principle-type-system-discipline

principle-type-system-discipline is a skill for Claude Code from ericlitman/open-pstack. It costs 53 tokens per session (312 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of principle-type-system-discipline, MIT.

A design and review practice for statically typed code, where the compiler checks meaningful states, valid inputs, and all possible cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing data models, function signatures, external-data parsing, and code that handles several possible states.
Why use it?
It catches mismatched values and missing cases before the program runs, instead of relying on runtime checks and assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the pstack plugin — 63 skills, 27 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing data models, function signatures, external-data parsing, and code that handles several possible states.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericlitman/open-pstack/principle-type-system-discipline
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 ericlitman/open-pstack --skill principle-type-system-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericlitman/open-pstack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 63 skills, 27 agents, 1 hook.

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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 312 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 100% 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 $0.00053 $0.00312
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00125
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00031

Measured 9d ago against content hash e4bb75104ff5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

principle-type-system-discipline 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 9d 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

100% identical to principle-type-system-discipline — 0 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-type-system-discipline/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Type System Discipline

Make the compiler reject impossible states, mismatched primitives, and unhandled variants. Prefer defining errors and special cases out of existence over proliferating handlers. For TypeScript syntax, see the typescript-best-practices skill.

  • Brand semantic primitives. UserId and OrderId are strings underneath but should not be interchangeable. Give each its own type, such as a branded intersection in TypeScript or a newtype elsewhere. Validate once at creation, trust the type downstream. If two arguments share a primitive type but mean different things, brand them.
  • External data is untyped until parsed. RPC payloads, JSON, IPC messages, CLI args, config files, environment variables, database rows. Have a parse function at every boundary that turns unstructured input into the typed model. The boundary-discipline principle skill says where to put validation.
  • Derive types from authoritative schemas. When a protocol buffer, OpenAPI spec, GraphQL schema, database migration, design-token file, or another file owns a shape, derive from it instead of hand-rolling a parallel type. See the encode-lessons-in-structure principle 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. 9d ago Changed · -5 lines · -7 tokens per session e4bb75104ff5
  2. 14d ago Changed · -13 lines 388d8966513f
  3. 1mo ago Changed adaa7a27c879
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 32 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 5b4df1580055

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principle-type-system-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericlitman/open-pstack (526 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 312 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to principle-type-system-discipline, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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