# check

Two modes to gate a PR: verify runs the real app and proves it meets the spec, review runs a senior code review with a fresh model. Both are read-only and never edit code.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 4400 installs · ★ 1550
- Author: jsmastery-pro
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/jsmastery-pro/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/check/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-08-09
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/jsmastery-pro-check

## What it does

check stops merges at the gate. The verify mode runs the real app and watches the change behave: every acceptance criterion met, every specced surface built. This catches what green tests never reveal. The review mode is a senior code review on a different model—one that did not write the code—so it skips the blind spots the author carries. Findings land in `docs/reviews/`, ranked by severity.

Both modes read only: verify points failures at `/debug` or `/develop`, review reports findings to fix. The usual flow is verify right after `/develop`, then review before a PR. Run both in one call, and verify goes first.

Runs on macOS, Linux, or Windows. Needs only git. Portability flows through portable shell snippets and your agent's own file, process, and browser tools.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/skills --skill check -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/check/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/check/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/skills --skill check -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/check/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/skills --skill check -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/check/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install jsmastery-pro/skills check
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/check/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/skills --skill check -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/jsmastery-pro/skills --path skills/check
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/check/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/skills --skill check -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/jsmastery-pro/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/check/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- run the app and prove it works against the spec
- get a code review from a fresh model before a PR
- catch problems tests miss
- rank issues by severity after development
- confirm every acceptance criterion is met

## Example prompts
- /check verify auth — runs the app and checks if auth works
- /check review — fresh model reviews the diff, findings go to docs/reviews/
- /check both — verify first, then review

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: check
allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Agent
argument-hint: [verify | review]
description: "Confirm a change before merge. `/check verify` drives the real app to prove behavior against the spec (every acceptance criterion met, every surface built). `/check review` runs a senior code review on a fresh model, one that did not write the code. Verify after /develop, review before a PR. Writes to docs/reviews/, never edits code."
---

## Output style (plain words, no dashes, no hyphens)

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Write everything this skill produces, files and messages alike, in plain simple language. Talk to the reader as `you`, warm and direct like a colleague, and present every step as a recommendation they may run or skip, never an order. Keep technical terms that carry real meaning; explain each in plain words. Never use a dash or a hyphen as punctuation: no em dash, no en dash, and no hyphenated compounds. Write `read only`, not `read-only`. Say it in simple words, or reword the sentence. Code, file paths, command flags, and values other skills match on keep their hyphens. Use short sentences, commas, or parentheses. Clear beats clever.
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## What this skill does

`/check` is the gate before merge. Two modes, separate jobs, usually both, verify first:

- **`verify`** (runtime proof): run the real app and watch the change behave. Proves it works and conforms to the spec (every acceptance criterion met, every specced surface built), which green tests never reveal. Read only on code, no durable files, main thread. Typically after `/develop`.
- **`review`** (fresh model code review): a senior read of the diff on a **different model than wrote the code** (a model reviewing its own output shares its blind spots). Writes findings ranked by severity to `docs/reviews/`. Read only. Typically before a PR.

Neither mode edits code. `verify` points failures at `/debug` or `/develop`; `review` reports findings to fix.

## Pick the mode (route before doing anything else)

First step, before reading any mode file or touching the repo. Look at what followed `/check`:

- **Starts with `verify` (or `run`)** → read `modes/verify.md`, follow it fully. Pass remaining arguments (feature name, scope) through.
- **Starts with `review`** → read `modes/review.md`, follow it fully. Pass the steering through unchanged (e.g. `/check review with opus`, `/check review uncommitted`).
- **No mode word, or ambiguous** (bare `/check`, or a feature name with no mode like `/check auth`) → do NOT guess, do NOT default. Show the two options as a plain text panel and **stop and wait** for the engineer's choice.

**How to present the choice (plain text, works on every agent, no interactive modal):**

Print exactly this, then stop and wait. Do not assume `verify` until they answer. Route on their typed word (`verify` / `review` / `both`).

```
Which check do you want to run? Type one:
  • verify  run the real app and prove the change works against its spec (usually right after /develop)
  • review  a fresh model senior read of the diff, ranked findings (usually right before a PR)
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