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.

Install it, pinned
mdr add nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog/chain-of-verification@git:20261029.30f94d9

Pins git:20261029.30f94d9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog
Path
archon-os/skills/chain-of-verification/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261029.30f94d9, committed Oct 29, 2026
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5,410 bytes
Repository stars
26
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

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog/chain-of-verification@sha256:e25bc74e2eed3153

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.30f94d9, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 29, 2026.

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  • 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

GitHub

nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog · 26 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3qs2wrjh2he3hlb6
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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