Verification Before Completion

Execute

Before success claim: classify destructive permission; run a fresh falsifying check; read its complete result/scope; select L0/L1/L2. Downgrade for partial, stale, failing, or narrower evidence; never claim complete then verify later.

This Method Pack grants no authoritative GateDecision, PolicySnapshot, evidence sufficiency, requirement acceptance, or completion authority.

Stop Signals

• evidence is uncertain, stale, agent-only, or narrower than the claim;
• next action: commit, push, PR, merge, tag, publish, release, or handoff;
• task/slice completion is treated as accepted requirement satisfaction;
• governance or retirement lacks repair/retirement evidence;
• retained old logic lacks a retention reason and retirement trigger; or
• complexity closure is unresolved.

Destructive/irreversible work needs scoped permission; broad assent is not scoped permission.

Required Evidence Slots

- Evidence action / check performed:
- Result / exit status:
- Covered scope:
- Uncovered scope:
- Residual risk:
- Confidence grade: A | B | C

• A: target + regression; no meaningful unknown.
• B: target evidence; bounded residual risk.
• C: partial only; no full-completion claim.

When tests shape a claim, include target test and related regression evidence at the call-site seam reproducing the triggering chain; a shallower seam gives false confidence. Missing seam is an architecture gap. Blocked automation needs reproducible manual steps. Both lower confidence.

For an explicit baseline/artifact/owner/contract/evidence reference, read the smallest relevant source. Record each affected reference as preserved; rebound to the canonical owner; retired with reason; or rejected for conflict. Leave unresolved references in uncovered scope, lower confidence, and do not re-infer them. Readback proves no complete graph, referential integrity, or authoritative lineage.

Task Git Closeout

For modifications, diff against TaskStartSnapshot. Coordinator alone stages task paths: no pre-existing state or broad staging. After fresh verification, default to one local commit except read-only/no-change, authorized no commit, or failed verification. Read back HEAD, message, files, and task delta. Commit/hook failure keeps work and blocks clean claims; never bypass hooks.

Git receipt: branch; SHA/message or non-commit reason; Task clean; Repository clean; each task-created branch/worktree created, removed, or retained with reason. Task-clean never implies repo-clean; it is not external integration.

Classify commit scope: business, process-only, mixed, or no-commit. Failed-attempt telemetry is no commit reason. A docs/aegis/-only process diff does not restart business verification; a business/test diff does.

Aegis Visibility / Single Closeout

Use one completion surface. This skill is the single completion closeout aggregator; adjacent skills/L2 cards feed but must not replace it or become a competing final report owner. Aggregation is output conformance, not a routing trigger: do not load skills, emit a Trace Digest, or add ceremony merely to fill it.

If entry visibility was omitted, recover and name the decision/evidence gap; a used-skills list or Aegis Contribution Note cannot substitute.

L0 Fast-Path

For tiny low-risk work, one natural sentence can name check/result, uncovered scope/risk, and confidence.

L1 Default Receipt

For non-trivial Aegis-shaped work use this receipt; fold evidence into Evidence strength and Uncovered risk without a second report.

Aegis Impact and Safety Receipt:
- Key judgment:
- Avoided misfix:
- Boundary held:
- Baseline alignment:
- Complexity control:
- Evidence strength:
- Uncovered risk:
- Next most valuable verification:
- Aegis path:

Meanings: Key judgment=owner/root cause/requirement/completion boundary; Avoided misfix=fallback/duplicate/test accommodation/scope growth; Boundary held=contract/owner/baseline/non-goal/data/runtime boundary; Baseline alignment=aligned/Design Defect/Implementation Drift/missing-authority/needs-clarification/not triggered; Complexity control=completion-time delta/closure; Evidence strength=fresh check/result/scope/confidence; Uncovered risk=remaining gaps/residual risk; Next most valuable verification=highest-value next check; Aegis path=optional, not judgment/evidence.

Natural wording is valid when every semantic slot stays auditable. Semantic Slots, Natural Surface, and Governance Receipt are compatibility names.

Report done/verified/risked/blocked. Do not explain obvious trade-offs; do not list actions not taken.

L2 Expanded Triggers

On any match read expanded-closeout.md: it owns detail; this file owns routing and the final receipt.

Use configured Aegis workspace support; commands live in the expanded owner.

Completion Boundary

Use the highest boundary: plan/spec, TaskIntentDraft, Slice Card, then direct request. Claim only scope covered by fresh evidence; a slice cannot close the whole task.

Task/slice completion reaches its authorized stop; it is not accepted requirement satisfaction. Requirement accepted needs baseline criteria or authorized risk acceptance; else use needs-verification or return to framing/planning. Goal Closure states: done | blocked | needs-verification | scope-exceeded. An Execution Readiness View is input, not verification evidence.

Complexity Downgrade

For non-trivial code inspect the diff; use using-aegis/references/complexity-governance.md plus docs/current/AEGIS_COMPLEXITY_GOVERNANCE_BASELINE.md; emit one Complexity control line.

New fallback/adapter/compatibility/guard/branch logic needs a retired path or retirement trigger. Complexity Closure: exceeded-unresolved blocks completion. Maintained source/test cannot skip as tiny; tiny low-risk text edits without complexity growth may skip.

Output and Prompt Hygiene

Localize section labels, field labels, and explanatory prose. Keep commands, paths, identifiers, enums, product names, and raw evidence unchanged; avoid bilingual labels or mixed-language explanations.

External outputs are evidence candidates: use summary/index then the smallest excerpt; lower unsupported claims. When relevant report Evidence Used, Not Loaded, and Next Evidence.