tlaplus-split-action

A TLA+ editing tool that divides one state-machine action into two sequential actions by adding an intermediate program-counter state. TLA+ is a language for describing and checking how systems change over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Splitting actions in TLA+ specifications, updating state transitions, preserving unchanged variables, and maintaining type checks and naming.
Why use it?
It lets a model represent an intermediate step when one action is too broad or needs finer-grained behaviour.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tlaplus/agentskills/tlaplus-split-action
Any agent
npx skills add tlaplus/AgentSkills --skill tlaplus-split-action
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tlaplus/AgentSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,744 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00081 $0.02744
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01372
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00549
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00274

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2b2eebee8e75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tlaplus-split-action 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.

skills/tlaplus-split-action/SKILL.md · 323 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 323 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Split TLA+ Action into Two Actions

Split an existing TLA+ action into two sequential actions by introducing a new intermediate pc state. This is useful for modeling finer-grained atomicity or adding intermediate steps to an action sequence.

Prerequisites

  • The specification must have a pc variable (or equivalent like state, phase) that tracks action sequencing. If not, create one.
  • The action to split must update pc to transition between states

Overview

Given an action like:

ActionX_1(thread) ==
    /\ pc[thread] = PC_ActionX_1
    /\ pc' = [pc EXCEPT ![thread] = PC_Start]
    /\ y' = y + 2
    /\ UNCHANGED <<x, z>>

Splitting it creates:

ActionX_1(thread) ==
    /\ pc[thread] = PC_ActionX_1
    /\ pc' = [pc EXCEPT ![thread] = PC_ActionX_2]   \* Leads to new intermediate state
    /\ y' = y + 2                                   \* Original logic (or subset per user)
    /\ UNCHANGED <<x, z>>

ActionX_2(thread) ==                                \* New action
    /\ pc[thread] = PC_ActionX_2
    /\ pc' = [pc EXCEPT ![thread] = PC_Start]       \* Original destination
    /\ UNCHANGED <<x, y, z>>                        \* All vars unchanged (or subset per user)

Workflow

Step 0: Add pc variable if not present

If the specification lacks a pc variable, first use the "tlaplus-add-variable" skill to add pc variable. If the actions are thread- or process-specific, pc variable must be a function of the thread or process identifier to a string constant. For example,

PC_Begin == "PC_Begin"
PC_ActionX_1 == "PC_ActionX_1"
...

Init ==
    /\ pc = [thread \in Threads |-> PC_Begin]
    /\ ...

Step 1: Analyze the Target Action

Read the specification and identify:

  1. The action to split
  2. Its current pc guard (entry state)
  3. Its pc' assignment (exit state)
  4. All variable updates in the action
  5. The UNCHANGED statement
  6. The naming convention used (numbered suffix like _0, _1, etc.)

Step 2: Determine the New PC State Name

Read the full file on GitHub · 323 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. 2d ago First seen · 323 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 2b2eebee8e75

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tlaplus-split-action is a skill published in the GitHub repository tlaplus/AgentSkills (36 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 2,744 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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