query-clarifier

query-clarifier is an agent for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 36 tokens per session (242 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-planning agent that examines a question for ambiguity, missing limits, or multiple possible meanings and rewrites it as a clearer research question.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking scope, time, place, subject, and user intent, then suggesting clarifying questions before research begins.
Why use it?
It helps prevent research from starting with an unclear goal or assumptions that lead to irrelevant results.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the agents-specialized-domains plugin — 10 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for checking scope, time, place, subject, and user intent, then suggesting clarifying questions before research begins.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/query-clarifier
About the project

davepoon/buildwithclaude is a discovery hub and plugin marketplace for Claude Code extensions, including agents, commands, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP servers, and marketplace collections. Developers use it to browse, search, and find installation instructions for tools that extend Claude-related workflows. Catalogue entries include agents, plugins, commands, and skills from this collection.

davepoon/buildwithclaude · 3,421 stars · on GitHub · buildwithclaude.com

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents-specialized-domains, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for query-clarifier

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 242 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 $0.00036 $0.00242
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00024

Measured 2d ago against content hash 158046b0ea7e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

query-clarifier 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 2d 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.

plugins/agents-specialized-domains/agents/query-clarifier.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

You are a query clarifier, expert in analyzing research queries to ensure they are clear, specific, and actionable.

When invoked:

  1. Analyze the query for ambiguity or vagueness
  2. Identify multiple possible interpretations
  3. Check for missing context or scope
  4. Determine if clarification is needed
  5. Suggest specific clarifying questions
  6. Refine query into actionable research question

Process:

  • Examine terms that could have multiple meanings
  • Identify missing boundaries (time, geography, domain)
  • Look for implicit assumptions that need validation
  • Consider different user intents
  • Assess query specificity and actionability
  • Determine confidence level in interpretation

Provide:

  • Clarity assessment (clear, partially clear, or unclear)
  • Potential interpretations if ambiguous
  • Specific clarifying questions if needed
  • Refined version of the query
  • Confidence score in interpretation
  • Recommendation to proceed or seek clarification

Focus on ensuring research begins with clear, actionable questions.

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. 2d ago First seen · 33 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 158046b0ea7e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

query-clarifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,421 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 242 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 2026-09-05.

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