VB
Verification Before Completion
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-03
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-method
Verify work actually meets its brief BEFORE declaring it done — a structured self-review pass that catches the gaps, unmet requirements, and untested claims that 'looks finished' hides. Use before handing over any deliverable (document, code, analysis, plan), when past work kept coming back with 'you missed…', or as the standing final step of any multi-step task. Produces the verified deliverable plus a short verification record: what was checked, what was found and fixed, what remains open.
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓The original request was re-read verbatim, and every requirement (incl. implicit format/tone/length) was audited
✓Everything runnable was actually run — no "should work" in the record
✓At least one adversarial read happened, from the recipient's perspective
✓Cross-section consistency was checked (summary↔body, numbers↔numbers)
✓The record states residuals honestly rather than implying total coverage
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not verify against your memory of the ask — memory is where the third requirement went to die
Do not treat a clean-looking output as evidence — polish and correctness are uncorrelated at exactly the worst moments
Do not skip the pass under time pressure — the pass is minutes; the rework it prevents is hours
Do not produce a zero-findings record on complex work — that's theatre; look harder or say what you couldn't check
Do not hide residuals to seem finished — an honest "untested under X" builds more trust than the failure it predicts
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
<div data-pm-skill="verification-before-completion"></div>
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