principle-model-the-domain

principle-model-the-domain is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericlitman/open-pstack. It costs 39 tokens per session (420 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of principle-model-the-domain, MIT.

A design practice for representing a problem's real concepts and rules in data structures instead of scattering them across conditionals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for stateful logic, lifecycle phases, typed models, registries, reducers, queues, caches, and other structured data.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated assumptions and branching, while making invalid combinations harder or impossible to create.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the pstack plugin — 52 skills, 12 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills, 12 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 420 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00039 $0.00420
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00210
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00042

Measured 6d ago against content hash ef1a35fdb019, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 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

This is a copy

91% identical to principle-model-the-domain — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/pstack/skills/principle-model-the-domain/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Model the Domain

Encode the real domain in a data structure instead of scattering it across conditionals.

Why: Scattered booleans, repeated shape assumptions, and branching spread across files are accidental complexity. 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 structures like these:

  • A state machine instead of scattered booleans, phases, or lifecycle checks.
  • A typed object/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 data access pattern calls for it.
  • Any other structure that fits. The list above covers the common cases only. 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 tell 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 tell. 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. 6d ago First seen · 27 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A ef1a35fdb019

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principle-model-the-domain is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericlitman/open-pstack (216 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 420 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to principle-model-the-domain, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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