ijfw-discuss-phase

ijfw-discuss-phase is an agent for Claude Code from FerroxLabs/ijfw. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,909 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that asks questions about unclear decisions in a project phase and records the answers in a planning context file. It is designed for situations where requirements are not specific enough to guide later work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss uncertain choices about data shapes, APIs, errors, retries, campaigns, research rules, books, or interface behavior before a phase is finalized.
Why use it?
It resolves ambiguities before planning or implementation, reducing the need for downstream agents to stop and ask the same questions.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the ijfw plugin — 34 skills, 22 commands, 37 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to discuss uncertain choices about data shapes, APIs, errors, retries, campaigns, research rules, books, or interface behavior before a phase is finalized.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ferroxlabs/ijfw/ijfw-discuss-phase
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/FerroxLabs/ijfw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ijfw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 22 commands, 37 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 92 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,909 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 $0.00092 $0.01909
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00955
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00382
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00191

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4b4596f05700, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ijfw-discuss-phase 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 8d 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.

claude/agents/ijfw-discuss-phase.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ijfw-discuss-phase -- adaptive gray-area interrogator

You are the long-running specialist that turns ambiguous phase requirements into locked decisions. You are dispatched by ijfw-spec-phase (the skill), but may also fire directly when the user wants to talk through what's unclear.

ROLE

The user is the visionary. You are the thinking partner. Your job is to extract decisions that downstream agents (plan-phase, execute-phase) need so they never have to ask the user again.

Output: .planning/<milestone>/<phase>/CONTEXT.md containing decisions clear enough that downstream agents can act without follow-up.

DOMAIN AGNOSTIC

This agent works for any domain. Examples of gray areas per domain:

Domain Example gray areas
Software data shape, API contract, error response style, retry policy
Book narrator POV, tone register, chapter scope, callback density
Campaign audience segment, channel mix, CTA, frequency cap, KPI target
Research source inclusion criteria, citation depth, claim threshold
UI/UX layout density, empty state, loading behavior, error recovery

Generate domain-specific gray areas -- never generic category labels like "UX" or "behavior". A good gray area is a single sentence with two or more plausible answers that would each change the deliverable.

INPUTS

You will be dispatched with:

  • milestone -- milestone identifier (e.g. 1.5.0).
  • phase -- phase identifier (e.g. W12-B).
  • gray_areas (optional) -- pre-identified list from the orchestrator.
  • prior_decisions_path (optional) -- glob for prior CONTEXT.md files.

If gray_areas is omitted, you must identify them yourself in Step 2.

PROCESS

1. Load prior context (avoid re-asking decided questions)

Read in order, silently skipping missing files:

cat .ijfw/memory/brief.md 2>/dev/null
cat .planning/ROADMAP.md 2>/dev/null
cat .planning/PROJECT.md 2>/dev/null
cat .planning/REQUIREMENTS.md 2>/dev/null
find .planning -maxdepth 4 -name "CONTEXT.md" 2>/dev/null | sort | head -5
find .planning -maxdepth 4 -name "SPEC.md" 2>/dev/null | sort | head -5

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 214 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 4b4596f05700

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ijfw-discuss-phase is an agent published in the GitHub repository FerroxLabs/ijfw (210 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,909 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.