# modernize-verify

Re-checks that modernized code behaves like the legacy version and gives each module one verdict: PROVEN, PARTLY PROVEN or NOT PROVEN.

- command · `type=command` · Claude Code · ★ 44770
- Author: Anthropic · official Anthropic repository
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/tree/HEAD/plugins/code-modernization/commands/modernize-verify.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
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## What it does

Run it after `transform`, `uplift` or `reimagine`, ideally in a fresh session. A build leaves behind a claim; this command re-runs it. Tests are executed again from a clean state and the new behavior is compared against the old one. The verdict comes from a script with fixed rules, not from the model, and it counts only tests found in files it parses itself.

The work goes module by module. First it prints where `legacy/$system` points, since that path is often a symlink. Then it reads the configuration of the test suite and the legacy code: if a database or service is not local or throwaway, it stops and asks which environment to use. After that it deletes build output and runner caches, runs the full suite, keeps the JUnit XML and the raw log, and finally runs a canary — a copy of the module in a scratch folder with one meaningful line broken, to see whether the tests catch it.

Keep the result file or raw log of every run; counts typed into `test-runs.json` by hand do not count. Nothing is written under `legacy/`, and the built code, tests and results are never edited to improve a verdict. When the toolchain cannot run, the suite is recorded as not executed, which is NOT PROVEN rather than a pass.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install code-modernization@claude-plugins-official
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.claude/commands/modernize-verify.md` — Call it with /modernize-verify. For all projects use ~/.claude/commands/

### Codex

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.codex/prompts/modernize-verify.md` — Call it with /prompts:modernize-verify. Codex marks this format deprecated in favour of skills

### GitHub Copilot

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/prompts/modernize-verify.prompt.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.gemini/commands/modernize-verify.toml` — Gemini stores commands as TOML: the prompt text goes into the prompt field

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/tree/HEAD/plugins/code-modernization/commands/modernize-verify.md

## When to use it
- confirm a rewritten module matches the old behavior
- get one verdict per module after a transformation
- check that tests actually catch regressions with a canary
- keep run evidence instead of hand-typed counts
- spot rules that tests name but never exercise

## Example prompts
- Run modernize-verify for the billing system and check every module
- Re-check the payments module after the uplift
- Run modernize-verify on the orders legacy system and show the verdicts

## Source text · modernize-verify.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
description: Prove the modernized code behaves like the legacy, with an independent re-check and one verdict per module
arguments: system module
---

Re-check, independently, that the modernized code of `$system` behaves like the legacy, and give each module one
verdict: **PROVEN**, **PARTLY PROVEN** or **NOT PROVEN**. Run it after `transform`, `uplift` or `reimagine`, in a
fresh session if you can: what the build left behind is a claim, and this command re-runs it. **A script computes
the verdict, not you** (fixed rules, written into the output), and it counts tests only from files it parses
itself: **keep the result file or the raw log of every test run and every canary run, and never type a count into
`test-runs.json`.** You write nothing in `legacy/`, never hand-edit the built code, the tests, an output or a result
to improve a verdict, and never tick or approve anything a person owns. Run every command from the workspace root.

The code is `legacy/$system`, often a symlink to where it really lives: say where it points (`readlink legacy/$system`) in one line before you start. Run any subagent in the foreground and wait for its result: never end your turn while one is still running. Stop any server or other process you started before you finish, and say you did. Before running any suite or the legacy code, read its configuration for the databases and services it connects to: if any is not a local or throwaway instance, stop and ask which environment to use.

## 1 — What was built

**Rewrite:** each folder in `modernized/$system/`. **Same-stack uplift:** the working copy `modernized/$system-uplifted/`
(the pack calls it `$system-uplifted`; its units are named in the Code and Command lines of `BASELINE.md`).
**Reimagine:** each service in `modernized/$system-reimagined/`. Name them. With a `$module` (for an uplift, a unit)
re-run only that one; the pack still judges every built module from its current evidence, never from an earlier run.
A folder that holds only test code and the files that build it (a parity harness, say) is test tooling: the pack lists it as not judged and leaves it out of the verdict.
If nothing is built, say so and stop: the next step is the brief's Phase 1 command (`/code-modernization:modernize-status $system`).

## 2 — Which rules do the tests name?

Rewrite and reimagine: `python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/trace_rules.py" $system --module <module>` (after step 3 add `--results <the module's result folder>`;
before it nothing has run, so a named rule reads "named, not run"). A rule counts as tested only when a test that ran and passed backs it: the id
(`RULE-017`, or `rule017`) is in the name of a passing test or of its class, or a test file names it on a line not marked skipped or pending and
that file's class passed. A rule only a skipped, pending or failing test names is "named, not run", and one only the notes name is "claimed":
neither is tested. The pack repeats this: read it to know the gaps, and do not fix them here.

## 3 — Run the tests again from clean, and run your own canary

For each module (uplift: the units the baseline covers) delete its build output and runner caches first (`target/`, `build/`,
`bin/`, `obj/`, `__pycache__/`, `.pytest_cache/`, `.jqwik-database`, or the stack's clean command when it works offline) and run
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