# Maintain Verification Skill

Keeps a project's verification skill aligned with source and real evidence.

- Repository: https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip (109885 stars)
- Category: Testing
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill maintain-verification-skill -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill maintain-verification-skill -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill maintain-verification-skill -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill maintain-verification-skill -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Keep a project's verification skill and product/agent access maps aligned with current source and real evidence. Use for /maintain-verification-skill, auditing the verify skill, or reconciling feature and agent access coverage.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Maintain a verification skill and its maps

Keep user journeys and agent access aligned with the app. For Paperclip, read the
[map contract](../../../maps/README.md), the
[feature index](../../../maps/feature-map/README.md), and the
[agent access index](../../../maps/agent-access-map/README.md). These are sibling
maps under `maps/`, with the same area filenames and capability IDs. Preserve
[Poteto's product format](../create-verification-skill/references/feature-map-example/).
Agent companions follow the shared contract; they do not duplicate user recipes.

An API endpoint, an OpenAPI actor label, a declared scenario tool and an admitted
production agent path are different evidence. Verify which permitted agent
surface can actually express an operation. Track source review, operation review
and executed proof separately. A source-only baseline is useful, but cannot
certify complete coverage or live behavior.

## Outcomes

Pick one and report source scope, live scope and remaining gaps separately:

- **clean**, the requested scope got source and live coverage, with no corrections.
- **changed**, proven skill/map/check corrections are ready to review; name any
  access gaps or unexecuted coverage that remains.
- **blocked**, requested coverage or a proven correction could not finish; name
  the unmet prerequisite and evidence captured so far.

A targeted audit covers its named areas; do not present it as a full pass. A full
pass reads every area from source and exercises every reachable feature, plus
relevant permitted-agent and denial paths. Report unreachable prerequisites and
not-run operations rather than silently reducing the scope.

## Edit scope

The rest: https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/blob/HEAD/.agents/skills/maintain-verification-skill/SKILL.md