Verification Before Completion

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Verification before completion

Example prompts

• “/verification-before-completion”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Evidence Required: Every claim needs supporting evidence
2. 2Fresh Verification: Must verify now, not rely on previous runs
3. 3Complete Verification: Full command, not partial checks
4. 4Honest Reporting: Report actual state, not hoped-for state

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 25203d3. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Verification Before Completion loads about 1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~14k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 25 tokens; SKILL.md has 368 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~25

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~14k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from bobmatnyc/claude-mpm at commit 25203d3, republished under its MIT licence (© bobmatnyc). 368 words, ~1,036 tokens.

name

verification-before-completion

description

Run verification commands and confirm output before claiming success

version

2.0.0

category

debugging

author

Jesse Vincent

license

MIT

source

https://github.com/obra/superpowers-skills/tree/main/skills/debugging/verification-before-completion

progressive_disclosure.references

gate-function.md, verification-patterns.md, red-flags-and-failures.md, integration-and-workflows.md

context_limit

800

tags

verification, quality-assurance, honesty, evidence

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

✅ [Run pytest] [Output: 34/34 passed] "All tests pass"

❌ "Should pass now"
❌ "Looks correct"
❌ "Tests were passing"
❌ "I'm confident it works"

© bobmatnyc, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 7 other files (references) in plugin/skills/universal-debugging-verification-before-completion of bobmatnyc/claude-mpm.

• SKILL.md
• .etag_cache.json
• metadata.json
• references/.etag_cache.json
• references/gate-function.md
• references/integration-and-workflows.md
• references/red-flags-and-failures.md
• references/verification-patterns.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 25203d3

Used in 2 other repositories

We found 3 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 2 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in bobmatnyc/claude-mpm, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• einverne/dotfilesclaude/skills/debugging/verification-before-completion
• aAAaqwq/AGI-Super-Teamskills/sp-verification-before-completion