haiku-pressure-testing

haiku-pressure-testing is a skill for Claude Code from gigsmart/haiku-method. It costs 18 tokens per session (305 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured test for checking whether a set of rules still guides an agent correctly when it faces pressure. Evaluation-Driven Development means testing behavior first, then improving the rules when the test exposes a failure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test a selected hat definition in a baseline phase and a full-rules phase. If the rules fail, it records the rationalization and adds protection against it.
Why use it?
It reveals whether an agent can be pushed into ignoring important constraints through time pressure, authority, cost, exhaustion, or other temptations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT variable. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the haiku plugin — 31 skills, 2 hooks, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to test a selected hat definition in a baseline phase and a full-rules phase. If the rules fail, it records the rationalization and adds protection against it.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add gigsmart/haiku-method
Claude Code
/plugin install haiku

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install haiku, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 2 hooks, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 305 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 $0.00018 $0.00305
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 8d ago against content hash fe8ee09a348a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

haiku-pressure-testing 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 8d 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.

plugin/skills/haiku-pressure-testing/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Pressure Testing

Adversarially test hat definitions using Evaluation-Driven Development (RED-GREEN-REFACTOR).

Process

  1. If no hat specified, list available hats from $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/studios/software/stages/*/hats/ and ask the user to pick one.

  2. Load the hat definition file.

  3. Design Pressure Scenario:

    • Combine 3+ pressure types (time, sunk cost, authority, economic, exhaustion, social, pragmatic)
    • Target the hat's most important constraints
    • Present scenario to user for approval
  4. RED Phase (baseline without anti-rationalization table):

    • Run scenario with a subagent that has hat instructions minus anti-rationalization table
    • Document verbatim: decisions made, rationalizations used, sections violated
  5. GREEN Phase (full hat definition):

    • Run same scenario with full hat definition
    • Agent MUST cite specific hat sections, acknowledge temptations
    • PASS if correct decision citing hat sections; FAIL if rationalized past them
  6. REFACTOR Phase:

    • If GREEN failed: capture rationalization, add to anti-rationalization table, re-run
    • If GREEN passed: document that hat held under pressure
  7. Commit artifacts to .haiku/pressure-tests/

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. 8d ago First seen · 35 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A fe8ee09a348a

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haiku-pressure-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository gigsmart/haiku-method (24 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 305 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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