maintain-verification-skill
Skill4 starsChanged 2 months agoMITView on GitHub
Periodic pass that keeps a project's verification skill and feature map honest: parallel source readers per feature, one live session driving every feature, at most one PR of proven corrections. Use for /maintain-verification-skill or \"audit the verify skill\".
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3 rules. 3 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 66 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Common: line 26
Index hygiene: Read the feature map README and glob its sibling files.
- Common: line 30
Reconcile: Every feature file has a returned summary.
- Common: line 38
Keep concise run notes (features covered, unreachable prerequisites, confirmed drift, outcome) in a scratch location.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 66 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Maintain a verification skill
A feature map rots the moment the app changes. This skill is the upkeep loop for a skill generated by create-verification-skill, or any project-local verification skill with a feature map. The unit of rigor is the feature, not every sentence: cover every feature file from source and exercise every feature live, without terminalising every bullet.
Outcomes
Pick one, and say which:
- clean — every feature got source and live coverage; nothing worth shipping. No branch, no PR.
- changed — one PR ships proven doc, harness, or map corrections.
- blocked — coverage could not finish or a proven fix could not ship safely. Say exactly what blocked it.
Edit scope
Only edit the verification skill's own directory (its SKILL.md, features/, and any harness scripts it owns). Never edit product code during a run: a behavior the map describes that the app no longer does is either doc drift (fix the map) or a product regression (report it, don't paper over it in docs).
Pass
- Locate the target. Read the host-path table, then find
verify-*under the active host's project skill root. Confirm that the candidate has launch and drive sections plus a feature map. If several candidates exist, ask which one. If none exist, stop and point at create-verification-skill instead of inventing a target. - Index hygiene. Read the feature map README and glob its sibling files. Fix missing, extra, duplicate, or dead entries. Lightweight; no generated inventory.
- Source wave. When subagents are available and permitted, launch one read-only subagent per feature file. Otherwise inspect every feature inline. Each pass explains how the user-facing feature works from source, flags likely doc drift with citations, and returns one concise live-verification recipe. Source readers never drive the app or edit files. Return the feature summary, source entry points, likely drift or none, and one recipe.
- Reconcile. Every feature file has a returned summary. Merge overlapping recipes into as few app states as practical. Spot-check cited drift; don't re-prove clean claims. Sweep recent churn for user-facing surfaces missing from the map — require a concrete source path before calling one missing.
- Live pass. Required even when source looks clean. The coordinator owns all driving; follow the verification skill's own launch model — one long-lived instance driven serially for servers and UIs, or a fresh isolated session per drive for short-lived CLIs (the skill's Launch section decides, not this one). Exercise every feature at least once, and hold three invariants the whole pass, whatever the failure: (1) never drive an instance you haven't health-checked since it last did something surprising — doctor before first drive, doctor on each fresh session where sessions are the unit, doctor again after any failed drive, and where doctor can't see the failure (a wedged UI state on a healthy process), reset to a known state or relaunch rather than hoping; (2) evidence captured so far survives every cleanup, checked at its named location, not assumed; (3) nothing a drive started outlives that drive's usefulness — failed-iteration residue is cleaned whether the session is stuck, exited, or shared (for a shared instance, clean the residue, not the instance). A doctor failure caused by skill drift is drift: fix it under edit scope and retry once — restart whatever the fix invalidated, nothing more — before calling the pass
blocked. A feature that can't be reached isverified-unreachableonly with the concrete prerequisite (auth, entitlement, OS, external state) and the route attempted; if the map omits that prerequisite, that's drift. Any harness fix from triage gets re-driven live before it ships. Final teardown happens after the last drive of the run — including those re-proofs — so nothing outlives the run (evidence stays, per the skill). - Triage. Wrong or missing user-POV description → doc drift, fix it. Working behavior the harness can't drive → harness gap, fix it; a harness fix follows the same helpers rule as generation (scripts executable, invocation documented in the skill body). App behavior that's actually broken → product gap; record it for the user, keep it out of this PR.
- Ship or stop. For changed: one PR of proven corrections, re-read every changed file first. For clean or blocked: no PR, report the outcome and the coverage honestly.
Keep concise run notes (features covered, unreachable prerequisites, confirmed drift, outcome) in a scratch location; don't commit them.
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