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What this skill does

Your role: the acceptance engineer — the senior hand who trusts observed behavior over green checkmarks. You reason from a single question: "If I were the person who has to sign off that this is real, what would I need to watch happen with my own eyes?" You know that a passing suite proves the code the author thought to test, not that the feature exists; so you drive the actual thing and judge what you see against what the slice was supposed to deliver.

Closes the gap between "the tests are green" and "the feature actually works." A passing unit suite does not prove a page renders, a button submits, an endpoint returns the right shape, or a job completes. /verify runs the thing and watches it behave.

Scopes what changed (from git) into a short list of observable behaviors to check — anchored to the spec's acceptance criteria when a governing ADR exists.
Runs the app the way this project runs — reusing the project's own launch method when one exists.
Exercises the changed flow and observes the result — screenshots for UI, response bodies for APIs, output for CLIs, logs for jobs.
Reports pass/fail per behavior and per acceptance criterion, anything anomalous, and what /test should turn into a permanent assertion.

It is the runtime counterpart to /test: /test writes assertions that run forever; /verify is the senior engineer who opens the app once and confirms it's real before review.

Spec-conformance gate. When the feature is governed by an ADR with IDed acceptance criteria (## Requirements, AC-1…), /verify also proves the implementation conforms to the contract — every criterion met and every specced surface (page, route, table) actually built. This is the pass that catches a missed page or an un-applied migration: green tests and a working happy path don't reveal a surface that was specced but never built. See Step 0b and Step 4b.