constraint-inversion

constraint-inversion is a skill for Claude Code from sjarmak/agent-workflows. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,303 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-review method that tests what happens when one stated requirement or limitation is removed or reversed at a time. It compares the results and maps which constraints other decisions depend on.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine a design document, architecture plan, product requirements document, or project plan. It explores alternative designs and identifies constraints that are difficult to change.
Why use it?
It helps separate requirements that truly shape the design from assumptions that were never necessary. This can reveal simpler or more flexible options before implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the agent-workflows plugin — 28 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sjarmak/agent-workflows/constraint-inversion
Any agent
npx skills add sjarmak/agent-workflows --skill constraint-inversion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sjarmak/agent-workflows

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks.

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
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Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01151
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00461
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00230

Measured 5d ago against content hash 669eae92a743, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

constraint-inversion 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 5d ago.

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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/constraint-inversion/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Constraint Inversion — What-If Removal. Takes a design with stated constraints and spawns N agents, each removing or inverting ONE constraint to explore what becomes possible without it, then synthesizes findings into a constraint dependency map that reveals which constraints are truly load-bearing vs merely assumed.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS — format: [N] [path/to/design.md or inline description] where N is optional constraint-removal agent count (default: 5, min 3, max 7)

Parse Arguments

Extract:

  • agent_count: the optional leading integer (default 5, min 3, max 7)
  • input: path to a design document, architecture doc, PRD, or project plan — or an inline description of the design and its constraints

If the input is missing or unclear, ask the user to clarify before proceeding.

Phase 1: Extract and Confirm Constraints

If a file path is given: read it and extract every stated or implied constraint — technical, organizational, temporal, financial, compatibility, and operational.

If inline: parse the description for the same.

Prepare a design brief that includes:

  • What is being built (one paragraph summary)
  • Key design decisions already made
  • Dependencies (internal and external)

Then prepare a constraint inventory — a numbered list of every constraint found. For each constraint:

  • Name: short label (e.g., "Backward compatibility with v2 API")
  • Type: one of Technical, Organizational, Financial, Temporal, Compatibility, Operational, Regulatory
  • Source: where the constraint comes from (explicit requirement, assumed convention, inherited from prior decision, regulatory, etc.)
  • Current impact: how this constraint shapes the design today

Present the design brief and constraint inventory to the user. Ask:

  • Are any constraints missing from this list?
  • Are any listed constraints actually already relaxed or negotiable?
  • Which N constraints should agents remove? (Or let the skill auto-select the N most design-shaping ones.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

Changes

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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. 5d ago First seen · 213 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 669eae92a743

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constraint-inversion is a skill published in the GitHub repository sjarmak/agent-workflows (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,303 tokens. 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.

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