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verification-before-completion skillA

Name: verification-before-completion
Author: jnpiyush

verification-before-completion is agent-read markdown (skill) from jnpiyush/agentx: Block false completion claims. Force the agent to identify the claim, run the exact verification command, read the actual output, compare against the claim, and only then report. Use whenever an agent is about to say "done", "fixed", "tests pass", "deployed", "loop complete", or close an issue..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

What the file says

# Verification Before Completion

> WHEN: Any time the active agent is about to claim work is finished -- "done", "complete", "fixed", "tests pass", "loop complete", "ready for review", "deployed", "issue closed". The single most common Frontier failure mode is reporting completion that fresh verification would have caught.

## When to Use This Skill

Load this skill when:

- An Engineer agent is about to close an issue or run `frontier loop complete`
- A Reviewer agent is about to set `APPROVED`
- A Tester agent is about to mark a test plan green
- A DevOps agent is about to claim a deployment succeeded
- Any agent is about to report results in chat without having re-run the check on the current commit

Skip when:

- The work is purely exploratory and no completion claim is being made
- The user has explicitly asked for a partial / in-progress report

## Prerequisites

- Access to the verification surface (test runner, CLI, build, app under test, deployed URL)
- Knowledge of the exact command that proves the claim
- Current commit SHA or build identifier to anchor the evidence

## Rationalization Table

The five most common ways agents skip verification. Push back against each.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

Latest version

mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/verification-before-completion@git:20260915.f17c505

Exact content

mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/verification-before-completion@sha256:4018870be7d2fc78

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_sqxzhrkqrw7inqc5.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_sqxzhrkqrw7inqc5)

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Versions

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260915.f17c505 latest	2026-09-15	f17c505	7,112 B	A	view · diff
git:20260903.b3f2610	2026-09-03	b3f2610	7,102 B	A	view · diff
git:20260517.4703a79	2026-05-17	4703a79	7,080 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (7112 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

jnpiyush/agentx · 16 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-21 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sqxzhrkqrw7inqc5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jnpiyush/agentx/verification-before-completion
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4018870be7d2fc788a1aab67efe7c82fae3b66a6a356e90bab199af2bdc8a7aa

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