Transform Requirements to Pseudo-Code

A command that turns a vague or lengthy software requirement into structured pseudo-code with project-aware file paths and implementation details. It also checks for missing security, error handling, timeouts, and logging requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to specify features such as login or API changes, identify the files involved, define errors and security rules, and prepare a specification for test-driven development, where tests guide the implementation.
Why use it?
It makes an idea precise enough to implement and reveals important details that a short natural-language request may omit.

Command

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 commands/eladariel/pseudo-code-prompting-plugin/transform
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EladAriel/pseudo-code-prompting-plugin
Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 923 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 $0.00030 $0.00923
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00462
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00092

Measured yesterday against content hash 3735bce73d1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Transform Requirements to Pseudo-Code 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 yesterday.

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.

commands/transform.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Transform Requirements to Pseudo-Code

This command runs a 6-step pipeline:

  1. Detect Tech Stack - Identifies your project type (Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, Java)
  2. Compress (if needed) - Auto-compresses verbose requirements to 80% while preserving technical details
  3. Transform to Pseudo-Code - Converts natural language to PROMPTCONVERTER-style function notation
  4. Validate Completeness - Checks for missing security, error handling, timeouts, logging
  5. Optimize - Adds standard parameters (timeouts, retry logic, error mappings, logging)
  6. Bridge to cc10x - Saves pseudo-code to specification and offers TDD integration

Usage

Simply say:

Transform to pseudocode: Add OAuth with Google and GitHub providers. Users should be able to log in via OAuth, have tokens automatically refresh, be logged out after 24 hours, and get rate limited to 10 login attempts per hour.

What You Get

✓ Production-ready pseudo-code with all parameters specified ✓ Architecture-aware file paths for your tech stack ✓ Complete error handling defined ✓ Security requirements called out ✓ Timeouts, retry logic, caching all included ✓ Option to auto-inject into cc10x for TDD workflow

Output Example

implement_oauth_authentication(
  providers=["google", "github"],
  token_type="jwt",
  access_token_ttl="15m",
  refresh_token_enabled=true,
  session_timeout="24h",
  rate_limiting={
    "login_attempts": "10/1h",
    "token_refresh": "30/1h"
  },
  target_files=["src/auth/oauth.ts", "src/auth/strategies/", "src/middlewares/auth.ts"],
  error_handling={
    "invalid_provider": 400,
    "invalid_code": 400,
    "token_expired": 401,
    "invalid_refresh_token": 401,
    "insufficient_scope": 403
  },
  security={
    "validate_redirect_uri": true,
    "use_pkce": true,
    "secure_cookie": true,
    "http_only": true,
    "same_site": "strict"
  },
  validation={
    "validate_email_format": true,
    "validate_provider_response": true
  },
  logging={
    "log_login_attempts": true,
    "log_token_operations": true,
    "log_errors": true
  },
  timeout="5s",
  retry={"max_attempts": 3, "backoff": "exponential"},
  cache={"ttl": "5m", "key": "oauth_state"}
)

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. yesterday First seen · 107 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 3735bce73d1a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Transform Requirements to Pseudo-Code is a command published in the GitHub repository EladAriel/pseudo-code-prompting-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 923 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.