type-driven

type-driven is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 44 tokens per session (849 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A development approach that uses carefully designed types to represent valid states and prevent invalid ones from being created.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to model domains, represent state machines, define safer API boundaries, and parse incoming data into trusted forms.
Why use it?
It moves correctness rules into the data model, reducing scattered checks and missed cases.

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-code plugin — 60 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to model domains, represent state machines, define safer API boundaries, and parse incoming data into trusted forms.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 60 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 849 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 $0.00044 $0.00849
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00340
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00085

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2b331c42fc4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

type-driven 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 1mo 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-code/skills/type-driven/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Type-driven development

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger The work is modeling a domain, encoding a state machine, hardening an API boundary, making invalid states unrepresentable, or parsing instead of validating.
Authority Reversible local: writes only domain types, public signatures, and affected callers and tests; rollback is version control or undo. No remote mutation.
Side effect Rewrites domain types, public signatures, and affected callers and tests to the new algebraic model.
Done Invalid states are unconstructible, matches are exhaustive, boundaries parse, and no scattered post-hoc validation remains.

Inputs

Required: the domain problem, data model, or API surface to encode. Optional: existing types or callers to refactor.

Refusals

  • Will not add runtime guards to fix a type-design failure: fix the type design.
  • Will not add a wildcard arm to silence a non-exhaustive match: add the missing variant.
  • Will not proceed with type holes or incomplete bodies.
  • Will not use this approach when the language lacks ADTs, sealed hierarchies, or equivalent sum-type support: skip and report.

Procedure

  1. Plan. State the domain in one paragraph. List all valid states, all invalid states, and every operation with its preconditions and postconditions. If any operation is partial, mark it as such. Done when: the domain is stated with valid states, invalid states, and operations listed.
  2. Design types first. For each invalid state, write a type that the compiler prevents. Use ADTs, phantom types, branded types, newtype wrappers, sealed hierarchies, or opaque types, whichever the language supports. Do not write implementation bodies until all types compile. Done when: all types compile and every invalid state is unrepresentable.
  3. Parse at boundaries. For every untrusted input (external data, deserialization, FFI, user input), write a parse constructor that returns the new type. Do not return bool and defer validity to callers. Done when: every untrusted input boundary has a parse function returning the new type.
  4. Exhaustive matching. Encode state machine transitions as exhaustive match/switch/visit on the sum type. Compiler warnings on incomplete arms are failures. Done when: every state-machine transition is an exhaustive match with no wildcard arms.
  5. Verify. Run the language's strict type checker and exhaustiveness check. Fix the type design, not the implementation, when the checker reports an illegal state is representable. Done when: the type checker and exhaustiveness check pass.
  6. Build. Run the full target build. Implement the bodies guided by the types. Done when: the target build passes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 1mo ago Changed · -21 tokens per session 2b331c42fc4e
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 52 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 1d4053348f88

Subscribe to this mod's changes

type-driven is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (37 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 849 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 2026-09-04.

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