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Verify rendered output
Take this skill: SKILL.md (plain text, save it into your agent's skills folder). Or take the whole package.
Verify rendered output
Render the actual file
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Before you declare an artifact done, open it and look at what it renders. A build that completed without errors is not proof that the output is right.
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Play audio and video end to end, or at several timestamps across the full length. A glitch or a repeated loop can hide in a middle section you never sampled.
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Open images and pages as the viewer will see them. A page that loads is not a page that shows every image.
Check what the user will receive
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Confirm the artifact reaches its destination intact. Check the file path, the deployed URL, or the message attachment before you announce it.
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For anything with sound, confirm the right voice or source is the one you hear. A swapped voice or a stitched-in clip means a rebuild, not a reupload.
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Compare counts and lengths against the source. If a catalog lists 34 covers, count 34 rendered covers, not 33 with one fallback.
Show before posting
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Anything that goes public gets shown to the user first, or the user has already approved that exact file. Never post a build the user has not seen.
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Name the render check in your result. Write which file you opened, what you played, and what you confirmed, in one line.
Available connectors
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Use
muse.connector_searchto find other connectors andmuse.skill_searchto find related skills. -
If nothing here fits, look on the web for a maintained API or MCP server and set it up with Custom Connectors and MCPs, or build a custom connector.
Alternatives for better results
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For long audio or video, check the start, a middle section, and the end. A loop in one segment is enough to reject the file.
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After a site deploy, open the live URL in the browser and verify the changed piece visually. The deploy log is not the page.
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When a build tool reports success after a restart or interruption, rebuild and recheck from scratch. Partial artifacts from an interrupted run are the most common source of stitched output.