principle-idempotent-reruns

principle-idempotent-reruns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bostonaholic/team. It costs 27 tokens per session (159 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure design rule that makes interrupted or repeated runs safely reach the same final state without duplicating work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for building repeatable scripts and agent workflows that create, update, close, or delete records across multiple steps.
Why use it?
It makes retrying after a crash, stop, or rate limit safe. Completed actions are recognized, and changed data is not overwritten blindly.

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 — 93 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for building repeatable scripts and agent workflows that create, update, close, or delete records across multiple steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bostonaholic/team/principle-idempotent-reruns
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-idempotent-reruns
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 93 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 159 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 $0.00027 $0.00159
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00079
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00016

Measured 7d ago against content hash c1329973afab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

principle-idempotent-reruns 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.

skills/principle-idempotent-reruns/SKILL.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Idempotent Re-runs

Make re-runs converge without failure or duplication: Already-done is done, not an error; match before create; re-read before write.

  • Report already-deleted or already-closed targets as done and continue.
  • Match title or content before creating issues, comments, or constructs.
  • Re-read each item immediately before writing it; skip and report state drift instead of overwriting it.
  • Record landed steps during execution so re-runs know what remains.
  • Run mutations serially with backoff where rate limits could leave a plan partly applied.
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. 7d ago Changed · -13 lines · -18 tokens per session c1329973afab
  2. 9d ago First seen · 29 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 4af3f7eac5c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

principle-idempotent-reruns is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/team (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 159 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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