contract-driven

contract-driven is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 33 tokens per session (804 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A software-design aid for writing rules about what must be true before an operation, after it, and throughout its execution. These rules are checked at API boundaries, where systems exchange data or accept untrusted input.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add types, assertions, validators, and tests around public APIs, complex invariants, and integration points.
Why use it?
It makes invalid input and broken assumptions fail clearly instead of causing confusing errors deeper in the system.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to add types, assertions, validators, and tests around public APIs, complex invariants, and integration points.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/contract-driven
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill contract-driven
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 804 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 $0.00033 $0.00804
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00080

Measured 2d ago against content hash 50a4c22ee2e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

contract-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.

.devin/skills/contract-driven/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Contract-driven

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger Crossing a public API boundary, guarding complex invariants, or hardening untrusted input or integration seams.
Authority Reversible local: writes only named local types, assertions, validators, and tests at contract boundaries; rollback is undo (delete the added code or revert the boundary change). No remote mutation.
Side effect Adds or refines local types, assertions, validators, and tests at contract boundaries.
Done Every planned contract is implemented at the appropriate static/test/debug/runtime layer and violations fail explicitly at the boundary.

Inputs

Required:

  • The requirements or specification for the operation whose contract is being designed.
  • The target source file or module containing the public API boundary, invariant, or untrusted seam.

Optional:

  • Existing tests that must continue to pass.

Procedure

  1. Plan: extract PRE/POST/INV from the requirements. Give each contract an ID and a one-line description (e.g. PRE-1: amount > 0; POST-1: balance == old(balance) - amount; INV-1: balance >= 0). Do not begin implementation until every planned contract has an ID. Done when: every planned contract has an ID and a one-line description.
  2. Select verification level: choose the strongest layer that can enforce each contract, preferring static over runtime:
    • Static type system or static_assert for type size, alignment, null/type safety, and exhaustiveness.
    • Test assertions for expensive O(n)+ properties.
    • Debug-only invariants for internal invariants.
    • Runtime guards for public API input, and always for external or untrusted input. If a property can be verified statically, do not add a runtime contract. Done when: every contract has a selected verification level, static preferred over runtime.
  3. Create: implement every PRE, POST, INV at its chosen level in the target local code. Runtime contracts, where used, must be active and not compiled out or disabled. Done when: every contract is implemented at its chosen level and runtime contracts are active.
  4. Verify: run the type checker, static analysis, and build. Contracts must compile and lint. Done when: the type checker, static analysis, and build pass with all contracts.
  5. Test: write one violation test per PRE/POST/INV proving the contract catches bad input or bad state. Static contracts are verified by the type checker; runtime contracts by violation tests that assert the boundary fails explicitly. Done when: one violation test per contract passes, proving the boundary fails on bad input or state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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 Changed · -19 tokens per session 50a4c22ee2e6
  2. 5d ago First seen · 51 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 1d1fb117abd0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

contract-driven is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 804 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.

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