verification-before-completion SKILL.md skillA
verification-before-completion from thegoat395/codex-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add thegoat395/codex-skills/verification-before-completion@git:20260905.f7824baPins git:20260905.f7824ba in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- thegoat395/codex-skills
- Path
skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260905.f7824ba, committed Sep 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 30, 2026
- Size
- 2,695 bytes
- Repository stars
- 137
- License
- MIT
Assess nontrivial completion evidence.
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 ## Core principle Evidence before claims. Verification should be fresh, decisive, and proportionate to the result being asserted. For an obvious low-impact local edit, apply the direct check without loading this skill or creating a formal verification artifact. Use this fuller workflow when the evidence choice, failure interpretation or completion boundary is nontrivial, or when explicitly invoked. ## Lightweight gate Before claiming that work is complete, fixed, passing, deployed, sent, published, or otherwise in a verified state: 1. Name the exact claim and its consequence. 2. Choose the smallest fresh check that can actually prove it. 3. Run the check and read the exit status, failures, and material output. 4. Report the result with exact coverage and anything not verified. Do not replace a required runtime check with source inspection, a build with lint, or end-to-end evidence with an agent's success message. Do not run an entire test universe when a targeted regression plus the repository's required gate proves the claim. ## Match evidence to the claim | Claim | Decisive evidence | |---|---| …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add thegoat395/codex-skills/verification-before-completion@sha256:3d9d1ec205fc3ae7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260905.f7824ba, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_a26podkgqii2auiz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 30, 2026 and Sep 5, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260905.f7824ba latest | 2026-09-05 | f7824ba | 2,695 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260830.0196be9 | 2026-08-30 | 0196be9 | 3,646 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 (2695 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
thegoat395/codex-skills · 137 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_a26podkgqii2auiz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thegoat395/codex-skills/verification-before-completion GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3d9d1ec205fc3ae7a01d63b6b56f895a122a472ba7c65fba896732244b667399
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