state-sync-pruning

state-sync-pruning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PlamenTSV/plamen. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,641 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-audit skill for blockchain node state synchronisation and pruning. It checks how nodes catch up, remove old state, and rely on checkpoints without silently corrupting their local state.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing full, fast, or snapshot-based sync; pruning logic; checkpoint validation; and protection against state-growth attacks.
Why use it?
It helps find bugs that can make a node diverge from the network or trust an invalid checkpoint. It also looks for races and attacks that cause state to grow without limit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for reviewing full, fast, or snapshot-based sync; pruning logic; checkpoint validation; and protection against state-growth attacks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plamentsv/plamen/state-sync-pruning
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PlamenTSV/plamen --skill state-sync-pruning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PlamenTSV/plamen

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,641 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 $0.00028 $0.02641
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01321
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00528
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00264

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2f1f5edc54f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

state-sync-pruning 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.

agents/skills/injectable/l1/state-sync-pruning/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Injectable Skill: State Sync and Pruning

L1 trigger: L1_PATTERN=true AND (sync/ OR snap_sync OR fast_sync OR statesync OR pruning OR snapshot/ detected in recon subsystem map) Inject Into: depth-state-trace or depth-edge-case Language: Go and Rust Finding prefix: [SS-N] Status: v0.1 draft, Round 4 exemplars pending

Orchestrator Decomposition Guide

  • Sections 1, 2: depth-state-trace (sync protocol state)
  • Sections 3, 4: depth-edge-case (pruning races, growth)
  • Section 5: depth-external (checkpoint trust)

When This Skill Activates

Recon identifies state sync or pruning code. State sync is the mechanism by which a new node catches up without replaying the entire history; pruning is how an existing node garbage-collects old state. Both are subtle: a bug in either can corrupt the node's state silently, leading to later divergence.

1. Sync Mode Fingerprinting

Identify the sync mode(s) supported:

Mode Description Trust model
Full sync Replay every block from genesis Trustless (modulo consensus rules)
Fast sync Download headers + recent state trie Trusts weak subjectivity checkpoint
Snap sync (Ethereum) Download flat account snapshots in ranges Healing phase verifies root
Warp sync (Parity) Download a snapshot of state at a past block Trusts snapshot root
State sync (Cosmos) Download state at a trusted height from peers Trusts a configured height/hash
Checkpoint sync (Beacon) Trusts a recent finalized checkpoint root Weak subjectivity
Portal Network Content-addressed historical storage Trustless per item

Write the mode(s) into the finding header.

2. Root / Checkpoint Trust

Every non-full sync mode depends on a root or checkpoint. Verify the trust chain:

  1. Where does the checkpoint come from? Hardcoded? CLI flag? RPC? Config file?
  2. What signs it? Nothing (pure trust)? A hardcoded key? The current validator set?
  3. Validity period: is the checkpoint rejected if older than X? Stale checkpoints permit long-range attacks.
  4. Rollback: if a checkpoint turns out to be invalid mid-sync, does the node recover cleanly?

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 lines

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 · 202 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 2f1f5edc54f2

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state-sync-pruning is a skill published in the GitHub repository PlamenTSV/plamen (295 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,641 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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