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name: Verify and Stop
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description: Verify and Stop proves existing work meets acceptance conditions without expanding scope. Use it for validation-only tasks, completion checks, focused gate runs, and last-mile proof.
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# Verify and Stop

Verify and Stop proves existing work meets acceptance conditions without expanding scope. Use it for validation-only tasks, completion checks, focused gate runs, and last-mile proof.

**Install:**

```bash
npx degit https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/tree/main/skills/verify-and-stop ~/.claude/skills/verify-and-stop
```

## README

# Verify and stop

Translate acceptance conditions into smallest sufficient proof set.

- Reuse still-current results with matching repository state.
- Run focused checks before wider gates.
- Distinguish pass, fail, unavailable, and blocked exactly.
- Do not edit product code unless verification request includes fixes.
- Do not add polish, cleanup, or unrelated tests after criteria pass.

Stop immediately when acceptance proof is complete. Report commands, results, and unresolved risk only.