event-modeling

A planning method for designing an event-driven feature before writing code. It defines commands, events, data views, automated reactions, and the flow between them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide stream boundaries, authorization, event names, read models, automations, translations, compliance subjects, and the tests needed to prove each part.
Why use it?
It resolves the behavior and data decisions that can otherwise cause confusion or rework during implementation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cratis/ai/event-modeling
Any agent
npx skills add Cratis/AI --skill event-modeling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cratis/AI

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,341 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00065 $0.01341
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00134

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4cc24ccf0faf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

event-modeling 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.ai/skills/event-modeling/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Event Modeling

Use this skill before writing code when behavior, event vocabulary, stream boundaries, or a multi-slice flow is not already settled. The output is an implementation brief: which commands exist, which stream each event lands on, which read models consume those events, which automations/translations react, and which specs prove the flow. Afterward, use the create-event-model skill to draw or update the Mermaid EventModel.md diagram.

Lineage. Cratis's four slice types and the Given/When/Then-per-slice discipline follow Event Modeling (Adam Dymitruk; Martin Dilger, Understanding Eventsourcing); this skill applies that method to Cratis.

Skip this only for mechanical changes where the event types and flow already exist and the request is just wiring or a narrow fix.

The brief — decide before implementation

  • Module / feature / slice name and slice type for each behavior (State Change / State View / Automation / Translation).
  • Commands: inputs and the authorization (roles/policy) that gates them. Commands are imperative intents.
  • Events: past-tense, one-purpose facts. Decide the event source id for every event — events never carry their own event-source id as a payload property. Event properties are non-nullable (Chronicle's analyzer warns otherwise); model optional facts as separate events, not nullable fields. Don't append events for derived/aggregate state — project that from source events.
  • Read models: their consumers and source events; whether projection-backed, reducer-backed, or [Passive] (command-side decision only).
  • Automations / translations: which events they react to, which side effects need [OnceOnly], and whether they emit follow-up events or run commands via ICommandPipeline.
  • Specs: happy path, validation failures, constraints, projections/reducers, reactor side effects.

Information completeness — trace every field to an event

The core Event Modeling check, run at modeling time (not after the projection misbehaves):

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 64 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 4cc24ccf0faf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

event-modeling is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cratis/AI (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,341 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 2026-08-31.

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