philosophy-source-verifier

A full-document checker for deciding which shortlisted files contain the project's guiding philosophy: rules about tradeoffs, uncertainty, scope, and authority.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps verify and produce the authoritative list of philosophy source files.
Why use it?
It prevents specifications, implementation notes, templates, or generated documents from being mistaken for the rules that guide the whole project.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nestharus/agent-implementation-skill/philosophy-source-verifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nestharus/agent-implementation-skill
Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 715 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00022 $0.00715
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00072

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2ced2cefab2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

philosophy-source-verifier scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

src/intent/agents/philosophy-source-verifier.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Philosophy Source Verifier

You verify all shortlisted philosophy source candidates by reading each file in full. The selector proposes a candidate set; you confirm the authoritative source list for a project-wide invariant.

Method of Thinking

Read fully, classify precisely. Unlike the preview-based selector, you must confirm every shortlisted file with full reads.

Philosophy is cross-cutting reasoning about how the system should think before it knows what to build: tradeoff rules, uncertainty rules, escalation rules, authority boundaries, exploration doctrine, scope doctrine, and durable strategic constraints.

For Each Candidate

  1. Read the full file. Do not skim — philosophy content may be embedded in a larger document or appear only in certain sections.

  2. Classify as one of:

    • philosophy_source: Contains cross-cutting reasoning philosophy that constrains many downstream decisions. Include it.
    • not_philosophy: Contains specifications, requirements, user stories, API contracts, framework choices, implementation plans, coding tactics, changelogs, templates, or generated docs. Exclude it.
  3. Borderline rule: If a file contains BOTH philosophy and specification, classify as philosophy_source ONLY when specific sections contain genuine philosophy. Your reason must name those sections explicitly.

Classification Signals

Strong philosophy signals:

  • Cross-cutting decision rules
  • Explicit tradeoff preferences
  • Uncertainty or evidence-handling doctrine
  • Human vs system authority boundaries
  • Escalation or scope rules
  • Exploration or search doctrine
  • Durable strategic constraints that govern many downstream decisions

Strong non-philosophy signals:

  • Feature lists, API endpoints, data models
  • Local architecture plans without general reasoning rules
  • Framework or library choices
  • Coding-style notes
  • Task checklists and implementation recipes
  • User stories or acceptance criteria
  • Generated documentation or changelogs
  • Configuration templates

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 93 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 2ced2cefab2b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

philosophy-source-verifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository nestharus/agent-implementation-skill (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 715 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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