premise-gate

premise-gate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arunveersingh/ai. It costs 99 tokens per session (661 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning method that prevents work from starting when it depends on an unverified assumption. Each assumption must have an openable source before dependent tasks begin.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list premises, link each one to a source, check them before starting tasks, and mark work as blocked until unknown premises are resolved.
Why use it?
It stops a wrong early assumption from spreading through several tasks and producing incorrect work. It also makes the missing evidence and the task it blocks explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to list premises, link each one to a source, check them before starting tasks, and mark work as blocked until unknown premises are resolved.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arunveersingh/ai/day-11-premise-gate
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 arunveersingh/ai --skill day-11-premise-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arunveersingh/ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 661 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 $0.00099 $0.00661
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00264
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00066

Measured 13d ago against content hash c80a091edcfb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

premise-gate 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 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (gate.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

courses/make-ai-fail-safely/practice/day-11-premise-gate/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Premise gate

A reconciliation plan flags "settlement file timestamps are UTC" with no source. You approve it; T2–T4 start on it over the afternoon. The file is Amsterdam local time, so payments made just after midnight land on the wrong day and false discrepancy tickets go out every night.

Flagged is not gated. No source, no start, and the answer lives in the plan.

Part A — Ask (paste after your ticket)

Plan the tasks before writing code. List premises as:
P<n> | claim | KNOWN or UNKNOWN | source I can open | how to resolve
Reasoning and defaults are UNKNOWN. Each task: T<n> | title | needs: P<n>, ...
Before starting any task, re-check its premises in the plan. If one is UNKNOWN, don't start it. Reply:
BLOCKED: premise P<n> unknown | found: T<n> needs "<claim>", no source | need: <what settles it>
Start tasks that need nothing unknown. When I resolve a premise, update its line with the source.

In an orchestrated flow (spec → plan → tasks → implement): the premise table lives in the plan file; each task lists needs; your project rules say "check premises before starting a task". Resolved sources go into the plan so the next session inherits them.

Part B — Gate (you do this)

gate.py has no dependencies. Put the plan in JSON (see plan.example.json) and run it before a task starts:

python3 gate.py plan.json        # every task
python3 gate.py plan.json T3     # one task; exit 0 may start, 1 blocked or unknown id

On the example: T1: may start, then T2: BLOCKED: premise P1 unknown | found: T2 needs "settlement file timestamps are UTC", no source | need: payment provider's file spec, and the same for T3 and T4.

  1. Open every KNOWN source. If it doesn't say what the claim says, it's UNKNOWN.
  2. Resolve with a lookup or a decision, not a better guess. Write the source into the plan.
  3. A risky task with needs: [] deserves a question: what is it relying on?

Limit: the gate checks status, not truth. A wrong or stale source passes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 13d ago First seen · 45 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A c80a091edcfb

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premise-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository arunveersingh/ai (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 661 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-13.

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