ia-verification-before-completion SKILL.md skillA

ia-verification-before-completion from iliaal/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-verification-before-completion@git:20261015.ddb5006

Pins git:20261015.ddb5006 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
iliaal/whetstone
Path
plugins/whetstone/skills/ia-verification-before-completion/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
git:20261015.ddb5006, committed Oct 15, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 29, 2026
Size
5,903 bytes
Repository stars
35
License
MIT

Enforces fresh verification evidence before any completion claim. Use when about to claim "tests pass", "bug fixed", "done", "ready to merge", handing off work, or before editing when a request has ambiguous scope.

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

# Verification before completion

Make completion claims only from fresh evidence for the actual claim. Follow the user's authorized scope; repository instructions supply applicable checks, not permission to mutate, publish, or weaken a requirement.

## Procedure

1. Resolve ambiguous scope before editing. Inspect the repository and state a safe assumption when one interpretation is clear. Ask only when materially different interpretations remain; do not edit the disputed scope while waiting.
2. Inspect `git status --porcelain` and preserve unrelated work. Before any suite or migration runs, including a baseline, confirm its database and service targets are disposable (a dedicated test database, container, or throwaway schema; never the dev database) ([proof-integrity.md](./references/proof-integrity.md), Pre-Verification Check). For dependency/framework upgrades, codegen, or migrations, capture the existing validation command set before writing and rerun it unchanged afterward. If that baseline is red, report before proceeding. Shared-module verification on a dirty tree needs an isolated base comparison.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-verification-before-completion@sha256:c32a985785ded2a4

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.ddb5006, 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.

Badge

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Versions

The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Aug 29, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 7 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261015.ddb5006 latest2026-10-15 ddb5006 5,903 BA view · diff
git:20261009.f3073c42026-10-09 f3073c4 5,642 BA view · diff
git:20260926.c89983b2026-09-26 c89983b 5,318 BA view · diff
git:20260907.228ec832026-09-07 228ec83 5,039 BA view · diff
git:20260906.35b18c42026-09-06 35b18c4 25,784 BA view · diff
git:20260906.5eab8612026-09-06 5eab861 20,939 BA view · diff
git:20260829.ebb47302026-08-29 ebb4730 18,900 BA view · diff
git:20260829.7a804662026-08-29 7a80466 18,907 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5903 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

iliaal/whetstone · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6p6smjdgfdpor34g
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iliaal/whetstone/ia-verification-before-completion
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c32a985785ded2a4821fe4da8f7d53d4b1b45b1c2451985c4cf2834b89db4be0

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