Agent skill

Verify Changes

by epam in epam/cloud-pipeline

Find and run the checks a change owes, from what it touches and what that can reach.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passed

Install Verify Changes

skills CLI
$ npx skills add epam/cloud-pipeline --skill verify-changes -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install epam/cloud-pipeline verify-changes --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/epam/cloud-pipeline.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/verify-changes .claude/skills/verify-changes && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
verify-changes
GitHub stars
162
Token cost
~748 tokens
SKILL.md length
344 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
8
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Find and run the checks a change owes, from what it touches and what that can reach.

  • Calls npm, git and python

What it does

Verify Changes is an agent skill from epam/cloud-pipeline. Find and run the checks a change owes, from what it touches and what that can reach. Use after editing any file, when about to call a change finished, or when asked whether something passes.

Its SKILL.md is about 750 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It works with Gradle. The repository describes itself as: Cloud agnostic genomics analysis, scientific computation and storage platform. The licence is Apache-2.0.

Example prompts

  • “/verify-changes”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5017688. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • npm
    • git
    • python

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npm and git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Verify Changes loads about 748 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 51 tokens; SKILL.md has 344 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~51
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~748

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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 epam/cloud-pipeline at commit 5017688, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© epam). 344 words, ~748 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/verify-changes/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
verify-changes
description
Find and run the checks a change owes, from what it touches and what that can reach. Use after editing any file, when about to call a change finished, or when asked whether something passes.

Verifying a change

The Verify step. Decide what to run from the diff itself — the paths in it, and what those paths can reach.

A Gradle module's dependents owe their tests as well as the module's own. Their build.gradle is what names them:

bash
grep -rl 'project(.:core.)' --include=build.gradle .

Some declare it as project(path: ":x", configuration: "y") instead, so treat that as a starting list rather than a complete one.

Never the whole platform. buildAll, buildAllFast, distZip/distTar, buildDoc, the bootRepackage/buildUI/buildPipe artifact tasks and everything under e2e/ cost between an hour and half a day, and belong to post-merge CI or to release time by hand. Never escalate to a heavier check because a lighter one was unavailable.

A change inside e2e/gui is the exception: the tests it touches are the check it owes. Read e2e/gui/AGENTS.md first.

A partial toolchain is the normal case here. Most contributors have one language's tooling and not the others, so you satisfy a check by running it or by recording that the tool was absent. A declared skip is a correct outcome; a silent one is not.

Ask the module for its check. settings.gradle lists every Gradle subproject: run ./gradlew :<module>:test where its build.gradle gives it a test task, and ./gradlew :<module>:checkstyleMain :<module>:checkstyleTest :<module>:pmdMain :<module>:pmdTest where it has Java sources — each task carries the module prefix; unprefixed, those four are the whole platform. Several Python modules have neither — their runner is named in that module's AGENTS.md or README.md.

What departs from that:

client/ — the runners in client/AGENTS.md → "Checks", then the verify-client-live skill where it applies.

client/src/themes/ — also npm run gui-themes-prepare && git diff --exit-code -- src/themes, and commit what it regenerates.

api, elasticsearch-agent — tests need a live PostgreSQL, configured in api/src/test/resources/test-application.properties and elasticsearch-agent/src/test/resources/test-application.properties.

workflows/pipe-common/, scripts/ — cd workflows/pipe-common && export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD && python -m pytest

Any AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .claude/, .cursor/, .github/instructions/, .agents/ — .agents/skills/modifying-instructions/scripts/verify-instructions.sh

e2e/gui/ — e2e/gui/AGENTS.md, and its own e2e/gui/gradlew: a standalone build, so no root :<module>: task reaches it.

Where that search finds nothing, nothing else will check the path later either — deploy/, docs/ and the rest of e2e/ are the large cases — so reading the diff is the verification.

© epam, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/verify-changes of epam/cloud-pipeline.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5017688

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Verify Changes next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Caffeine Cache Optimization Experimentsben-manes/caffeine18k—~2.6kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.0
Android Developmentdpconde/claude-android-skill336—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Diagnosing Compose StabilityrosuH/EasyWatermark1.9k1 repos~3.3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Questions about Verify Changes

What does Verify Changes do?

Find and run the checks a change owes, from what it touches and what that can reach. Verify Changes is an agent skill from epam/cloud-pipeline. Find and run the checks a change owes, from what it touches and what that can reach.

How do I install Verify Changes in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add epam/cloud-pipeline --skill verify-changes -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/verify-changes in epam/cloud-pipeline) into .claude/skills/verify-changes in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Verify Changes in Codex?

Run `npx skills add epam/cloud-pipeline --skill verify-changes -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/verify-changes in epam/cloud-pipeline) into .agents/skills/verify-changes in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Verify Changes in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add epam/cloud-pipeline --skill verify-changes -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/verify-changes, .gemini/skills/verify-changes, .github/skills/verify-changes and .opencode/skills/verify-changes in your project.

What does Verify Changes need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Verify Changes needs the command-line tools its instructions call (npm, git and python). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Verify Changes access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use npm and git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Verify Changes safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Verify Changes use?

Verify Changes is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Verify Changes use?

About 748 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Verify Changes?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Verify Changes: Android API Diff (gkd-kit/gkd, 43k stars), Exposed Bug Fix Workflow (JetBrains/Exposed, 9.3k stars), Caffeine Cache Optimization Experiments (ben-manes/caffeine, 18k stars) and Android Development (dpconde/claude-android-skill, 336 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Verify Changes?

epam (a GitHub organization) maintains it in epam/cloud-pipeline, which has 162 GitHub stars. The repository holds 8 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: epam/cloud-pipeline on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.