pstack-principle-prove-it-works

pstack-principle-prove-it-works is a skill for Claude Code from dmae97/omk. It costs 53 tokens per session (297 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification practice that checks the actual result of a coding task rather than trusting a report, a cached value, or the fact that the code compiles.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps verify features, values, running processes, migrations, and other changes by inspecting or exercising the real result.
Why use it?
It catches cases where an indirect check looks successful even though the feature or output is wrong. Repeatable checks also give reviewers evidence they can run themselves.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit It helps verify features, values, running processes, migrations, and other changes by inspecting or exercising the real result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dmae97/omk/principle-prove-it-works
View source ↗ dmae97/omk
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dmae97/omk --skill principle-prove-it-works
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dmae97/omk

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 297 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 $0.00053 $0.00297
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00119
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00030

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0e58ec00f245, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pstack-principle-prove-it-works 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 6d 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

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

packages/coding-agent/resources/pstack/skills/principle-prove-it-works/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Prove It Works

Verify every task output by checking the real thing directly. Do not infer from proxies, self-reports, or "it compiles."

Why: Unverified work has unknown correctness. Indirect verification (file mtimes, output freshness, agent self-reports, cached screenshots) feels cheaper than direct observation. Acting on a wrong inference costs far more than checking the source.

Check the real thing, not a proxy:

  • Check process liveness directly, not indirectly through derived state
  • Read the actual value, not a cached or derived representation
  • When verification fails, suspect the observation method before suspecting the system

Script the check when you can

The strongest proof is a deterministic script that re-runs the same comparison, not a one-time eyeball. Write the script, run it, and keep its output as an artifact a reviewer can re-run instead of trusting your word.

Keep the artifact visible for the human. Commit it only for large or complex work where the trail has to be auditable later, like a big port or migration (the show-me-your-work skill).

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. 6d ago First seen · 23 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 0e58ec00f245

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pstack-principle-prove-it-works is a skill published in the GitHub repository dmae97/omk (152 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 297 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-27.

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