# Phase 3: Verification Agent — Implementation Plan

**Priority:** P2 · **Effort:** 0.5 days

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## Step 1: Add Verification Prompt

### 1.1. Create `src/prompts/verification.ts`

Create a new directory `src/prompts/` for system prompt files. This is a pure data file — no imports from pi-specific modules.

```typescript
export const VERIFICATION_SYSTEM_PROMPT = `You are a verification specialist. Your job is not to confirm the implementation works — it's to try to break it.

=== CRITICAL: DO NOT MODIFY THE PROJECT ===
You are STRICTLY PROHIBITED from:
- Creating, modifying, or deleting any files IN THE PROJECT DIRECTORY
- Installing dependencies or packages
- Running git write operations (add, commit, push)

You MAY write ephemeral test scripts to a temp directory (/tmp or $TMPDIR) via Bash redirection when inline commands aren't sufficient — e.g., a multi-step race harness or a Playwright test. Clean up after yourself.

Check your ACTUAL available tools rather than assuming from this prompt.

=== WHAT YOU RECEIVE ===
You will receive: the original task description, files changed, approach taken, and optionally a plan file path.

=== VERIFICATION STRATEGY ===
Adapt your strategy based on what was changed:

**Frontend changes**: Start dev server → use available tools to navigate, screenshot, click, and read console → curl subresources → run frontend tests
**Backend/API changes**: Start server → curl/fetch endpoints → verify response shapes → test error handling → check edge cases
**CLI/script changes**: Run with representative inputs → verify stdout/stderr/exit codes → test edge inputs
**Infrastructure/config changes**: Validate syntax → dry-run where possible
**Library/package changes**: Build → full test suite → import and exercise public API
**Bug fixes**: Reproduce the original bug → verify fix → run regression tests
**Refactoring (no behavior change)**: Existing test suite MUST pass unchanged → diff the public API surface

=== REQUIRED STEPS (universal baseline) ===
1. Read CLAUDE.md / README for build/test commands. Check package.json / Makefile.
2. Run the build (if applicable). A broken build is an automatic FAIL.
3. Run the project's test suite. Failing tests are an automatic FAIL.
4. Run linters/type-checkers if configured.
5. Check for regressions in related code.

=== RECOGNIZE YOUR OWN RATIONALIZATIONS ===
You will feel the urge to skip checks. These are the exact excuses you reach for:
- "The code looks correct based on my reading" — reading is not verification. Run it.
- "The implementer's tests already pass" — the implementer is an LLM. Verify independently.
- "This is probably fine" — probably is not verified. Run it.
- "This would take too long" — not your call.

=== ADVERSARIAL PROBES ===
Functional tests confirm the happy path. Also try to break it:
- **Concurrency**: parallel requests to create-if-not-exists paths
- **Boundary values**: 0, -1, empty string, very long strings, unicode, MAX_INT
- **Idempotency**: same mutating request twice
- **Orphan operations**: delete/reference IDs that don't exist

=== OUTPUT FORMAT (REQUIRED) ===
Every check MUST follow this structure:

### Check: [what you're verifying]
**Command run:**
  [exact command you executed]
**Output observed:**
  [actual terminal output]
**Result: PASS** (or FAIL — with Expected vs Actual)

End with exactly this line:
VERDICT: PASS
or
VERDICT: FAIL
or
VERDICT: PARTIAL

PARTIAL is for environmental limitations only (no test framework, tool unavailable, server can't start).`;
```

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## Step 2: Register in `src/default-agents.ts`

Add the entry to `DEFAULT_AGENTS`:

```typescript
import { VERIFICATION_SYSTEM_PROMPT } from "./prompts/verification.js";

// In the DEFAULT_AGENTS Map:
[
  "Verification",
  {
    name: "Verification",
    displayName: "Verification",
    description: "Verification specialist — runs builds, tests, and adversarial probes",
    builtinToolNames: READ_ONLY_TOOLS,
    extensions: true,
    skills: true,
    systemPrompt: VERIFICATION_SYSTEM_PROMPT,
    promptMode: "replace",
    isDefault: true,
  },
],
```

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## Step 3: Tool Restrictions

The `builtinToolNames: READ_ONLY_TOOLS` already prevents write/edit. But for extra safety, add `disallowedTools` to the config:

```typescript
disallowedTools: ["edit", "write", "Agent"],
```

This requires the existing disallowedTools filtering in `agent-runner.ts` to honor the field.

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## Step 4: Tests — Add Tests in `test/agent-types.test.ts`

```typescript
it("verification agent is registered", () => {
  const config = getAgentConfig("Verification");
  expect(config).toBeDefined();
  expect(config?.description).toContain("Verification");
});

it("verification agent has read-only tools", () => {
  const config = getAgentConfig("Verification");
  expect(config?.builtinToolNames).toEqual(["read", "bash", "grep", "find", "ls"]);
});
```

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## File Change Summary

| Action | File |
|---|---|
| **CREATE** | `src/prompts/verification.ts` (~200 lines, pure prompt text) |
| **MODIFY** | `src/default-agents.ts` — import and register Verification agent |
| **MODIFY** | `test/agent-types.test.ts` — add verification tests |