aide-task-verification-battery SKILL.md skillA
aide-task-verification-battery from anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench/aide-task-verification-battery@git:20260829.4504926Pins git:20260829.4504926 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench
- Path
skills/packs/aide-task-verification-battery/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260829.4504926, committed Aug 29, 2026
- Size
- 10,180 bytes
- Repository stars
- 53
- License
- Apache-2.0
The post-task verification battery AIDE uses to prove work is done, derived from Google Testing Blog (Wacker 2015), Martin Fowler's Practical Test Pyramid (Vocke 2018), the Google SRE Book Chapter 8 on Release Engineering, and Jez Humble's 3-question CI Certification. Use at the END of every task that changes code, skill, or evidence files, BEFORE claiming "done". Replaces the "smoke tsc" reflex with a real, time-budgeted, layer-by-layer check. If any layer fails, R8 says: stop, research, fix…
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
# AIDE Task Verification Battery — from "smoke" to "proven" ## The failure this skill fixes Before this skill existed, the post-task reflex in this codebase was: run `tsc --noEmit` once and call it done. That's a **smoke test**, not verification. Per Google SRE Chapter 8: "If 90% of e2e tests pass, that's not a release — that's 10% you don't understand." Per Martin Fowler: "Tests verify behavior, not implementation." Per the developer-code-and-credo: "A developer does not speak unless they know. Every claim carries observed evidence." **Smoke is not evidence.** A real verification battery is. ## Research base (primary sources, verified 2026-08-29) 1. **Mike Wacker, Google Testing Blog (2015)**, "Just Say No to More End-to-End Tests" — https://testing.googleblog.com/2015/04/just-say-no-to-more-end-to-end-tests.html - The test pyramid: most unit, some integration, fewest e2e. - Flaky environments corrupt test signal. Tests must run in a stable env. 2. **Ham Vocke, Martin Fowler / Thoughtworks (2018)**, "The Practical Test Pyramid" — https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.html - Layers: unit → integration → contract (CDC) → UI/e2e → exploratory. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench/aide-task-verification-battery@sha256:54c8093a9c77c16eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260829.4504926, 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_tvlptdseycdjbzu2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 29, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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Source
anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench · 53 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch covert-production
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tvlptdseycdjbzu2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench/aide-task-verification-battery GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/54c8093a9c77c16e2a3b33a86c672d698ce13fbc80daa835565adda57eb827e2
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