write-a-principle

write-a-principle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Future-CX/AI-Architecture-Toolkit. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,253 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A document-writing workflow for creating an architecture principle from a standard template, such as a rule about data ownership or governance. It writes the result into the private lab repository's `principles/` folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft, scaffold, or add a principle from a private lab repository, typically with the toolkit mounted as a submodule.
Why use it?
It gives architecture principles a consistent structure and keeps private decision guidance separate from the public toolkit repository.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/future-cx/ai-architecture-toolkit/write-a-principle
Any agent
npx skills add Future-CX/AI-Architecture-Toolkit --skill write-a-principle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Future-CX/AI-Architecture-Toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,253 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00058 $0.01253
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00626
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00125

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8d77e7e47ded, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-a-principle 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/write-principle.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/write-a-principle/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Write A Principle

Quick Start

Always run this skill from a private lab repository where this toolkit is mounted as a submodule, typically toolkit/. Write generated principle documents under the private lab repository's root principles/ folder using the preset template in toolkit/skills/write-a-principle/templates/principle-template.md.

Do not run this skill from the public toolkit repository for generated output. Do not write generated principle files under toolkit/principles/. Run the command from the private lab root, or pass --output-root <private-lab-root>, so output goes to <private-lab-root>/principles/.

If running from a different working directory, explicitly target the private lab root:

python3 toolkit/skills/write-a-principle/scripts/write-principle.py "Data Architecture Principles" \
  --category-code DATA \
  --intent "Define durable data architecture principles for ownership, quality, governance, and integration." \
  --principle "Data ownership must be explicit and aligned to business domains" \
  --principle-description "Every important data object must have a named business owner and stewardship model" \
  --principle-rationale "Ownership makes data quality, access, lifecycle, and change decisions accountable" \
  --principle-consequence "Teams must identify ownership before introducing or changing critical data flows" \
  --principle-do "Name the owning domain or team for each critical data object" \
  --principle-dont "Treat shared data as ownerless platform inventory" \
  --principle "Critical data must have defined quality expectations and stewardship" \
  --usage "Use these principles when designing data platforms, integrations, analytics products, and governance processes." \
  --output-root <private-lab-root>

Run from the private lab root, this creates principles/data-architecture-principles.md beside toolkit/.

Each generated principle is also added to principles/_principles-list.md using a markdown table with name, description, and last_updated columns. Create _principles-list.md when it does not exist. Keep rows sorted alphabetically by principle name.

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 6d ago First seen · 141 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 8d77e7e47ded

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write-a-principle is a skill published in the GitHub repository Future-CX/AI-Architecture-Toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,253 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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