Verify completion
Skill KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude/skills/engineering/verify-completion
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One thing to look at
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What its author says it does
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Gate every "it works / it's fixed / tests pass / done" claim behind fresh evidence — run the actual verifying command, read its output, and only then state the result. Use before committing, opening a PR, marking a task complete, handing off to or trusting a subagent, or otherwise asserting that work succeeded.
SKILL.md
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Don't claim work is done, fixed, or passing unless you've just run the thing that proves it and read the output. Saying it's complete when you haven't checked isn't optimism — it's reporting something you don't know to be true, and it breaks trust the moment it turns out wrong.
The one rule
No completion claim without fresh verification. If you haven't run the verifying command in this turn, you can't say it passes. "Should pass now", "I'm confident", "the logs looked fine" are not evidence — they're the feelings that precede unverified claims.
The gate
Before stating any status, or even expressing satisfaction ("great", "perfect", "done"):
- Identify the command that would prove the claim.
- Run it — the full command, fresh, start to finish. Not a partial check, not a remembered result from earlier.
- Read the whole output: exit code, failure count, warnings.
- Decide. Does the output actually confirm the claim? If not, state the real status with the evidence. If so, state the claim with the evidence.
Skipping any of these steps turns a verification into a guess.
What each claim actually requires
| Claim | What proves it | What does not |
|---|---|---|
| Tests pass | A fresh test run showing 0 failures | A previous run; "should pass" |
| Linter clean | Linter output, 0 errors | A partial check; extrapolating |
| Build succeeds | Build command, exit 0 | Linter passing; logs "looking good" |
| Bug fixed | The original symptom retested and gone | The code changed, so it's "probably fixed" |
| Regression test works | Watched it fail before the fix, pass after | It passes once now |
| Requirements met | A line-by-line pass over the requirements | Tests passing |
| Subagent finished | The actual diff / output inspected | The subagent reporting "success" |
A linter passing doesn't mean it compiles. A subagent saying "done" doesn't mean it did the work — check the diff. A regression test that's only ever passed hasn't been shown to catch anything; verify it fails without the fix, then passes with it.
Red flags — stop before you claim
- Reaching for "should", "probably", "seems to."
- About to say "great" / "perfect" / "done" before running anything.
- About to commit, push, or open a PR without a fresh check.
- Taking a subagent's success report at face value.
- Leaning on a partial or earlier run.
- "Just this once" / "I'm tired, close enough."
- Any wording that implies success when you haven't run the proof.
Different phrasing doesn't exempt you — a paraphrase that implies the work is done is still a completion claim.
The bottom line
Run the command. Read the output. Then make the claim. There's no shortcut that preserves the honesty of the statement.
What ships with it: 1 file
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- registry.json950 B
Gives 1 of the 12 instructions most quality gates skills give in 654 tokens
Counted across 1,195 of the 2,094 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-07
- Read the output and check the exit codein 54 of 1195, across 14 files
- Verify requirements using a line-by-line checklistin 53 of 1195, across 12 files
- Identify the verification command proving the claimin 51 of 1195, across 12 files
- Run the full verification commandin 50 of 1195, across 11 files
- Verify output confirms the claimhere, and in 49 of 1195, across 12 files
- Check version control diff after agent delegationin 46 of 1195, across 6 files
- State claim with evidencein 44 of 1195, across 4 files
- Run the test suitein 33 of 1195, across 26 files
- Keep state in memory by defaultin 27 of 1195, across 6 files
- Make prototype runnable with one commandin 26 of 1195, across 5 files
- Produce a verification reportin 25 of 1195, across 14 files
- Detect the package manager from lockfilesin 24 of 1195, across 5 files
Said here and by no other author read
- pass line-by-line over the requirements
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