principle-exhaust-the-design-space

principle-exhaust-the-design-space is a skill for Claude Code from michael-denyer/pstack-claude. It costs 41 tokens per session (77 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design practice for exploring unfamiliar user interactions or architecture by creating two or three competing prototypes before choosing one.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for comparing alternative interface interactions or technical designs when the codebase offers no established pattern.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of committing to the first plausible design when several approaches could work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the pstack plugin — 71 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It is for comparing alternative interface interactions or technical designs when the codebase offers no established pattern.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/principle-exhaust-the-design-space
About the project

pstack-claude is a set of opinionated coding-agent skills and workflows ported from Cursor to Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and other agent harnesses. It guides agents toward concise, simple, and verified code by routing goals to suitable workflows and supporting subagent tools. The catalogue entries are the project's skills, agents, hook, and plugin implementations for these agent environments.

michael-denyer/pstack-claude · 3,523 stars · on GitHub

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 michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill principle-exhaust-the-design-space
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 71 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 77 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 13 Oct 2026
  • Snyk pass 13 Oct 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00041 $0.00077
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00031
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00008

Measured 15d ago against content hash 4abd4aaca252, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

principle-exhaust-the-design-space 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 15d 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

Copies of this mod

7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/pstack/skills/principle-exhaust-the-design-space/SKILL.md · 10 lines

What it actually says

Exhaust the Design Space

It also applies to product design decisions where user experience depends on feel, not logic.

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. 15d ago Changed · -12 lines 4abd4aaca252
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 22 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A be8d01be6436

Subscribe to this mod's changes

principle-exhaust-the-design-space is a skill published in the GitHub repository michael-denyer/pstack-claude (3,523 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 77 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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