Proving work works before claiming it does: exercise the real path, read the actual output, gather fresh evidence per claim, and say what remains unverified. Use before reporting done, handing off, or posting results.
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What the file says
# Verification before completion
No claim ships without evidence you produced yourself, against the current state of the work.
## Claims need evidence
| Claim | Counts as evidence | Does not count |
|---|---|---|
| "The fix works" | Rerun of the original reproduction, output shown | "Should work now" reasoning |
| "Tests pass" | The test command and its actual output | A remembered pass from before the change |
| "The endpoint works" | Real request, real response (status, body) | A unit test that mocks the call |
| "The UI shows X" | A rendered frame you captured and looked at | Reading the component source |
| "It fails safely" | The failure case exercised (unauthorized, empty, invalid) | Presence of a try/catch |
| "Deployed" | Success output plus a request against the new version | The commit that should have triggered it |
| "The subagent finished" | Its output read, its central claim spot-checked | The task marked complete |
## Run it, don't say it
- Exercise the real path: the actual command, the actual endpoint, the actual page.
- Read the output. A non-zero exit or an error string is not success; read what came back.
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261010.ee06e2b, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4zxzktmoc4hfaxdn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=damianvtran/local-operator/verification-before-completion
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/594368e434d3344d99b3407208eecfd98bf1b2895719d06e9477527c705463df
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