verify

verify is a skill for Claude Code from yash-gadodia/claude-init. It costs 27 tokens per session (656 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification rule and workflow that requires fresh evidence before claiming a task is complete. Verification means running the relevant checks and reading their results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing and running proof commands, checking exit codes and results, and reporting only what the evidence supports.
Why use it?
It prevents unsupported claims that code works, tests pass, or a fix is complete.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the claude-init plugin — 11 skills, 1 command, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Choosing and running proof commands, checking exit codes and results, and reporting only what the evidence supports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yash-gadodia/claude-init/verify
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 yash-gadodia/claude-init --skill verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yash-gadodia/claude-init

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-init, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 command, 7 agents.

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 verify

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for verify

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yash-gadodia/claude-init/verify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yash-gadodia/claude-init/verify.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 656 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 $0.00027 $0.00656
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00328
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00066

Measured 9d ago against content hash 64cd822951ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 9d 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.

templates/skills/verify/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Before Completion

Claiming work is complete without verification is dishonesty, not efficiency.

Core principle: evidence before claims, always.

The Iron Law

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

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

Current Repo State

Loaded fresh when this skill triggers — so you can't claim "tests passed" from a stale mental model:

Uncommitted changes:

!git status --short 2>/dev/null || echo "(not a git repo)"

Last commit:

!git log -1 --oneline 2>/dev/null || echo "(no git history)"

The Gate

Before claiming ANY status (done, fixed, passing, working, complete):

  1. Identify: What command proves this claim?
  2. Run: Execute the full command (fresh, not cached from earlier)
  3. Read: Full output, check exit code, count pass/fail
  4. Confirm: Does the output support the claim?
    • No: State actual status with evidence
    • Yes: State claim WITH the evidence ("All 47 tests pass — see output above")
  5. Only then: Make the claim

Skip any step = unverified claim.

What Counts as Verification

Claim Requires NOT Sufficient
"Tests pass" Test command output showing 0 failures Previous run, "should pass"
"Build succeeds" Build command with exit 0 "Linter passed"
"Bug is fixed" Test reproducing the bug now passes "Code changed"
"Requirements met" Line-by-line checklist against spec "Tests pass"
"Linter clean" Linter output showing 0 errors Partial check

Red Flags — STOP

These thoughts mean you're about to make an unverified claim:

  • Using "should", "probably", "seems to", "looks correct"
  • Feeling satisfied before running verification
  • About to say "Done!" or "Fixed!" or "All good!"
  • Trusting that a change you just made works without running it
  • Thinking "just this once" or "it's obvious it works"

Replace each with: run the command, read the output, cite the evidence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 9d ago First seen · 76 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 64cd822951ac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository yash-gadodia/claude-init (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 656 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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