verification-before-completion

verification-before-completion is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wazimmerman/zimster. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,611 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for checking work before claiming that it is finished. It requires identifying the relevant requirement, running the project’s accepted verification command, and reviewing its complete result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before saying code is done, fixed, passing, ready, or safe, especially when tests, builds, checks, or delegated work are involved.
Why use it?
It prevents completion claims based only on assumptions, partial output, or someone else’s report. It connects each claim to fresh evidence from the final project state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the zimster plugin — 12 skills, 1 command, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before saying code is done, fixed, passing, ready, or safe, especially when tests, builds, checks, or delegated work are involved.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wazimmerman/zimster/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 wazimmerman/zimster --skill verification-before-completion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wazimmerman/zimster

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install zimster, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 command, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,611 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 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 $0.00021 $0.01611
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00805
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00161

Measured 8d ago against content hash 02795ce86ed1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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.

plugins/zimster/skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Before Completion

Adapted from Superpowers' evidence-before-claims discipline under the MIT License.

Iron law

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

Before saying done, fixed, passing, ready, or safe:

  1. identify the exact requirement;
  2. identify the canonical command/observation;
  3. run it on the final relevant tree/environment;
  4. read complete output, exit status, counts, warnings, skips;
  5. map evidence to the requirement;
  6. claim only the supported state.

Delegated implementation evidence is incomplete until the persistent owner has inspected it, run the named acceptance proof, and recorded acceptance. Requested model settings are not proof of the effective model; report effective routing as unverified when the harness cannot expose it.

Discover canonical commands first

Resolve <zimster-runtime> to the installed using-zimster skill root when it contains scripts/project-commands.mjs, otherwise to the full plugin root when that script exists there. Never resolve it from the target repository; use the manual fallback when neither path exists.

Prefer repository-declared commands in this order:

  1. repository instructions (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, contribution docs);
  2. package scripts (package.json, language manifests);
  3. Makefile, task runner, or project scripts;
  4. CI workflow commands.

Use <zimster-runtime>/scripts/project-commands.mjs as an inventory aid when available. Prefer npm test over an invented node --test command when the repository defines it. Invent direct commands or flags only when canonical commands cannot establish the required proof; state why and how the direct command differs.

Classify command evidence accurately

Do not call every successful process a “full suite.” Distinguish:

  • command failed before discovering tests: setup/flag/loader failure; zero behavioral evidence;
  • command succeeded with zero tests: valid command, no tests discovered;
  • baseline suite ran with zero tests: starting-state fact, not a post-change passing suite;
  • focused test run: named subset with exact counts;
  • affected/subsystem suite: declared scope and counts;
  • full project gate: canonical project command and exact counts;
  • external/hardware/manual observation: named environment and result.

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 178 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 02795ce86ed1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-before-completion is a skill published in the GitHub repository wazimmerman/zimster (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,611 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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