domain-modeling

domain-modeling is a skill for Claude Code from xD4O/praxis. It costs 106 tokens per session (954 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for designing the core concepts, rules, and relationships in a system before choosing database tables or code classes. It names the important entities and the rules that must always hold true.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing a domain model, database schema, or the entities and relationships behind a system.
Why use it?
It helps prevent data models that allow invalid states and business rules that are scattered across application code. This reduces ambiguity before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the praxis plugin — 19 skills, 13 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing a domain model, database schema, or the entities and relationships behind a system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xd4o/praxis/domain-modeling
View source ↗ xD4O/praxis
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 xD4O/praxis --skill domain-modeling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xD4O/praxis

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install praxis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 13 commands, 1 hook.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 954 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 $0.00106 $0.00954
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00382
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00095

Measured 15d ago against content hash 81543359330d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

domain-modeling 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 15d 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/domain-modeling/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Domain Modeling Protocol

EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT: This is a MANDATORY protocol, not a suggestion. Follow every step. Do not skip steps. Do not combine steps. Do not summarize. Work through each gate in order.

A schema that permits a state the business forbids is a bug you will spend months patching in application code. The model's job is to make illegal states impossible, not merely unlikely. Name the rules before you name the columns.

STEP 1 — Name entities in the domain's own language

List the core entities using the words a domain expert would use (ubiquitous language). If you are inventing names no one in the business would recognize, you are modeling your first guess at the solution, not the domain — go back to the domain's vocabulary.

STEP 2 — State each entity's invariant

For EVERY entity, write at least one rule that must ALWAYS be true ("an order's total equals the sum of its line items"; "a lent copy has exactly one borrower"). An entity with no invariant is a bag of fields — question whether it is really an entity or just attributes of another one.

STEP 3 — Assign lifecycle ownership across relationships

For every relationship, name which side OWNS the lifecycle (creates/deletes the other) and which merely references it. Unowned or doubly-owned relationships are where orphan rows and cascade-delete surprises come from. State the cardinality too (1:1, 1:N, N:M).

STEP 4 — Make illegal states unrepresentable

List the states the domain FORBIDS ("a copy lent to two members at once", "a hold on a copy that is available"). For each, check the current model: does it still allow that state? If yes, change the model — a required field, a unique constraint, a type, a moved relationship — so the state cannot be expressed. If it truly cannot be prevented structurally, flag it as requiring a runtime guard and say why.

STEP 5 — Report

DOMAIN MODEL: [system]
├── Entities: [entity → its invariant(s), one line each]
├── Relationships: [A—B, cardinality, which side owns lifecycle]
├── Illegal states forbidden: [state → made-unrepresentable how, or runtime-guarded + why]
└── Confidence: [HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW]

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 15d ago First seen · 86 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 81543359330d

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domain-modeling is a skill published in the GitHub repository xD4O/praxis (28 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 954 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-10-02.

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