explicit-undefined

explicit-undefined is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from abstractonion/cadence. It costs 36 tokens per session (224 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A TypeScript rule for representing missing data with an explicit `| undefined` type instead of an optional field in most data structures and component properties. TypeScript is JavaScript with type information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when defining TypeScript data fields or React component properties. Simple on-or-off display flags may remain optional when omission clearly means false.
Why use it?
It makes callers deal visibly with the possibility that data is missing, which can reveal bugs that optional fields might hide.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the cadence plugin — 38 skills, 15 commands, 5 agents shipped together

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 skills/abstractonion/cadence/explicit-undefined
Any agent
npx skills add abstractonion/cadence --skill explicit-undefined
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abstractonion/cadence

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cadence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 15 commands, 5 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for explicit-undefined

README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 224 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 $0.00036 $0.00224
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00112
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00022

Measured 4d ago against content hash e1c25bebc2ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explicit-undefined 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 4d 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.

plugins/cadence/skills/explicit-undefined/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

TypeScript: prefer explicit | undefined over optional ?:

For data-shaped fields and props that callers must reason about, type them as T | undefined rather than field?: T.

Prefer

type Props = {
  projectId: string | undefined;
  user: User | undefined;
};

Avoid

type Props = {
  projectId?: string;
  user?: User;
};

Why

Explicit | undefined forces every caller to make a deliberate decision about the missing case. Optional ?: lets callers silently forget the field exists, which masks bugs.

When ?: is fine

Pure UI affordance flags where "omitted" obviously means "off": showHeader?, disabled?, hideFooter?. These don't carry data and have a sensible default-false interpretation.

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. 4d ago First seen · 35 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A e1c25bebc2ac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explicit-undefined is a skill published in the GitHub repository abstractonion/cadence (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 224 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.

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