills cover verification at different scopes and lifecycle phases:

Skill Scope Cadence Core question
synthesis-implementation-integrity (this one) A single change After every non-trivial implementation "Is this change genuinely complete?"
synthesis-code-audit A diff (changed code) After implementation, before or during review "Does this diff meet quality standards?"
synthesis-preflight A branch Before creating a PR "Is this branch ready to merge?"
synthesis-pr-review A change proposed for merge Every pull request "Should this change enter the codebase?"
synthesis-codebase-review The entire system Periodic or at milestones "Is this system healthy?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 446 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 8d ago First seen · 446 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 132236e4f4d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

synthesis-implementation-integrity is a skill published in the GitHub repository synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills (18 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 5,788 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.