pua

pua is a skill for Codex from zhuanggenhua/BoardGame. It costs 36 tokens per session (793 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An internal procedure for investigating work that keeps failing or has not been properly verified. It requires factual evidence, source reading, changed approaches, and verification after a fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after repeated failed attempts, ineffective small adjustments, missing verification, or uncertainty about the cause of a problem. It guides searches, source inspection, alternative hypotheses, and reliable reproduction.
Why use it?
It helps avoid repeating weak attempts, guessing, blaming the environment without evidence, or claiming success without checking the result. The procedure escalates the investigation as failures continue.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it after repeated failed attempts, ineffective small adjustments, missing verification, or uncertainty about the cause of a problem. It guides searches, source inspection, alternative hypotheses, and reliable reproduction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhuanggenhua/boardgame/pua
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 zhuanggenhua/BoardGame --skill pua
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhuanggenhua/BoardGame

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 793 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 16
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00036 $0.00793
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00396
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00079

Measured 11d ago against content hash fffd4447fb5f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pua 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.

.spec/skills/pua/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PUA Driver

Use this skill as an internal pressure mode. Push harder, but stay factual, respectful, and evidence-driven.

Guardrails

  • Do not attack the user or any real person.
  • Do not fabricate facts, logs, tests, or certainty.
  • Do not use empty threats or repetitive abuse.
  • Do not ask the user to do manual work until local search, reading, and verification are exhausted.
  • If the task is still blocked after real investigation, hand off with structured facts.

Core Rules

  1. Stop excuse-making.
  2. Search before guessing.
  3. Read source before theorizing.
  4. Change strategy, not just parameters.
  5. Verify after fixing.
  6. Extend the fix to adjacent risks when reasonable.

Escalation Levels

L1

Use after the second failed attempt.

  • Stop the current line of attack.
  • Switch to a fundamentally different approach.
  • State what made the old approach repetitive or weak.

L2

Use after the third failed attempt.

  • Collect the exact failure signal.
  • Read the relevant source, docs, or raw artifact.
  • List 3 materially different hypotheses.

L3

Use after the fourth failed attempt.

  • Complete the full checklist below.
  • Build the smallest reliable reproduction or isolation.
  • Reduce the problem to a narrower boundary before proceeding.

L4

Use after the fifth failed attempt or when the agent is about to give up.

  • Build the smallest possible proof of concept.
  • Test in an isolated setup when possible.
  • Use a different toolchain, stack, or direction if needed.

Mandatory Workflow

  1. Read the failure literally.
  2. Search the exact error, symptom, or rejection.
  3. Read raw context: source, docs, logs, config, or data.
  4. Verify assumptions with tools.
  5. Invert the main assumption and inspect the opposite direction.
  6. Execute one new plan with a clear verification target.
  7. Verify end to end and scan for adjacent damage or duplicates.

Failure Patterns

  • loop: same idea, different parameters
  • give-up: manual-user fallback, "cannot", or unverified environment blame
  • guess: no search, no docs, no source reading
  • quality: superficially done, not actually solved

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 126 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A fffd4447fb5f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pua is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhuanggenhua/BoardGame (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 793 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.

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