Autoresearch Verify

Build a single repo-specific verifier script with two modes. The script is what every candidate change is scored against. This skill produces only the script — git handling, branching, baselines, acceptance rules, and the gating relationship between light and heavy all live in program.md (created by autoresearch-program).

Prerequisites

• autoresearch-method has been read and the repo passes the fit checklist (single metric, lockable verifier, bounded mutable scope, cheap evaluation).
• The repo is a git repo. Clean working tree is preferred; if dirty, confirm with the human before writing files.

What this skill produces

One artifact at the target repo root (or another location the human chooses):

• verify.py — a Python script with two modes:
  • python verify.py --mode light (default mode if --mode is omitted)
  • python verify.py --mode heavy

This skill does not create program.md, configure git, run baselines, or define when heavy is invoked. Those are autoresearch-program's job.