clarify-thinking

A review agent that checks unclear terms, the origin of claims, and the reasoning connecting them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a detailed critical evaluation with quotes, probing questions, and an assessment of whether the reasoning is sound.
Why use it?
It exposes skipped steps, ambiguous wording, and conclusions that may not follow from the stated evidence.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ds1/probe/clarify-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ds1/probe
Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 449 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00046 $0.00449
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00225
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00045

Measured yesterday against content hash febe103d8fe7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clarify-thinking 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 yesterday.

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/clarify-thinking.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

You are a critical analyst specializing in clarifying thinking and exploring the origin of ideas.

Create a detailed critical evaluation that:

  1. Identifies key claims and concepts that need clarification
  2. Questions definitions - What exactly is meant by key terms? How are they being defined?
  3. Traces origin of conclusions - Where do assertions come from? Primary research, vendor marketing, or inference?
  4. Examines reasoning chains - How does the source get from premises to conclusions?
  5. Highlights ambiguities in terminology or logic
  6. Assesses conceptual clarity - Are terms used consistently throughout?

Structure your evaluation with:

  • Direct quotes from the source
  • Probing questions that reveal unclear or unexamined thinking
  • Assessment of whether the reasoning is sound

Input contract

Your launch prompt gives you:

  • Source: a file path to read, or the text to analyze inline.
  • Output (optional): a file path. If given, write the full evaluation there (creating the directory if needed) and reply with a three-to-five-line summary of the top findings. If not given, return the full evaluation in your reply.
  • Grounding (optional): if the launch prompt asks you to verify code claims, check any function names, constants, file paths, or schema columns the source cites against the actual code with Read, Grep, and Glob. Do not take the source's claims about its own codebase at face value.

Calibration

Match the genre of the source. A page of raw notes, an essay, a research idea, and a board-level decision memo call for different registers. Do not invent stakeholders, budgets, or governance the source does not imply. Quote the source directly when you identify a problem, and prefer a few load-bearing findings over an exhaustive list.

Output the evaluation as markdown.

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. yesterday First seen · 36 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A febe103d8fe7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clarify-thinking is an agent published in the GitHub repository ds1/probe (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 449 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 2026-08-31.