principle-outcome-oriented-execution

A planning principle for rewrites and migrations: focus on reaching the intended final architecture, with clear points where correctness is checked. A migration moves a system from one design or platform to another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when rewriting or migrating software, especially when intermediate states may temporarily break and the completed architecture needs full testing.
Why use it?
It prevents temporary compatibility code from becoming permanent and makes the final result easier to verify.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the pstack plugin — 44 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-outcome-oriented-execution
Any agent
npx skills add ericlitman/open-pstack --skill principle-outcome-oriented-execution
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 44 skills, 12 agents, 1 hook.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 201 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% 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 $0.00039 $0.00201
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00101
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00020

Measured 3d ago against content hash 674266f240d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

principle-outcome-oriented-execution 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 3d 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

88% identical to principle-outcome-oriented-execution — 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-outcome-oriented-execution/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Outcome-Oriented Execution

Optimize for the intended, verifiable end state rather than preserving smooth intermediate states.

Why: Keeping every intermediate step fully stable often creates temporary compatibility code that becomes long-lived debt. Converge on the target architecture and prove correctness at explicit verification boundaries.

Core rule:

  • Prioritize end-state integrity over transitional stability
  • Intermediate breakage is acceptable when it is planned, scoped, and reversible
  • Always run final verification before declaring done

Guardrails:

  • Use this for planned rewrites and migrations with explicit phase boundaries
  • Declare where temporary breakage is acceptable
  • Keep high-signal checks for actively touched areas while migrating
  • Require full static and runtime verification at plan completion
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. 3d ago First seen · 23 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 674266f240d1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

principle-outcome-oriented-execution is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericlitman/open-pstack (155 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 201 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to principle-outcome-oriented-execution, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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