Verification Before Completion
A guardrail against premature success claims. Before saying something is complete, fixed, or passing — and before committing or opening a PR — it requires you to actually run the verification command and read the result. No 'should work,' no assuming green. The rule is evidence first, claim second. Third-party skill from Jesse Vincent's Superpowers collection.
What it does
Bars you from claiming work is done, fixed, or passing until you've run the check and confirmed the output — evidence before assertions, always
How to use this
Once it is installed, this skill picks itself up. You do not need to name it.
- Created by
- Jesse Vincent
- Category
- Engineering
- Source
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Verification Before Completion
A guardrail against premature success claims. Before saying something is complete, fixed, or passing — and before committing or opening a PR — it requires you to actually run the verification command and read the result. No 'should work,' no assuming green. The rule is evidence first, claim second. Third-party skill from Jesse Vincent's Superpowers collection.
Third-party, by Jesse Vincent
June 8, 2026
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Open the Claude desktop app and go to the Project you want this in
Go to Code, then Customize, then click Create a new skill and upload the skill file below
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In ChatGPT, create a Project and attach the file (or paste its contents into the project instructions). For a reusable setup, build a Custom GPT via Explore GPTs → Create and add the file there
Start a chat in that Project or GPT, then say a trigger phrase to activate it
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Place it at .cursor/skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md (rename the downloaded file to SKILL.md). The shared .agents/skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md path also works
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Place it at .github/skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md in your repository (rename the downloaded file to SKILL.md)
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Place it at .agents/skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md in your repository (rename the downloaded file to SKILL.md)
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What this skill does
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The full SKILL.md for this third-party skill lives on GitHub. Open it to read the exact instructions Claude will follow.