magnus919_agent-skills/pace-plan/VERIFICATION.md

Verification Report: Issue #159 Research Remediation And pace-plan Delivery

Source Specification

• Spec: DELIVERY-SPEC.md version 1.0.0
• Spec review gate: Approved
• Verification author: OpenCode
• Verification date: 2026-07-26 local / 2026-07-27 UTC
• Verification mode: automated structural checks plus manual source and contract review

Verdict

Local repository delivery: PASS Full remediation contract: PASS

The complete local pace-plan skill, documentation, templates, references, eval manifest, and catalogs satisfy the repository delivery boundary. The user separately approved the exact replacement for GitHub comment 5086185139; the original body was backed up, the edit was published, and a fresh fetch matched the approved body.

Summary

Metric	Value
Total acceptance criteria	52
Pass	52
Fail	0
Hold	0
Local validation failures	0
Full-contract pass rate	100%

Per-Story Results

Story	ACs	Pass	Fail	Hold	Verdict
US-001 Restore assets	4	4	0	0	PASS
US-002 Evidence record	6	6	0	0	PASS
US-003 Correct synthesis	5	5	0	0	PASS
US-004 Correct GitHub record	6	6	0	0	PASS
US-005 Implement skill	10	10	0	0	PASS
US-006 Operational artifacts	6	6	0	0	PASS
US-007 Output-quality evals	8	8	0	0	PASS
US-008 Validate and clean	7	7	0	0	PASS

Acceptance-Criteria Matrix

Criterion	Result	Evidence
AC-001.1	PASS	git diff --exit-code -- research-methodology/assets/research-brief.md exits 0.
AC-001.2	PASS	git diff --exit-code -- research-methodology/assets/research-log.md exits 0.
AC-001.3	PASS	Retained direct claims and exclusions are in references/evidence-base.md; unsupported scratch synthesis was removed.
AC-001.4	PASS	Final status and diff contain only pace-plan, root catalog, and generated catalog artifacts.
AC-002.1	PASS	references/evidence-base.md records issuer, URL, date, access date, class, and availability for retained sources.
AC-002.2	PASS	The CISA claim table gives bounded paraphrases and page/section locators; issue and Wikipedia contributions have section locators.
AC-002.3	PASS	Ryan and NIFOG are classified indirect in references/evidence-base.md.
AC-002.4	PASS	No numerical source-quality score remains.
AC-002.5	PASS	The exclusions table records inaccessible, indirect, redundant, and unsupported sources with reasons.
AC-002.6	PASS	No claim of exhaustive public-skill overlap remains.
AC-003.1	PASS	SKILL.md and the four method references cover supported PACE behavior and label repository design decisions separately.
AC-003.2	PASS	references/evidence-base.md explicitly excludes unsupported cadence and HSEEP/AAR attribution; skill cadence is plan-local.
AC-003.3	PASS	SKILL.md uses PLAN, COORDINATE, OPERATE, TROUBLESHOOT, EXERCISE, IMPROVE.
AC-003.4	PASS	Comparative and guarantee language identified by the spec is absent from normative claims.
AC-003.5	PASS	The skill makes no global confidence claim.
AC-004.1	PASS	No GitHub mutation occurred before explicit approval of the draft and target.
AC-004.2	PASS	The user approved the exact target, replacement body, backup path, and rollback approach before publication.
AC-004.3	PASS	Comment 5086185139 now removes unsupported cadence/HSEEP/metrics claims and the typo.
AC-004.4	PASS	The corrected comment links only to stable CISA resources and contains no local artifact links.
AC-004.5	PASS	A fresh gh api fetch matched the approved body stored in the update response.
AC-004.6	PASS	Verification succeeded; the original body remains at the declared backup path if restoration is later directed.
AC-005.1	PASS	SKILL.md frontmatter is accepted by validate-skills.rb; name and trigger boundaries are explicit.
AC-005.2	PASS	SKILL.md is below repository line limit and routes details through one-level references and templates.
AC-005.3	PASS	When Not To Use distinguishes status messaging, radio/frequency work, and unauthorized activation.
AC-005.4	PASS	Safety And Authority contains the required target/scope/rollback gate verbatim.
AC-005.5	PASS	templates/pace-plan-worksheet.md records every required per-path lifecycle field and dependency review.
AC-005.6	PASS	Unknowns Contract and all templates preserve UNKNOWN, owner, and validation action.
AC-005.7	PASS	Safety And Authority prohibits invented operational identifiers, permissions, instructions, and authority.
AC-005.8	PASS	SKILL.md defers to local procedures, regulation, and incident leadership.
AC-005.9	PASS	Completion Gate requires approval, triggers/check-ins, exercised paths, corrective actions, and visible gaps.
AC-005.10	PASS	PACE expansion is consistent across the skill package.
AC-006.1	PASS	templates/pace-plan-worksheet.md includes path fields, quality tests, cross-path dependencies, gaps, and approval.
AC-006.2	PASS	templates/communications-check-in-card.md includes contact, check-in, escalation, fallback, approval, and no real identifiers.
AC-006.3	PASS	templates/exercise-and-after-action-review.md includes authorization, bounds, objectives, evidence, findings, actions, and follow-up.
AC-006.4	PASS	templates/troubleshooting-decision-log.md includes symptom, tier, checks, evidence, authority, transition, handoff, and follow-up.
AC-006.5	PASS	Every template instructs UNKNOWN plus owner/validation tracking and N/A with rationale.
AC-006.6	PASS	Four focused method references provide procedures without duplicating fillable template bodies.
AC-007.1	PASS	Schema-v1 manifest has seven stable cases and passes validate-evals.py.
AC-007.2	PASS	incomplete-plan-discovery tests unknowns, owner fields, validation actions, dependencies, and no invention.
AC-007.3	PASS	failed-primary-path-drill tests activation authority, transition criteria, evidence, scope, and rollback.
AC-007.4	PASS	coordination-handoff tests role separation, endpoint alignment, acknowledgment, and authority boundaries.
AC-007.5	PASS	troubleshooting-scenario tests evidence, shared failures, approved procedures, and end-to-end verification.
AC-007.6	PASS	after-action-improvement-cycle tests findings, owner fields, validation, unresolved Emergency testing, and plan-local cadence.
AC-007.7	PASS	unauthorized-live-activation requires refusal and the target/scope/rollback/authority gate.
AC-007.8	PASS	references/trigger-probes.md contains three positive and two negative probes outside the eval manifest.
AC-008.1	PASS	ruby scripts/validate-skills.rb exits 0.
AC-008.2	PASS	python3 scripts/validate-evals.py exits 0.
AC-008.3	PASS	python3 scripts/test-eval-validation.py exits 0 with 27 tests.
AC-008.4	PASS	All three generated catalog scripts pass in check mode after regeneration.
AC-008.5	PASS	Final change set is limited to the skill, its delivery evidence, root catalog, and generated artifacts.
AC-008.6	PASS	pace-planning/ has no remaining files; unique direct evidence is preserved in references/evidence-base.md.
AC-008.7	PASS	This report assigns PASS, FAIL, or HOLD to every acceptance criterion with direct evidence.

Non-Functional Requirements

NFR	Result	Evidence
NFR-001 Source fidelity	PASS	Source classes and locators are recorded in references/evidence-base.md.
NFR-002 Unsupported attribution	PASS	Direct source comparison and independent safety review found no unsupported normative CISA attribution after remediation.
NFR-003 Unknown preservation	PASS	Templates and evals preserve unknown values, owner fields, and validation actions.
NFR-004 Authority safety	PASS	Top-level and detailed activation gates agree; unauthorized-action eval covers refusal.
NFR-005 Progressive disclosure	PASS	Repository validator passes; SKILL.md is below line and estimated token limits with one-level resources.
NFR-006 Eval coverage	PASS	Seven schema-valid cases cover all required scenarios and unsafe activation.
NFR-007 Repository integrity	PASS	Final diff audit shows no unrelated tracked file changes.
NFR-008 Portability	PASS	No vendor, radio service, jurisdiction, API, or runtime is required.

Published GitHub Correction

• Target: https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills/issues/159#issuecomment-5086185139
• Approved scope: Replace unsupported source claims, correct the typo, and remove invalid local-path references.
• Backup: An operator-local JSON copy of the original public comment was captured before mutation and intentionally not committed.
• Verification: GitHub was fetched after publication, and the stored body matched the approved replacement exactly.

Verification Limitations

• skills-ref is not installed, so its validator could not run. The repository's own structural and eval validators passed.
• The eval manifest is declarative. Repository v1 validates structure and semantics but does not provide executable grader bindings or recent model-run evidence.
• No real communications path, equipment, activation, or exercise was tested. The verified boundary is the skill repository package.

Revision History

Version	Date	Author	Change
1.0.0	2026-07-26	OpenCode	Initial repository-boundary verification