breaking-driven

breaking-driven is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,322 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A rebuild method for an overly large code module: separate essential behaviour from leftover complexity, remove the residue, and rewrite the module while preserving its users’ expected behaviour.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify a named module, remove obsolete implementation, create tests for essential behaviour, and verify the result.
Why use it?
It addresses bloated code, duplication, deep indirection, and unnecessary branches while keeping a testable record of the behaviour that must remain.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to simplify a named module, remove obsolete implementation, create tests for essential behaviour, and verify the result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/breaking-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/outline-driven-development --skill breaking-driven
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for breaking-driven

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,322 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 $0.00045 $0.01322
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00661
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00132

Measured yesterday against content hash 861181b9e362, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

breaking-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 yesterday.

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.

.devin/skills/breaking-driven/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Breaking-driven development

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger The user says "this module is bloated", "rewrite this properly", or "break it and rebuild".
Authority Reversible local: writes only VCS-tracked targets (destructive changes; show the exact set before mutation); rollback is version control. No remote mutation.
Side effect Deletes obsolete implementation and residue, writes the replacement, and adds essential-behavior tests.
Done Consumer contract preserved, every divergence classified, residue absent, and verifier green.

Inputs

A named path or identified target must be supplied or named in the request and defines the whole job. Optionally, a blank invocation or explicit repo-wide wording surveys the repo and works through a ranked list one target at a time.

Procedure

  1. Pick the target. A named path goes straight to step 2. Survey only on explicit repo-wide intent, ranking candidates by bloat signal, size, duplication, indirection depth, branch density, then work the list in order. Any identifiable target scopes to itself; escalating a named grievance into a whole-tree campaign is this skill's worst failure, and trigger phrasing alone cannot tell a single target from a sweep. Done when: a single target is selected or a ranked survey list is produced on explicit repo-wide intent.

  2. Classify the surface. Inventory consumers. Mark interior (every caller in-tree, nothing persisted or shipped) or boundary (public API, wire or on-disk format, config running in someone else's deployment, plugin point, anything a version was promised against). Interior is a conclusion, not a default: every consumer channel static analysis cannot resolve, reflection, string dispatch, generated code, external integrations, operator runbooks, carries boundary class until evidence or an explicit yes moves it. An empty grep over dynamic dispatch is not evidence; unresolved means boundary. Done when: every consumer is classified interior or boundary with evidence for interior claims.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 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. yesterday Changed · -18 tokens per session 861181b9e362
  2. 4d ago First seen · 46 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 44215612849f

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breaking-driven is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,322 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 2026-09-03.