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.
npx skills add bostonaholic/team --skill principle-files-are-the-contractgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/teamWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bostonaholic/team/principle-files-are-the-contract)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bostonaholic/team/principle-files-are-the-contract"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bostonaholic/team/principle-files-are-the-contract/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bostonaholic/team/principle-files-are-the-contract"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bostonaholic/team/principle-files-are-the-contract.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00031 | $0.00181 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00090 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00036 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00018 |
Grade A, and why
principle-files-are-the-contract 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 7d 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.
What it actually says
Files Are the Contract
Persist durable work and gate results in self-declaring files; pass state between steps through files, never shared chat memory.
- A step that produced no artifact did not happen; write before reporting completion.
- Pass a path, not a paraphrase; consumers read the artifact, not the producer's summary.
- Treat files as authoritative after interruption; rebuild ledgers and phase tables by scanning them.
- Revise only by explicit rule: overwrite a revised design; append and never overwrite verdict records.
- Checkpoint long procedures to append-only logs for fresh-context recovery.
- Record decisions, approvals, and pre-images in the artifact directory for later audit.
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.
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.
- 7d ago Changed · -15 lines · -11 tokens per session 59047fe9fa49
- 8d ago First seen · 32 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 28778a9a48b3
principle-files-are-the-contract is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/team (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 181 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.
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