verification-mastery

verification-mastery is a skill for Claude Code from xenitV1/claude-code-maestro. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,672 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for verifying technical work with fresh evidence before making claims about its status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify the command that proves a claim, run it, inspect the full output and exit status, and report the actual result.
Why use it?
It prevents declaring a fix or task complete based only on assumptions, memory, or an unverified success message.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the maestro plugin — 13 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify the command that proves a claim, run it…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xenitv1/claude-code-maestro/verification-mastery
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 xenitV1/claude-code-maestro --skill verification-mastery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xenitV1/claude-code-maestro

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install maestro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,672 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 $0.00024 $0.01672
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00836
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00167

Measured 7d ago against content hash 138e8504faad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-mastery 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 7d 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-mastery/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<domain_overview>

✅ VERIFICATION MASTERY: EVIDENCE BEFORE CLAIMS

Philosophy: Claiming work is complete without verification is dishonesty, not efficiency. Evidence before claims, always. EVIDENCE INTEGRITY MANDATE (CRITICAL): Never claim a task is complete based on assumption or past memory. You MUST generate fresh evidence (logs, screenshots, test output) for every claim. AI-generated success reports are untrustworthy without proof. Any completion signal sent without accompanying verification artifacts must be rejected as "Hallucinated Success".


🚨 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. Violating the letter of this rule is violating the spirit of this rule. </domain_overview> <core_workflow>

🚪 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

</core_workflow> <quality_standards>

📋 COMMON CLAIMS AND REQUIREMENTS

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
"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
"No errors" Command output reviewed "I think it's fine"

<red_flags>

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 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. 7d ago First seen · 217 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 138e8504faad

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verification-mastery is a skill published in the GitHub repository xenitV1/claude-code-maestro (230 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,672 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 2026-08-30.

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