abstraction-concrete-examples

abstraction-concrete-examples is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,298 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for explaining ideas by moving from broad principles to specific, concrete examples at the reader's level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing layered documentation, explaining concepts to different audiences, testing edge cases with examples, breaking plans into actions, and connecting strategy to implementation.
Why use it?
It helps expose hidden assumptions, clarify difficult concepts, and check whether a strategy works in real situations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Writing layered documentation, explaining concepts to different audiences, testing edge cases with examples, breaking plans into actions, and connecting strategy to implementation.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library --skill abstraction-concrete-examples
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,298 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 $0.00069 $0.01298
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00649
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00130

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6d30b6530665, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

abstraction-concrete-examples 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 12d 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/abstraction-concrete-examples/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Abstraction Ladder Framework

Table of Contents

Purpose

Create structured abstraction ladders showing how concepts translate from high-level principles to concrete, actionable examples. This bridges communication gaps, reveals hidden assumptions, and tests whether abstract ideas work in practice.

When to Use This Skill

  • User needs to explain same concept to different expertise levels
  • Task requires moving between "why" (abstract) and "how" (concrete)
  • Identifying edge cases by testing principles against specific scenarios
  • Designing layered documentation (overview → details → specifics)
  • Decomposing complex problems into actionable steps
  • Validating that high-level goals translate to concrete actions
  • Bridging strategy and execution gaps

Trigger phrases: "abstraction levels", "make this concrete", "explain at different levels", "from principles to implementation", "high-level and detailed view"

What is an Abstraction Ladder?

A multi-level structure (typically 3-5 levels) connecting universal principles to concrete details:

  • Level 1 (Abstract): Universal principles, theories, values
  • Level 2: Frameworks, standards, categories
  • Level 3 (Middle): Methods, approaches, general examples
  • Level 4: Specific implementations, concrete instances
  • Level 5 (Concrete): Precise details, measurements, edge cases

Quick Example:

  • L1: "Software should be maintainable"
  • L2: "Use modular architecture"
  • L3: "Apply dependency injection"
  • L4: "UserService injects IUserRepository"
  • L5: constructor(private repo: IUserRepository) {}

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 12d ago First seen · 128 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 6d30b6530665

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abstraction-concrete-examples is a skill published in the GitHub repository onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library (16 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,298 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 2026-08-30.