pressure-testing-a-spell

pressure-testing-a-spell is a skill for Claude Code from redhuntlabs/wizard. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,073 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test workflow that compares a discipline rule's behavior with and without the rule loaded, using situations designed to encourage shortcuts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for testing discipline-oriented skills, finding cases where an agent rationalizes breaking a rule, and returning a pass or refinement-needed result.
Why use it?
It shows whether the rule actually changes the agent's decisions instead of merely describing an expected behavior.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the wizard plugin — 37 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It is for testing discipline-oriented skills, finding cases where an agent rationalizes breaking a rule, and returning a pass or refinement-needed result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/redhuntlabs/wizard/pressure-testing-a-spell
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add redhuntlabs/wizard --skill pressure-testing-a-spell
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhuntlabs/wizard

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wizard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,073 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.
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 $0.00043 $0.01073
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00429
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00107

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c51b4dc041d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pressure-testing-a-spell 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.

skills/pressure-testing-a-spell/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pressure Testing a Spell

What this does

Tests a discipline-kind spell against rationalization. The test runs each scenario twice: once without the skill loaded (baseline) and once with it loaded (with-skill). The skill is only PASS if the with-skill run holds the rule that the baseline run violated.

This is what makes a discipline skill different from a description: proof it changes behavior.

When to use

  • Inside building-a-discipline-spell Stage 5
  • Inside refining-a-spell when a discipline skill changed
  • Anytime a user asks "does this rule actually work?"

What you bring (Inputs)

  • The draft discipline SKILL.md
  • The user's domain
  • Optionally: the user's known-bad past examples (where the rule was violated)

What you get (Output)

A PASS / NEEDS-REFINEMENT verdict, plus the specific rationalizations that slipped through if any.

How it works (Steps)

This is a workflow.

Stages

Stage 1: Construct pressure scenarios

Read the draft's Excuses and counters table. Each row implies a pressure scenario:

If the excuse is "It's a small fact, I don't need to verify"... ...then the pressure scenario is a small-fact request.

Use building-a-discipline-spell/pressure-scenarios-template.md for the scenario format. Generate 3 scenarios spanning at least 3 of the 5 pressure dimensions (speed, triviality, authority, confidence, familiarity).

Stage 2: Dispatch tester in DISCIPLINE MODE

Dispatch agents/spell-tester.md with:

  • The full draft text
  • The 3 pressure scenarios
  • The user's domain
  • Mode: discipline (the tester reads kind: discipline and routes itself)

Stage 3: Read the comparison results

The tester returns:

  • BASELINE pass results (without skill): which scenarios violated the rule, which rationalization was used
  • WITH-SKILL pass results: which rationalizations the skill caught, which slipped through

Stage 4: Decide verdict

Baseline result With-skill result Verdict
All 3 violated All 3 held PASS
All 3 violated 1-2 held NEEDS-REFINEMENT (skill is partial)
All 3 violated 0 held NEEDS-REFINEMENT (skill not changing behavior)
0-2 violated baseline (any) INVALID — scenarios weren't pressure-y enough; return to Stage 1

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 1mo ago First seen · 125 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A c51b4dc041d6

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pressure-testing-a-spell is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhuntlabs/wizard (11 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,073 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 2026-08-31.