Check Work

Check Work is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by kharmanskyi in open-steps.

211 stars55 forkson kharmanskyi/open-stepsAdded 2026/09/05+56% in starsRepository updated 2026/09/03

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Install Check Work

Copy Check Work into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/kharmanskyi/open-steps/tree/main/skills/os-check-work ~/.claude/skills/os-check-work

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/kharmanskyi/open-steps.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/os-check-work/SKILL.md in kharmanskyi/open-steps
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/os-check-work
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1662 skills

What Check Work does

Check Work verifies another session’s reported progress against machine state and names any gaps. Use it when accepting finished work, checking other sessions, or deciding whether it is ready to merge.

Check Work is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Check Work comes from a repository tagged agent-skill, agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

os-check-work

You are the receiving party: another session says it finished, and your job is to find out whether that is true. Reports run optimistic - they are written by whoever did the work. Triggers live in the description above; one more is taking over work you did not do.

Language

Write in the language the user speaks in this session, detected from the conversation. Code, file names and identifiers stay English.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Check Work

What else does kharmanskyi publish alongside Check Work?
Check Work is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from kharmanskyi/open-steps, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ask Simple, Done Or Not and Say Simple. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Check Work does, and is maintained by kharmanskyi in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the kharmanskyi/open-steps page.
How does Check Work compare to other Quality skills?
Check Work ranks #1430 by stars among the 1662 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Check Work against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.