pressure-test

pressure-test is a skill for Claude Code from escoffier-labs/skillet. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,424 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured way to test an idea, plan, design, or project scope before building it. It makes important decisions explicit and records whether each decision comes from evidence, a stated constraint, or a judgment.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for examining product ideas, technical plans, designs, and project scopes before implementation, either by asking the user questions or answering them when instructed.
Why use it?
Vague plans often leave key questions unresolved until implementation, causing rework and unclear choices. This process exposes weak points and closes open decisions first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skillet plugin — 39 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It is for examining product ideas, technical plans, designs, and project scopes before implementation, either by asking the user questions or answering them when instructed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/pressure-test
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 escoffier-labs/skillet --skill pressure-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/escoffier-labs/skillet

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skillet, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for pressure-test

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,424 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 $0.00078 $0.01424
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00712
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00142

Measured 10d ago against content hash c48fc9c482b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pressure-test 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 10d 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.

skillet/skills/pressure-test/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

pressure-test

The gate between "I have an idea" and "here is a plan." A plan only earns the build when its load-bearing decisions are explicit and its unresolved branches are closed. This skill drives toward that, one decision at a time, and refuses to let a vague idea coast into implementation on momentum.

Two modes, one job. In interactive mode the user answers. In sous mode the user has stepped away and the agent answers in their place, on the record. Either way the deliverable is the same: a set of decisions someone can build from, each one traceable to why it was made.

The mechanic that makes this work

Every decision gets pinned to its basis. That pin is the whole point, it is what separates a real decision from a guess wearing a confident voice.

  • In interactive mode, the basis is the user's answer. You propose, they confirm or redirect, you record what they chose.
  • In sous mode, you supply the basis and you label it honestly, one of: evidence (something you inspected this session: the repo, docs, a tool's --help, an upstream project), stated-constraint (the user's own prior decisions or stated limits), or judgment (your best call, nothing verifiable behind it). A decision built on more than one gets split labels naming the unverified part, like: evidence+judgment (the endpoints are from the load report; the 300ms target is mine).

A raw limit the user stated is stated-constraint; a conclusion you drew from it is judgment. "The ADR forbids new datastores" is stated-constraint; "so reusing the existing Redis is fine" is judgment built on it. Recalled knowledge you could not re-confirm this session is judgment, not evidence. Collapsing these distinctions is the one dishonest move this skill exists to prevent.

How to run it

Work the decisions in dependency order, never as a questionnaire dump. Resolve the upstream decision before the ones that hang off it. Before asking anything, check whether the repo, docs, or files already answer it, an answer you can read is not a question you should ask.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 79 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A c48fc9c482b5

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pressure-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository escoffier-labs/skillet (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,424 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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