principle-type-system-discipline

principle-type-system-discipline is a skill for Claude Code from michael-denyer/pstack-claude. It costs 53 tokens per session (312 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to use a programming language's type checker to prevent invalid data and missing cases before the program runs. It applies to statically typed languages, which check many mistakes during compilation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing types, reviewing function signatures, handling external data, working from schemas, or checking every case in a set of possible variants.
Why use it?
It prevents contradictory states, mismatched basic values, and unhandled alternatives from reaching runtime. It also avoids weakening types just to make code compile.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the pstack plugin — 69 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing types, reviewing function signatures, handling external data, working from schemas, or checking every case in a set of possible variants.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/principle-type-system-discipline
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 · 3,377 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-type-system-discipline
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 69 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 312 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 $0.00053 $0.00312
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00125
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00031

Measured 10d ago against content hash e4bb75104ff5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

principle-type-system-discipline 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/pstack/skills/principle-type-system-discipline/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Type System Discipline

Make the compiler reject impossible states, mismatched primitives, and unhandled variants. Prefer defining errors and special cases out of existence over proliferating handlers. For TypeScript syntax, see the typescript-best-practices skill.

  • Brand semantic primitives. UserId and OrderId are strings underneath but should not be interchangeable. Give each its own type, such as a branded intersection in TypeScript or a newtype elsewhere. Validate once at creation, trust the type downstream. If two arguments share a primitive type but mean different things, brand them.
  • External data is untyped until parsed. RPC payloads, JSON, IPC messages, CLI args, config files, environment variables, database rows. Have a parse function at every boundary that turns unstructured input into the typed model. The boundary-discipline principle skill says where to put validation.
  • Derive types from authoritative schemas. When a protocol buffer, OpenAPI spec, GraphQL schema, database migration, design-token file, or another file owns a shape, derive from it instead of hand-rolling a parallel type. See the encode-lessons-in-structure principle skill.
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 Changed · -5 lines · -7 tokens per session e4bb75104ff5
  2. 13d ago Changed · -13 lines 388d8966513f
  3. 1mo ago Changed adaa7a27c879
  4. 1mo ago Changed 1499a33a6c64
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 32 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 5b4df1580055

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principle-type-system-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository michael-denyer/pstack-claude (3,377 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 312 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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