Verification Before Completion

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. Evidence before claims, always — identify what command proves the claim, run it fresh, read the full output, then state the claim WITH that evidence. Skip any step and it's not verification.

The value of this skill isn't the principle above — every model already "knows" evidence beats assertion. The value is the tables below and in references/: they name the specific rationalizations and specific insufficient-evidence patterns that let a claim slip through anyway.

Common Failures (what a claim actually requires)