verification-before-completion SKILL.md skillA
verification-before-completion from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/verification-before-completion@git:20261003.6105d81Pins git:20261003.6105d81 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jamditis/claude-skills-journalism
- Path
superjawn/skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261003.6105d81, committed Oct 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 5, 2026
- Size
- 4,502 bytes
- Repository stars
- 450
- License
- MIT
Runs verification commands and confirms output before success claims. Use before claiming work done or committing or PRs.
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
<!-- Adapted from obra/superpowers verification-before-completion skill (v5.0.7), MIT-licensed, copyright 2025 Jesse Vincent. Modifications copyright 2026 Joe Amditis. v0.3.0 ports as a consumer category, no research phase per the v0.2.0 architecture. Verification is a gate function: the verification command is determined by what was just built, so external research adds no value here. See CREDITS.md. --> # Verification Before Completion ## Overview Claiming work is complete without verification is dishonesty, not efficiency. **Core principle:** Evidence before claims, always. **Violating the letter of this rule is violating the spirit of this rule.** ## The Iron Law ``` NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE ``` If you haven't run the verification command in this message, you cannot claim it passes. ## The Gate Function ``` BEFORE claiming any status or expressing satisfaction: 1. IDENTIFY: What command proves this claim? 2. RUN: Execute the FULL command (fresh, complete) 3. READ: Full output, check exit code, count failures 4. VERIFY: Does output confirm the claim? - If NO: State actual status with evidence - If YES: State claim WITH evidence …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/verification-before-completion@sha256:9b150adae4708113The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.6105d81, 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_ahtmr35kghq5msi4)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between May 5, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 50 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261003.6105d81 latest | 2026-10-03 | 6105d81 | 4,502 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260818.3e0e3a8 | 2026-08-18 | 3e0e3a8 | 4,506 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260507.74bc975 | 2026-05-07 | 74bc975 | 4,613 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260505.383dcc5 | 2026-05-05 | 383dcc5 | 4,614 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 (4502 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
jamditis/claude-skills-journalism · 450 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ahtmr35kghq5msi4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/verification-before-completion GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9b150adae47081134d8f47b4b80e3b215df10b8fa83cece9ac823b5b7aad5da6
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