principle-explicit-intent

principle-explicit-intent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bostonaholic/team. It costs 30 tokens per session (213 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An authorization rule that requires clear user intent before an irreversible action such as merging, deleting, publishing, or force-pushing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for release workflows, repository actions, deletions, public closures, and other operations that permanently change shared state.
Why use it?
Once an irreversible action happens, later verification cannot undo it. Approval must cover exactly the stated scope.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the team plugin — 88 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for release workflows, repository actions, deletions, public closures, and other…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bostonaholic/team/principle-explicit-intent
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 bostonaholic/team --skill principle-explicit-intent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/team

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 88 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 213 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 $0.00030 $0.00213
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00106
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00021

Measured yesterday against content hash c904e08408f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

principle-explicit-intent 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.

skills/principle-explicit-intent/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Explicit Intent

Perform merges, pushes over published history, public closes, and deletions only on the user's stated intent, never inferred from state.

  • Do not infer ship intent from green, rebase intent from behind, or abandon intent from stale.
  • Require one yes per irreversible mutation; a named set authorizes that set, never unnamed items or adjacent change classes.
  • Treat authorization as permission to finish the verified act, and nothing beyond it.
  • Use granted authorization without re-asking; after gates pass, finish. Bound and report any confirmation churn.
  • Put "Invoke ONLY on … never infer …" in descriptions of skills whose invocation authorizes side effects; set disable-model-invocation for stricter host-enforced entry guards.
  • Put the guard at each in-run approval instead when invocation alone authorizes no mutation.
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday Changed · -20 lines · -17 tokens per session c904e08408f5
  2. 3d ago First seen · 37 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 63802722dc4d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

principle-explicit-intent is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/team (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 213 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 2026-09-03.