proof-driven

A development workflow that proves required software properties before implementation, using techniques such as property-based tests and theorem proving.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define postconditions, invariants, round-trip behavior, and model comparisons, then combine formal proofs with example and property tests.
Why use it?
It aims to prevent code from being accepted with important behavior left unverified and turns discovered counterexamples into regression tests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-codex-plugin/proof-driven
Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin --skill proof-driven
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,616 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00033 $0.01616
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00808
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00162

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0dd3b85b8b6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proof-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 2d 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

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/proof-driven/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Proof-driven development

Prove properties from requirements before writing code. Proofs guide implementation, not the reverse. Zero unproven properties in final code.

Modern insight (2025): PBT + example tests pairing is the standard -- properties discover edge cases, example tests prevent regressions and serve as documentation. Counterexamples from shrinking should always become permanent regression tests. AI-assisted PBT (Anthropic 2025) can generate properties from docstrings, but human judgment for property selection remains essential.

See frameworks for language-specific PBT and stateful testing tools. See examples for brief property test patterns per language. See formal-tools for theorem provers and bounded model checkers.


Property Categories

Category Description Example
Postcondition Output satisfies contract sorted(sort(xs))
Invariant Property preserved by operation len(xs) == len(sort(xs))
Idempotence f(f(x)) == f(x) deduplicate(deduplicate(xs))
Inverse / Round-trip g(f(x)) == x decode(encode(x)) == x
Model-based Implementation matches reference my_sort(xs) == stdlib_sort(xs)
Commutativity Order doesn't matter a + b == b + a
Metamorphic Relationship between outputs sin(-x) == -sin(x)

Most effective (OOPSLA 2025): Model-based properties (~80% bug detection), postconditions (~65%). Least effective: properties that reimplement the logic under test.

Anti-pattern: Don't reimplement the function in the property. Properties should be simpler than the code they test.


When to Apply

  • Critical algorithms (sort, search, crypto, compression)
  • Financial calculations (rounding, currency conversion)
  • Consensus/distributed protocols (invariants across nodes)
  • Safety-critical systems (medical, automotive, aerospace)
  • Data structure invariants (balanced tree, heap property)
  • Serialization round-trip (encode/decode fidelity)
  • Stateful systems (databases, queues, caches) -- via stateful PBT

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 2d ago First seen · 150 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 0dd3b85b8b6c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

proof-driven is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,616 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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