from-first-principle

from-first-principle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 64 tokens per session (707 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for rebuilding a design, organisation, or API by identifying its basic parts, structure, and unresolved assumptions. An API is the interface that software exposes for other software to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce a local specification for a first-principles rebuild of an existing design, organisation, or API.
Why use it?
It helps separate fundamental decisions from existing implementation details when recreating a system.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-create-advanced plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to produce a local specification for a first-principles rebuild of an existing design, organisation, or API.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/from-first-principle
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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill from-first-principle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-create-advanced, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 707 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 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 $0.00064 $0.00707
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00353
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00071

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6e73d5bec9e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

from-first-principle 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 6d 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.

plugins/odin-create-advanced/skills/from-first-principle/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

From first principle

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User wants to rebuild a design, organization, or API from primitives.
Authority Write one named local rebuild specification artifact; read the existing target as read-only. Rollback is deleting the artifact.
Side effect Writes a first-principles rebuild specification of the design, organization, or API to a local file.
Done Produces a rebuilt first-principles specification naming primitives, derived structure, and open assumptions.

Not for

  • A perspective take on a question — use the from-*-perspective seats.
  • Pruning an existing structure down to its primitives — this rebuilds from primitives, it does not strip down.
  • Restarting from a blank greenfield — use fromzero.
  • Remote, credential, publish, deploy, or irreversible changes.

Inputs

Required: the target to rebuild (a design, an organization, or an API) and access to its current form for read-only comparison. Optional: the primitives the user insists on starting from; when absent, primitives are derived from the target itself.

Procedure

  1. Name the target and confirm whether it is a design, an organization, or an API. Done when: the target type is stated.
  2. Enumerate the irreducible primitives the target cannot exist without: concepts, data, or operations that are not themselves derivable from something smaller in this target. Done when: primitives are listed and each is confirmed irreducible.
  3. Derive the target's structure from those primitives only. Reject any element that is not forced by a primitive or a necessary composition of primitives. Done when: every derived element traces to a primitive or composition.
  4. For each derived element, record the primitive or composition that forces it. Elements with no primitive basis are open assumptions, not derived. Done when: each element is labeled derived or open-assumption with its basis.
  5. Write the rebuild specification to a local artifact: the enumerated primitives, the derived structure, each derivation step, and the open assumptions. Done when: the artifact is written with all four sections.
  6. Diff the rebuilt structure against the existing target, marking what changed and what was eliminated as non-primitive. Done when: the diff is recorded in the artifact.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago First seen · 47 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 6e73d5bec9e4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

from-first-principle is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 707 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 2026-09-04.

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