Verify The Imports
It used something that does not exist
Partial · ChatGPT, Pro · September 27, 2026
What it does
Makes it prove that every piece of outside code it reached for is real, and really works in the version you have installed.
When to use it
The first thirty seconds after any new file appears.
The prompt
Paste as-is
STOP. Check this before you go any further.
For EVERY piece of outside code you just used:
1. Name the package, and the EXACT version written in my
lockfile. Not the newest one. Not the one you remember.
2. Prove the thing you used exists in THAT version, and quote
it from the package's own files.
3. If you cannot prove it, write UNVERIFIED beside it.
Give me a table: what you used | package | version | proved?
If anything says UNVERIFIED, stop and suggest something real
instead. Do not write a fake stand-in, a stub, or a TODO.Ways to use it
- Run it before you read the logic — nothing else catches as much
- Do the same for settings and keys, not just code
- Make it run automatically before every save point
Test log
Each prompt was pasted into a fresh private chat with memory off and graded against pass standards written before the run (all of them, dated).
| Date | Tool | Model | Result | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 27, 2026 | ChatGPT | Pro | Partial | Chat window, no code run: table used the lockfile versions and marked every row UNVERIFIED, including signIn and useFormValidator, but named no real replacement for signIn. |
The pass standard for this prompt: six criteria and an automatic-fail rule, written down on September 27, 2026, before any run. A second version for a reworded prompt was written on September 28, 2026; nothing has been graded against it yet.
Related words
- hallucination — When an AI confidently makes something up: a command, a quote, a setting, a fact that does not exist.
- slopsquatting — Registering a package name that AIs commonly invent, so that when one invents it, what arrives is the attacker's code.