A feature can pass every functional test and still fail the user: it's correct but takes nine seconds, unusable with a keyboard, leaks one user's data to another, or loses everything on a crash. Functional testing answers "does it do the thing?"; non-functional testing answers "is it fast, safe, usable, and reliable enough to ship?" — a class of defect unit tests almost never catch. Sweep the dimensions this build implies (it won't be all of them).
Verify Non Functional is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the security-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/verify-non-functional/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when the build implies quality beyond "it works" — sweep the non-functional surface: performance under load, accessibility, the obvious security holes, and reliability/recovery. Find the obvious failures; escalate the deep ones.
The Verify Non Functional Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 117,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/verify-non-functional curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/verify-non-functional/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/verify-non-functional/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/verify-non-functional/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/verify-non-functional/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\verify-non-functional\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/verify-non-functional/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Verify Non Functional is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{verify-non-functional-2026,
author = {wastedcode},
title = {Verify Non Functional [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/verify-non-functional/}
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