chain-of-verification SKILL.md skillA
chain-of-verification from nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog/chain-of-verification@git:20260924.947d255Pins git:20260924.947d255 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog
- Path
aura-frog/skills/chain-of-verification/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260924.947d255, committed Sep 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 21, 2026
- Size
- 5,410 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- MIT
Draft → generate verification questions → answer independently via tools → revise. Catches hallucinated facts in reports and reviews. MANDATORY for Phase 4 security/test claims. Paper: Dhuliawala et al. 2023.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
> **AI-consumed reference.** Optimized for Claude to read during execution. > Human-readable explanation: see [docs/architecture/HIERARCHICAL_PLANNING.md](../../../docs/architecture/HIERARCHICAL_PLANNING.md) > or [docs/getting-started/](../../../docs/getting-started/) depending on topic. # Chain-of-Verification Catch hallucinations by forcing the model to verify its own claims via tools. **Governed by:** `rules/workflow/chain-of-verification.md` (when / why — MANDATORY in Phase 4) --- ## When NOT to Use - Simple file-list reports with no factual claims - Quick fixes that don't produce any claim - User uses `just do:` (but still verify destructive claims) - Already ran CoVe on this exact content (cache in memory) --- ## The 4-Step Protocol ### Step 1 — Draft Generate the answer/report as normal. Do NOT optimize for correctness yet. ### Step 2 — Plan verifications List **3–5 focused questions** that would disprove the draft. Each question must be: - **Answerable via tool** (Read/Bash/Grep/Glob) — not from memory - **Independent** — doesn't assume the draft is correct - **Specific** — targets a concrete claim, not a vibe ### Step 3 — Execute verifications …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog/chain-of-verification@sha256:e25bc74e2eed3153The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260924.947d255, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 21, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026, about one every 39 days.
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| git:20260924.947d255 latest | 2026-09-24 | 947d255 | 5,410 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260515.6be9f59 | 2026-05-15 | 6be9f59 | 5,359 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260428.3e00277 | 2026-04-28 | 3e00277 | 5,068 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260421.3e1db83 | 2026-04-21 | 3e1db83 | 5,046 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260421.1fdc0f3 | 2026-04-21 | 1fdc0f3 | 4,998 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5410 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog · 25 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2gcveul3tvxd6wd2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog/chain-of-verification GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e25bc74e2eed31532c52e4bbd62aa92b9dcb99e3e0c8340f9d5c665badb8fd95
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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