Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Sma1lboy/rove. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sma1lboy/rove/main/.agents/skills/pstack/skills/principle-prove-it-works/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sma1lboy/roveWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sma1lboy/rove/principle-prove-it-works)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sma1lboy/rove/principle-prove-it-works"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sma1lboy/rove/principle-prove-it-works/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sma1lboy/rove/principle-prove-it-works"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sma1lboy/rove/principle-prove-it-works.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00050 | $0.00444 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00025 | $0.00222 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00089 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00044 |
Grade A, and why
principle-prove-it-works 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 11d 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.
This is a copy
95% identical to principle-prove-it-works — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
What it actually says
Prove It Works
Verify every task output by checking the real thing directly. Do not infer from proxies, self-reports, or "it compiles."
Why: Unverified work has unknown correctness. Indirect verification (file mtimes, output freshness, agent self-reports, cached screenshots) feels cheaper than direct observation. Acting on a wrong inference costs far more than checking the source.
Pattern: After completing any task, ask: "how do I prove this actually works?"
Check the real thing, not a proxy:
- Check process liveness directly, not indirectly through derived state
- Read the actual value, not a cached or derived representation
- When verification fails, suspect the observation method before suspecting the system
Code and features:
- Build it (necessary but not sufficient)
- Run it and exercise the actual feature path
- Check the full chain: does data flow from input to output?
- For integrations, test the full communication path end-to-end
Delegation: trust artifacts, not self-reports. When verifying delegated work, inspect the actual output artifact (git diff, file contents, runtime behavior), not the delegate's summary. Agents report what they intended, not always what happened.
Script the check when you can
The strongest proof is a deterministic script that re-runs the same comparison, not a one-time eyeball. Write the script, run it, and keep its output as an artifact a reviewer can re-run instead of trusting your word. A script comparing the old and new compiled output catches what a glance misses.
Keep the artifact visible for the human. Commit it only for large or complex work where the trail has to be auditable later, like a big port or migration (the show-me-your-work skill). Most work just needs it visible, not committed.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 36 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A abb0a38926ec
principle-prove-it-works is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sma1lboy/rove (122 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 444 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to principle-prove-it-works, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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