principle-model-the-domain

principle-model-the-domain is a skill for Claude Code from chhoumann/t3-pstack. It costs 27 tokens per session (373 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software design principle for representing a problem with data structures that match the real domain. Examples include state machines for lifecycles, maps for lookups, and typed alternatives for different cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing stateful logic, handling many branches, repeating the same data shape across files, or choosing between structures such as queues, caches, indexes, graphs, and trees.
Why use it?
It keeps rules in one understandable structure instead of scattering them across conditionals and repeated assumptions. This can make invalid states impossible and reduce branching code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the t3-pstack plugin — 62 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing stateful logic, handling many branches, repeating the same data shape across files, or choosing between structures such as queues, caches, indexes, graphs, and trees.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chhoumann/t3-pstack/principle-model-the-domain
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add chhoumann/t3-pstack --skill principle-model-the-domain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chhoumann/t3-pstack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install t3-pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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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 373 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 $0.00373
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00149
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00037

Measured yesterday against content hash 52c0d85e0c38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

principle-model-the-domain 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/pstack/skills/principle-model-the-domain/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Model the Domain

Encode the real domain in a data structure instead of scattering it across conditionals. A structure that matches the domain makes invalid states unrepresentable and deletes branches. Choosing it at write time is cheap. Recovering it later reads as a refactor and gets deferred.

Reach for:

  • A state machine instead of scattered booleans, phases, or lifecycle checks.
  • A typed model instead of loose parameters or repeated shape assumptions.
  • A map, registry, lookup table, or discriminated union instead of branching spread across files.
  • A reducer or command/event model instead of ad hoc state mutations.
  • A module organized around one body of domain knowledge instead of a sequence such as load, validate, transform, and save. Execution order is not ownership.
  • A small module boundary that gathers repeated behavior, ownership, or invariants.
  • A queue, cache, index, graph, tree, or normalized collection where the access pattern calls for it.
  • Any other structure that fits. When none fits, work out what the code must never allow and how the data gets read, then find the structure that encodes exactly that.

Do not force an abstraction. Prefer boring code if the current shape is already clear, local, and unlikely to grow. Be skeptical of an abstraction that adds indirection without removing branches, duplicated rules, invalid states, or lifecycle risk.

The sign that you skipped this is a new feature that grows an existing if/else chain by one more branch, or a second boolean that must stay in sync with the first. Temporal decomposition is another sign. Phase-named modules repeat the same domain rules across steps.

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 52c0d85e0c38
  2. 3d ago First seen · 25 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 3d14c29b3aca

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principle-model-the-domain is a skill published in the GitHub repository chhoumann/t3-pstack (190 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 373 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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