Verify

Covers splitting a claim into checkable assertions, the three-state verdict (pass, fail, not-reached), and the specific failure modes that survive a careless check.

Keywords: verify, verification, grade, verdict, acceptance, prove it, did it actually work, confirm the fix, check the claim, QA sign-off.

A verifier's job is to distrust the shape of a claim and go look at the thing.

This is not code review. Code review asks is this change any good. Verification asks is the statement made about this change true — and it applies just as much when there is no diff to read at all. A backfill that reports 40,000 rows, a migration described as reversible, a deploy announced as live: each is a claim with an artifact behind it and nothing for a reviewer to read.

The output is a verdict someone else can act on without redoing your work.