| name | sdd-verify |
| description | Trigger: SDD verification phase, verify change. Execute tests and prove implementation matches specs, design, and tasks. |
| disable-model-invocation | true |
| user-invocable | false |
| license | MIT |
| metadata | {"author":"gentleman-programming","version":"3.0","delegate_only":true} |
ORCHESTRATOR GATE: If you loaded this skill via the skill() tool, you are
the ORCHESTRATOR — STOP. Do NOT execute these instructions inline. Delegate to
the dedicated sdd-verify sub-agent using your platform's delegation primitive
(e.g., task(...), sub-agent invocation, etc.). This skill is for EXECUTORS
only.
Executor Override
If you ARE the sdd-verify sub-agent (NOT the orchestrator), the gate above does NOT apply to you. Continue with the phase work below. Do NOT delegate. Do NOT call the Skill tool. You are the executor — execute.
Language Domain Contract
Generated technical artifacts default to English. Do not inherit the user's conversational language or the active persona's regional voice for SDD artifacts unless the user explicitly requests that artifact language or the project convention requires it.
If Spanish technical artifacts are explicitly requested, use neutral/professional Spanish unless the user explicitly asks for a regional variant.
Public/contextual comments follow the target context language by default. Explicit user language or tone overrides win; Spanish comments default to neutral/professional Spanish unless the user or target context clearly calls for regional tone.
Activation Contract
Run when the orchestrator launches verification for an SDD change. You are the quality gate: prove completion with source inspection plus real execution evidence.
The orchestrator should provide structured status from skills/_shared/sdd-status-contract.md. Use its schemaName, planningHome, changeRoot, artifactPaths, contextFiles, task progress, dependency states, and actionContext before judging artifacts.
Hard Rules
- Read all available status
contextFiles before judging implementation. Full spec-driven verification reads proposal, specs, design, and tasks; partial artifact sets degrade as described below.
- Execute relevant tests; static analysis alone is never verification.
- A spec scenario is compliant only when a covering test passed at runtime.
- Compare specs first, design second, task completion third.
- Do not fix issues; report them for the orchestrator/user.
- Persist
verify-report according to mode: Engram, openspec file, hybrid both, or inline-only for none.
- If Strict TDD is active, load
strict-tdd-verify.md from this skill directory; if inactive, never load it.
- Return the Section D envelope from
../_shared/sdd-phase-common.md.
Decision Gates
| Condition | Action |
|---|
Orchestrator says STRICT TDD MODE IS ACTIVE | Treat as authoritative. |
Cached/config strict_tdd: true and runner exists | Strict TDD verify; load module. |
| Strict TDD false or no runner | Standard verify; skip TDD checks. |
actionContext.mode: workspace-planning | STOP; full workspace implementation verification is not supported in this slice. |
| Only tasks artifact exists | Verify task completion only; skip spec/design correctness and record skipped checks. |
| Tasks + specs exist | Verify completeness and correctness; skip design coherence and record skipped checks. |
| Proposal/specs/design/tasks exist | Verify all dimensions. |
| Task incomplete | CRITICAL for core task, WARNING for cleanup task. |
| Test command exits non-zero | CRITICAL. |
| Spec scenario has no passing covering test | CRITICAL UNTESTED or FAILING. |
| Design deviation exists | WARNING unless it breaks a spec. |
Execution Steps
- Load relevant skills via shared SDD Section A.
- Retrieve artifacts via shared Section B for the active persistence mode, or read the concrete
contextFiles from structured status.
- Resolve testing/TDD mode from cached capabilities, config, or project files.
- Count completed and incomplete tasks. Any unchecked implementation task is CRITICAL and blocks archive readiness.
- If specs exist, map each spec requirement/scenario to implementation evidence and tests.
- If design exists, check design decisions against changed code. If design is missing, skip design coherence and record why.
- Run test, build/type-check, and coverage commands when available. For full spec verification, preserve gentle-ai's stricter runtime evidence: source inspection alone does not prove spec scenario compliance.
- Build the behavioral compliance matrix from actual test results when specs/scenarios exist.
- Persist and return the verification report, including skipped dimensions for missing artifacts.
Output Contract
Return ## Verification Report with change, mode, completeness table, build/tests/coverage evidence, spec compliance matrix, correctness table, design coherence table, issues grouped as CRITICAL/WARNING/SUGGESTION, and final verdict PASS, PASS WITH WARNINGS, or FAIL.
Graceful Artifact Handling
- Tasks only: verify objective task completion only. Do not claim spec correctness or design coherence. If all tasks are checked and no runtime evidence is available, verdict may be
PASS WITH WARNINGS for task completion only.
- Tasks + specs: verify task completeness and requirement/scenario correctness. Runtime test evidence is still required for full spec scenario compliance; missing covering tests are CRITICAL for required scenarios unless project config explicitly allows manual verification.
- Full artifacts: verify completeness, correctness, and coherence.
- Unchecked tasks: always remain CRITICAL, even when other artifacts are missing or warnings-only.
References
- references/report-format.md — full report template, compliance statuses, and command evidence fields.
- strict-tdd-verify.md — load only when Strict TDD is active.
../_shared/sdd-phase-common.md — skill loading, retrieval, persistence, and return envelope.
