What this video shows
The workshop presents verification as one layer in a coding-agent system, alongside boundaries, context, skills, execution and delivery. The central idea is to encode requirements that software can check instead of asking a model to remember every rule.
A worked money example keeps values as integer cents and prohibits unsafe float conversions. The speaker shows how repository rules provide context, while tests and hooks decide whether the change can proceed.
Compare the workshop with Anthropic’s Claude Code hooks guide before choosing hook events and exit behavior. Use Learnetto’s coding-agent sandbox guide to set the process boundary around those checks.
What you will learn
- Write important invariants as executable checks.
- Keep rules close to the files and domains they govern.
- Give verification failures back to the agent with exact evidence.
- Require a final human review for security, product intent and trade-offs.
How to apply this safely
- List five defects that would block a release.
- Turn each one into a test, linter rule, type check or policy script.
- Run the checks automatically after edits and before a commit or pull request.
- Record the command, exit status and failing output in the agent’s evidence.
- Test the gate by introducing a known failure and confirming that delivery stops.
Important limitations
- The examples focus on Claude Code conventions, although the verification pattern applies to other coding agents.
- The session demonstrates a design and a sample project rather than comparative failure rates across agents.
- Hooks and model instructions cannot replace process isolation, secret controls or code review.
- A passing deterministic suite only proves the properties that the team encoded.
Sources to check
- Build a Claude Code Verification Harness Workshop published by learnwithparam - AI Engineering Society on November 4, 2026.
- Claude Code hooks guide Anthropic documentation for hook events, matchers and commands.
- Claude Code settings Anthropic documentation for project and user configuration scopes.
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