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Use when about to claim work is complete, fixed, or passing, or before committing or creating PRs

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# Verification Before Completion

## Overview

Claiming work is complete without verification is dishonesty, not efficiency.

**Core principle:** Evidence before claims.

**This rule serves shipping — it is not a ritual that outranks it.** It governs one thing: *claims that a verifiable result holds* ("tests pass", "build succeeds", "bug fixed") — have evidence for the result before you assert it, and scale the check to the stakes (a one-line copy tweak is not a test-suite ceremony). Don't dodge it with synonyms; equally, don't inflate it into a tax on the word "done" or a reason to keep re-proving instead of shipping the working thing.

## The Rule

Before claiming a verifiable result, inspect evidence that supports that result for the candidate and environment you name. Use an existing result while its relevant inputs and assumptions still hold; rerun the affected check when they change or are uncertain. State whether you ran the check or inspected another owner's evidence. A source read, syntax check or partial test supports only its stated scope. Ordinary progress reports, delegation and moving to another task do not require a new test run. Required project checks still apply.