verification-before-completion

Installation
Summary

Enforce verification commands before claiming work completion, fixes, or test passes—no success assertions without fresh evidence.

  • Requires running the actual verification command (not assumptions or partial checks) and confirming output before making any completion or correctness claims
  • Applies to all success-related statements: test passes, builds succeeding, bugs fixed, requirements met, regressions verified, and agent task completion
  • Blocks common shortcuts like trusting agent reports, relying on linter passes as build proof, or using confidence/assumptions instead of actual command output
  • Includes a five-step gate function: identify the proof command, run it fresh, read full output and exit code, verify the claim matches evidence, then state the result with evidence attached
SKILL.md

Verification Before Completion

Overview

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

Core principle: Evidence before claims, always.

Violating the letter of this rule is violating the spirit of this rule.

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.

The Gate Function

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