Code Change Verification

Code Change Verification

Overview

Ensure work is only marked complete after formatting, linting, type checking, and tests pass. Use this skill when changes affect runtime code, tests, or build/test configuration. You can skip it for docs-only or repository metadata unless a user asks for the full stack. This is a post-review final gate: when $implementation-final-review applies, do not invoke the broad stack until its clean-review condition applies to the stable task diff.

Quick start

1. Keep this skill at ./.agents/skills/code-change-verification so it loads automatically for the repository.
2. Codex on macOS/Linux: /usr/bin/env -u OPENAI_API_KEY OPENAI_AGENTS_TEST_IN_CODEX_SANDBOX=1 UV_DEFAULT_INDEX=https://pypi.org/simple bash .agents/skills/code-change-verification/scripts/run.sh.
3. Other macOS/Linux environments: env UV_DEFAULT_INDEX=https://pypi.org/simple bash .agents/skills/code-change-verification/scripts/run.sh.
4. Windows: powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .agents/skills/code-change-verification/scripts/run.ps1.
5. On macOS/Linux, the script runs make format, make lint, make typecheck, and make tests sequentially and stops at the first failure. Parallelism inside each Make target, including pytest workers, is unchanged.
6. The Bash script streams each command's output directly. The Windows wrapper retains parallel lint, typecheck, and test steps with periodic heartbeat updates.
7. If any command fails, fix the issue, rerun the script, and report the failing output.
8. Confirm completion only when all commands succeed with no remaining issues.

Start condition and host capacity

• During iterative review, use only focused tests and a narrowly targeted static check when the changed typing boundary requires one. Defer repository-wide make typecheck and the rest of this complete stack until review is clean.
• Immediately before starting the complete stack, use available read-only task or process evidence to check whether another repository-wide test, typecheck, build, examples runner, or integration command is already active on the same host.
• When concrete contention is visible, continue useful non-heavy work such as review, remediation, evidence preparation, or focused checks, then check again later. Do not create or wait on a repository lock, host-wide mutex, or sentinel file.
• Start automatically once review is clean, the diff is stable, and observable host capacity is available. Do not require a user-triggered finalize message. If host telemetry is unavailable, do not block solely because capacity cannot be measured.

Codex execution policy

Repository verification and all child processes must remain in the normal Codex workspace sandbox. Never request elevated sandbox permissions for the verification wrapper, and never retry the wrapper with broader host access after a failure.

On macOS, tests marked requires_native_macos_sandbox need to start their own sandbox-exec process. The Codex command sets OPENAI_AGENTS_TEST_IN_CODEX_SANDBOX=1, which skips only that marker before nested sandbox creation. All other tests remain enabled. Ordinary local and CI runs do not set this variable and therefore keep the marked tests enabled.

The marked tests run separately on a disposable GitHub-hosted macOS runner. If that trusted runner is unavailable, report the missing native-macOS coverage; do not compensate by weakening the Codex sandbox boundary.

Environment setup

The verification scripts assume repository dependencies are already installed. Do not run make sync as part of every verification pass; use it for a fresh checkout, after dependency files change, or when dependency resolution fails before the checks start.

On Linux, some Python packages with native extensions may require system packages such as libffi-dev, Python development headers, or build tools. If verification cannot start because one of these packages is missing, treat it as a local environment setup issue. Install the missing dependency when possible, or report the failing command and missing dependency in the PR test plan before rerunning verification in a prepared environment.

Manual workflow