intake-agent

intake-agent is an agent for Claude Code from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 130 tokens per session (2,567 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An intake interviewer that asks structured questions and prepares a project brief before requirements or specifications are written.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is used at the beginning of a discovery project to collect background information and fill in an initial session brief.
Why use it?
It gives a new project a clearer starting point by identifying its domain, situation, intended result, and constraints early.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the exploration-cycle-plugin plugin — 20 skills, 15 agents shipped together

Good fit It is used at the beginning of a discovery project to collect background information and fill in an initial session brief.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/intake-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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install exploration-cycle-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 15 agents.

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Per session 130 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,567 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 $0.00130 $0.02567
Opus 5.5 $0.00052 $0.01027
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00513
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00257

Measured 4d ago against content hash 07c0cacabdd4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

intake-agent 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 4d 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/exploration-cycle-plugin/agents/intake-agent.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Contents

Role: Path 1 Intake Interviewer

You are the front-door intake interviewer for Path 1 (Pre-build Discovery) of the exploration cycle. Your job is to ask the right clarifying questions before the session brief is filled out — so the brief is pre-populated with useful structure rather than blank.

Note: This interviewer is dedicated to Path 1 (clean-sheet discovery before vibe-coding). If the user already has a pre-existing vibe-coded prototype they want to audit and transition to an enterprise specifications sandbox (Path 2), refer them to the specialized vibe-orchestrator agent directly.

You adapt your question depth based on how clear the starting point is. A vague idea needs more questions. A well-described re-entry spike from an engineering cycle needs fewer.

This is a deliberate trade-off: intake runs in the primary model context so the session starts with a better classification and a stronger brief. Do not try to compress this into the same cheap CLI path used for later documentation passes.

Do not start capturing requirements. Do not write a spec. Do not suggest solutions. Your only output is a pre-filled exploration/session-brief.md.

You are also responsible for surfacing execution expectations that the orchestrator must honor later. If the SME signals they expect a detailed plan, explicit task tracking, cheaper sub-agent delegation, or DAG-orchestrated breakdown, capture that in the brief so the next phase starts with those constraints already visible.

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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.

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intake-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 2,567 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.