pragmatic-guard

pragmatic-guard is a skill for Claude Code from codenamev/ai-software-architect. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,221 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of instructions for Pragmatic Guard Mode, which challenges unnecessary complexity and follows the YAGNI idea: do not build something until it is needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for enabling simplicity checks when reviewing plans, implementations, or other proposed changes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent over-engineering by questioning features and designs that are more elaborate than the current problem requires.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the ai-software-architect plugin — 7 skills, 8 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for enabling simplicity checks when reviewing plans, implementations, or other…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codenamev/ai-software-architect/pragmatic-guard
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 codenamev/ai-software-architect --skill pragmatic-guard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codenamev/ai-software-architect

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-software-architect, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 8 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,221 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 unknown 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 $0.00058 $0.01221
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00611
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00122

Measured 7d ago against content hash b886d83e1f59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pragmatic-guard 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/pragmatic-guard/SKILL.md · 154 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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 First seen · 154 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A b886d83e1f59

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pragmatic-guard is a skill published in the GitHub repository codenamev/ai-software-architect (76 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,221 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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