verification-before-completion

verification-before-completion is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zszz3/AgentRecall. It costs 31 tokens per session (402 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A final checking process that requires fresh evidence before declaring work complete, fixed, passing, or ready to merge. The evidence must match the specific claim being made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before reporting that tests pass, a build succeeds, a bug is fixed, a user interaction works, or a change is ready to merge.
Why use it?
It prevents confidence, old results, or a clean-looking code diff from being mistaken for proof. Each requirement is checked with the relevant test, build, review, or runtime observation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zszz3/agentrecall/verification-before-completion
Any agent
npx skills add zszz3/AgentRecall --skill verification-before-completion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zszz3/AgentRecall

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 verification-before-completion

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zszz3/agentrecall/verification-before-completion.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zszz3/agentrecall/verification-before-completion)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zszz3/agentrecall/verification-before-completion"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zszz3/agentrecall/verification-before-completion.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 402 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00031 $0.00402
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00201
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00040

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2b3e8b0596f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 6d 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.

apps/main-2.0/assets/bundled-skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Verification Before Completion

Core rule

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

Confidence, old results, a clean-looking diff, or another agent's report are not evidence.

Verification gate

Before saying that anything works:

  1. Identify the command or observation that proves the exact claim.
  2. Run the complete verification now, not from memory or an earlier turn.
  3. Read the full output, exit code, failure count, and warnings.
  4. Compare the evidence with the claim and the acceptance criteria.
  5. If it does not prove the claim, report the actual state and remaining gap.
  6. Only then state the successful result and cite the evidence.

Evidence by claim

Claim Required evidence
Tests pass Fresh test output with zero failures
Build succeeds Fresh build command with exit code 0
Bug is fixed Original reproduction or regression test now passes
UI behavior works Runtime observation of the requested interaction
Ready to merge Relevant tests, build, diff review, and repository checks
Requirement is complete Each acceptance criterion mapped to evidence

A narrow test proves only its narrow behavior. Typecheck is not a build; a build is not an interaction test; a screenshot is not proof of persistence or backend behavior.

Regression tests

For a new regression test, witness the red-green cycle. When practical, revert the fix temporarily, confirm the test fails, restore the fix, and confirm it passes.

Reporting

  • State exactly which commands ran and their results.
  • Separate verified facts from unverified assumptions.
  • Mention skipped checks and why they were skipped.
  • Do not use “should”, “probably”, or “looks fixed” as substitutes for evidence.
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. 6d ago First seen · 50 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 2b3e8b0596f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verification-before-completion is a skill published in the GitHub repository zszz3/AgentRecall (762 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 402 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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