fallback-source-presence-sufficiency

fallback-source-presence-sufficiency is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ychampion/cskill-agents. It costs 34 tokens per session (398 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A source-reconciliation rule for cases where a configured source is only a fallback. It treats an already-created resource as valid even if it came from a different source.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when syncing extension resources: preserve any existing materialized source for fallback entries, while still enforcing exact source choices for authoritative entries.
Why use it?
It prevents the system from replacing useful existing material merely because the fallback source name differs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when syncing extension resources: preserve any existing materialized source for fallback entries, while still enforcing exact source choices for authoritative entries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ychampion/cskill-agents/fallback-source-presence-sufficiency
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ychampion/cskill-agents --skill fallback-source-presence-sufficiency
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ychampion/cskill-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 398 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 $0.00034 $0.00398
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00199
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00040

Measured 9d ago against content hash 00e07994ab48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fallback-source-presence-sufficiency 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.

agents/claude-code/skills/fallback-source-presence-sufficiency/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

SKILL: Fallback Source Presence Sufficiency

Domain: extensions-mcp
Trigger: Apply when a configuration entry represents a fallback source and existing materialized state from another source should be preserved if it already satisfies presence. Source Pattern: Distilled from reviewed extension lifecycle and source-reconciliation patterns.

Core Method

Distinguish fallback intent from authoritative source declarations. If the declared source exists only to satisfy the missing case, then the presence of any already-materialized source is enough and should be treated as up to date. This prevents the reconciler from overwriting valid state merely because the default source differs from the source that actually materialized the resource.

Key Rules

  • Carry a flag that distinguishes fallback/default declarations from authoritative source directives.
  • For fallback entries, compare on presence first and skip source-equality enforcement once materialized state exists.
  • Preserve seeded, mirrored, or previously installed sources when they already satisfy the resource contract.
  • Restrict this relaxation to fallback intent only; authoritative declarations should still drive updates when the source changes.
  • Document why fallback entries are special so future maintainers do not "simplify" the logic back into destructive churn.

Example Application

If a package manager uses an official registry as a fallback only when no mirror is installed, leave an already-seeded internal mirror alone. The fallback declaration should not force a re-download from the official registry just because the source URLs differ.

Anti-Patterns (What NOT to do)

  • Do not compare fallback declarations against materialized sources as if they were hard directives; you will overwrite healthy state unnecessarily.
  • Do not erase the distinction between "default if missing" and "must come from here"; they drive very different reconcile behavior.
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 · 29 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 00e07994ab48

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fallback-source-presence-sufficiency is a skill published in the GitHub repository ychampion/cskill-agents (36 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 398 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.