aoa-engineering-shape

aoa-engineering-shape is a skill for Codex from 8Dionysus/aoa-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (769 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for separating one software responsibility from unrelated rules, coordination code, or concrete dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define bounded contexts, core rules, or port-and-adapter boundaries around overloaded code, repeated logic, or leaking dependencies.
Why use it?
It clarifies who owns each part of a system and creates a smaller boundary before implementation when responsibilities are tangled.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to define bounded contexts, core rules, or port-and-adapter boundaries around overloaded code, repeated logic, or leaking dependencies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/8dionysus/aoa-skills/aoa-engineering-shape
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 8Dionysus/aoa-skills --skill aoa-engineering-shape
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/8Dionysus/aoa-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 769 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00076 $0.00769
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00385
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00077

Measured 10d ago against content hash fbf585d3f169, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aoa-engineering-shape 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 10d 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.

skills/core/engineering/aoa-engineering-shape/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

aoa-engineering-shape

Intent

Choose one shaping lens and return the smallest target-bound responsibility boundary without installing an architecture framework by default.

Trigger boundary

Use this skill when:

  • domain responsibilities are overloaded, stable rules are mixed with glue, or a concrete dependency leaks across a meaningful seam

Do not use this skill when:

  • the real task is source authority, decision history, verification, an ordinary edit, or implementation after the boundary is already explicit

Inputs

  • target system or code slice, target-specific owner surfaces, current responsibilities
  • concrete ambiguity, repeated rule, or leaking dependency

Outputs

  • exactly one typed mode result with boundary, interfaces, owner or unresolved owner edge, migration edge, verification need, unresolved question, and stop line

Procedure

  1. Read references/contract.yaml and choose exactly one mode:

    Mode Select when Required procedure
    contexts Meanings, responsibilities, owners, or dual postures are overloaded. references/contexts.md
    core A stable rule is mixed with loading, rendering, orchestration, or infrastructure. references/core.md
    port-adapter A concrete database, API, filesystem, CLI, provider, or runtime detail leaks inward. references/port-adapter.md
  2. Read the selected reference completely. Do not load the other mode procedures merely because their vocabulary appears nearby.

  3. Bind owner only from a declaration that governs the target slice. An unrelated authored surface, sibling route, recent file, or generated index cannot supply the target owner. Keep owner: unresolved when that binding is missing; never borrow a plausible owner.

  4. Execute only the selected procedure. If another shaping mode is materially necessary, finish the upstream result and hand its typed output to a later task-local DAG node instead of blending modes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 88 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A fbf585d3f169

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aoa-engineering-shape is a skill published in the GitHub repository 8Dionysus/aoa-skills (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 769 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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