Agent skill

Pit Of Success

by jnsahaj in jnsahaj/skills

Review or refactor code so the correct behavior is the default path; use when APIs, setters, hooks, helpers, or component props have footguns where a natural call bypasses required semantics.

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Install Pit Of Success

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jnsahaj/skills --skill pit-of-success -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jnsahaj/skills pit-of-success --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jnsahaj/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/pit-of-success .claude/skills/pit-of-success && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
pit-of-success
GitHub stars
105
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~500 tokens
SKILL.md length
283 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
8
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Review or refactor code so the correct behavior is the default path; use when APIs, setters, hooks, helpers, or component props have footguns where a natural call bypasses required semantics.

  • Works in 5 steps: Find the public seam being used:… → Run the footgun test: “If someone does… → Move the invariant into the seam.… → …
  • Component props have footguns where a natural call bypasses required semantics
  • SKILL.md covers Steps and Rules
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Pit Of Success is an agent skill from jnsahaj/skills. Review or refactor code so the correct behavior is the default path; use when APIs, setters, hooks, helpers, or component props have footguns where a natural call bypasses required semantics.

Its SKILL.md is about 500 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development. The repository describes itself as: Agent skills I use daily.

When your agent uses it

  • Component props have footguns where a natural call bypasses required semantics

Example prompts

  • “/pit-of-success”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Find the public seam being used: exported function, hook return value, setter, component prop, route body, schema, or command. Then search…
  2. Run the footgun test: “If someone does the obvious thing without knowing the hidden helper or convention, does behavior break?” Examples…
  3. Move the invariant into the seam. Prefer, in order
  4. Delete bypasses and duplicate meanings. Replace local wrappers, parallel helper names, and comments that explain the trap with one shared…
  5. Prove the pit with one check: a focused test or type/schema assertion showing the obvious call now preserves behavior, plus a grep…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 170b0b9. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Pit Of Success loads about 500 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 52 tokens; SKILL.md has 283 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~52
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~500

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 283 words (~500 tokens).

“Make misuse hard and the obvious call correct.”

— opening of SKILL.md by jnsahaj
name
pit-of-success
user-invocable
true

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/pit-of-success of jnsahaj/skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 170b0b9

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in jnsahaj/skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Pit Of Success

What does Pit Of Success do?

Review or refactor code so the correct behavior is the default path; use when APIs, setters, hooks, helpers, or component props have footguns where a natural call bypasses required semantics. Pit Of Success is an agent skill from jnsahaj/skills. Review or refactor code so the correct behavior is the default path; use when APIs, setters, hooks, helpers, or component props have footguns where a natural call bypasses required semantics.

When should I use Pit Of Success?

Pit Of Success fits situations like: component props have footguns where a natural call bypasses required semantics.

How do I install Pit Of Success in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jnsahaj/skills --skill pit-of-success -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/pit-of-success in jnsahaj/skills) into .claude/skills/pit-of-success in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Pit Of Success in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jnsahaj/skills --skill pit-of-success -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/pit-of-success in jnsahaj/skills) into .agents/skills/pit-of-success in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Pit Of Success in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jnsahaj/skills --skill pit-of-success -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/pit-of-success, .gemini/skills/pit-of-success, .github/skills/pit-of-success and .opencode/skills/pit-of-success in your project.

What does Pit Of Success need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Pit Of Success is instructions for the agent only.

Does Pit Of Success access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Pit Of Success safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Pit Of Success use?

No licence was found for Pit Of Success or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Pit Of Success use?

About 500 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Pit Of Success?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Pit Of Success: Vercel Composition Patterns (supabase/supabase, 111k stars), Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 297k stars), Typescript Advanced Types (rolling-scopes/rsschool-app, 10k stars) and PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Pit Of Success?

jnsahaj (a GitHub user) maintains it in jnsahaj/skills, which has 105 GitHub stars. The repository holds 8 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: jnsahaj/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.