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-fix-root-causesgit 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-fix-root-causes)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bostonaholic/team/principle-fix-root-causes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bostonaholic/team/principle-fix-root-causes/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-fix-root-causes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bostonaholic/team/principle-fix-root-causes.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 | $0.00024 | $0.00188 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00094 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00038 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00019 |
Grade A, and why
principle-fix-root-causes 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.
What it actually says
Fix Root Causes
Land debugging fixes at the root cause, never at the symptom.
- Reproduce before fixing; an unreproduced bug cannot be verified.
- Ask why until reaching a changeable cause beyond the proximate symptom.
- Add nil guards only when absence is legal; otherwise correct why absence occurred.
- Replace paragraph-justified workarounds with a code fix.
- Grep for sibling instances of the root cause and fix every occurrence.
- When stuck, instrument, read the actual error, and observe before hypothesizing.
- For failures after restart, suspect stale persistent state first: config files, caches, lock files, serialized state.
- If clearing a state file restores behavior, add state validation instead of unrelated code.
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.
- 4d ago Changed · -19 lines · -29 tokens per session ccf7753f2e9a
- 6d ago First seen · 38 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 45c857f6a80a
principle-fix-root-causes is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/team (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 188 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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