action-domain-responder

action-domain-responder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from garrettw/php-arch-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,391 once invoked), scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

A set of guidelines for handling web and HTTP requests in PHP applications. It explains how the request layer should call application logic and return responses without absorbing domain rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing PHP controllers, views, templates, and Action-Domain-Responder structures, especially when framework MVC terminology is confusing.
Why use it?
It helps prevent business logic from accumulating in controllers and keeps HTTP handling separate from the core application behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when designing or reviewing PHP controllers, views, templates, and Action-Domain-Responder structures, especially when framework MVC terminology is confusing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/garrettw/php-arch-skills/action-domain-responder
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 garrettw/php-arch-skills --skill action-domain-responder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/garrettw/php-arch-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,391 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 $0.00077 $0.01391
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00696
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00139

Measured 11d ago against content hash bf78a71b1b47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

action-domain-responder 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 11d 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.

skills/action-domain-responder/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Presentation Patterns for PHP

This skill governs the web/HTTP layer — the thin edge that turns an HTTP request into a call on the application and turns the result into an HTTP response. Its central job is to keep that layer from leaking into the domain, and to correct a widespread misnomer.

The most important correction: "Web MVC" is not MVC

What PHP (and Rails, Spring, etc.) frameworks call "MVC" is not the original Model-View-Controller. It is Model 2 — Sun's server-side appropriation of the names, popularized by Apache Struts (Java) and Ruby on Rails, then copied by PHP frameworks. The original MVC (Smalltalk-80, 1979) was a client-side, in-memory GUI pattern: one MVC triad per screen element, connected by an observer graph that continuously notified views/controllers of state changes in memory. That has nothing to do with receiving one HTTP request and returning one HTTP response.

Worse, Model 2 prescribes putting business logic in the Controller — a UI component. That is the origin of the "fat controller" anti-pattern, and it directly contradicts the original MVC (where the model does the work). See web-mvc-is-not-mvc.md for the full distillation.

The better mental model: Action-Domain-Responder

Reframe the framework "controller" using Action-Domain-Responder (Paul M. Jones):

  • Action — receives the HTTP request, invokes the domain, and builds (not renders) the response. HTTP glue only.
  • Domain — "whatever does the domain work": the application/Service layer (orchestration, use cases) and the DDD domain layer beneath it (entities, policies, invariants). In ADR the Domain is the entry point into all of that, not just one layer.
  • Responder — builds the entire HTTP response: status, headers, cookies, content-type, and body. A view/template is only one mechanism the Responder may use for the body; the Responder owns all response construction, not just rendering.

A framework "controller" is really an Action + Responder pair; the "model" is really the Domain plus the persistence behind it. Not every framework that claims MVC actually separates these — many controllers still mix request handling, domain calls, and response building. Use ADR as the placement rule, not a guarantee of the scaffold. See the caveat in web-mvc-is-not-mvc.md. For per-framework guidance on getting as close to proper ADR as each framework allows, see adr-by-framework.md. The classic patterns these build on — Page Controller, Front Controller, Template/Transform/Two Step View, Application Controller — are catalogued in classic-web-patterns.md as vocabulary for recognizing what the framework already gives you.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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. 11d ago First seen · 57 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A bf78a71b1b47

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action-domain-responder is a skill published in the GitHub repository garrettw/php-arch-skills (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,391 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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