solution-sourcing

solution-sourcing is a skill for Codex from tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills. It costs 145 tokens per session (1,463 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making method for choosing where technical solutions should come from and how to test them before adopting them.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for selecting new modules, investigating technical blockers, addressing worsening code structure, and exploring unfamiliar technical areas.
Why use it?
It helps avoid designing from memory, choosing the first library you find, or building something that already exists. It also records why a decision was made.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit It is for selecting new modules, investigating technical blockers, addressing worsening code structure, and exploring unfamiliar technical areas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills/solution-sourcing
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.

Any agent
npx skills add tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills --skill solution-sourcing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,463 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 $0.00145 $0.01463
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00732
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00146

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1ba1400693e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

solution-sourcing 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 9d 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.

own-skills/solution-sourcing/SKILL.md · 75 lines

What it actually says

方案来源方法论(Solution Sourcing)

本 Skill 回答一个问题:方案从哪里来。默认坏习惯是"接到问题就自己想"——正确姿势是先判定问题的类型,类型决定去哪里找方案、怎么验证。

主干五步(所有类型共用)

  1. 定义问题与成功判据:先写下"什么算解决/什么算成功",再去找方案。判据先于方案存在,防止拿着锤子找钉子。
  2. 来源扫描:方向由类型决定(见判型表)——向外搜、向内采证、或做 spike。
  3. 候选 ≥2 与取舍:至少两个可行候选,且把"什么都不做/维持现状"列为基线候选之一。逐候选写代价,不假装没有代价。
  4. 最小验证:用最小成本证实或证伪关键假设——spike、原型、基线测试。影响面越大、可逆性越差,越必须先验证再拍板。
  5. 决策落盘:项目用 openspec 就写进当前 change 的 design.md;否则遵循项目自己的决策记录惯例。落盘必须含「现有方案调研」小节(见下)。

判型表

触发场景 来源扫描方向 最小验证形态
A 引入型 要做新模块 / 新能力(状态管理、富文本、鉴权……) 先搜市面成熟方案:英文网络最佳实践、活跃开源项目、同类产品做法 spike 或最小集成验证
B 障碍型 实现途中撞上具体技术问题(怪 bug、性能墙、平台限制) 先假设"别人一定遇到过":搜已知解法、官方 issue、社区讨论 本地复现 + 验证解法
C 退化型 代码异味、维护性下降、bug 向同一结构聚集 内部证据为主:软信号采集 + 归因;外部只查"业界对这类结构的惯例" 护栏先行——先补行为基线测试再动刀
D 探索型 新领域,市面没有成熟方案 时间盒 spike,两个方案对比胜于一个方案迭代 判据先行的对比实验,产物进原型区不进主干

各型最小动作清单

A 引入型

  • 搜索关键词至少覆盖:问题域英文名 + "best practices"、候选库名 + "comparison / alternatives"。
  • 候选评估维度:维护活跃度、与现有技术栈契合度、迁移成本、锁定风险。
  • 纪律:buy-before-build——自建必须写明"为什么每个现成候选都不适用",写不出来就用现成的。
  • 反向纪律:不追潮流——"更新/更火"不构成理由,收益必须落在本项目的具体判据上。

B 障碍型

  • 时间盒更短:先花 10–20 分钟搜已知解法,再决定是否自己深挖。
  • 找到解法后必须本地复现问题 + 验证解法,不直接照抄粘贴。
  • 解法影响公共结构(依赖版本、构建配置)时升级为 A 型走完整评估。

C 退化型

  • 判据是变化理由的条数,不是行数。软信号(超长函数、超多公开方法、状态字段堆积、同文件反复探针阅读)只触发复核,不直接触发重构。
  • 归因先于动刀:回答"这个结构有几条会独立变化的理由",按用例纵切,不按技术层横切。
  • 硬约束:行为不变是第一属性;护栏先行,覆盖不足的分支先补行为基线测试(用 commit 顺序证明);发现真 bug 只登记不顺手修。
  • 收益必须诚实归因,净收益为零就写零。

D 探索型

  • 先写成功判据和时间盒,到点强制收敛,防止无限探索。
  • 至少两个正交方向的尝试对比,胜者进入 A/B 型流程正式化。
  • 产物落在项目的原型区(如 prototypes/),不直接进主干。

「现有方案调研」小节格式

A / B 型方案文档必须包含此小节,作为放行前置:

## 现有方案调研
- 候选1:<名称>(<出处链接/来源>)——<不采用理由 / 采用理由>
- 候选2:……
- 基线候选(什么都不做):<维持现状的代价>
- 结论:<采用谁,或为什么自建>

缺此小节的 A/B 型方案,评审方应打回,不进入实现。

与项目契约的关系

本 Skill 只定义跨项目稳定的方法论。项目和团队契约(AGENTS.md、角色文件、openspec 约定)定义谁判型、谁调研、谁打回;两者冲突时,当前生效的项目契约优先。

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 75 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A 1ba1400693e1

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solution-sourcing is a skill published in the GitHub repository tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 1,463 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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