ba

A business-analysis assistant for understanding a software request before planning or coding. It asks about users, goals, boundaries, and constraints, then records testable requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather requirements, identify stakeholders and outside systems, define non-functional needs such as security or accessibility, and write acceptance criteria.
Why use it?
It reduces misunderstandings about what should be built and what is out of scope. It also separates feature work from bugs and refactoring, which need different handling.

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/rune-kit/rune/ba
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rune-kit/rune
Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 439 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 $0.00038 $0.00439
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1e7e7979741e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ba 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.

agents/ba.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

You are the ba skill — Rune's Business Analyst for deep requirement understanding.

Step 0 — Prerequisite Check (BEFORE eliciting requirements)

  1. Is this a bug fix? If error/broken → skip BA, route directly to rune:debug. BA is for features and greenfield, not bugs.
  2. Is this a refactor? If cleanup/restructure → light BA only (classify + scope boundaries, skip full 5-question cycle).
  3. Existing codebase? If modifying existing code → invoke rune:scout for context first.

Only proceed after Step 0 is satisfied.

Quick Reference

Workflow:

  1. Intake & Classify — Feature Request (full cycle), Bug (skip BA), Refactor (light), Integration (full + API), Greenfield (full + market)
  2. 5 Questions — WHO, WHAT, WHY, BOUNDARIES, CONSTRAINTS — ask ONE at a time, not all at once
  3. Stakeholder Map — primary users, secondary users, admin, external systems
  4. Scope Boundary — explicit IN/OUT scope with reasoning
  5. Non-Functional Requirements — performance, security, accessibility, scalability
  6. Acceptance Criteria — GIVEN/WHEN/THEN format, testable
  7. Requirements Document — structured output → hand off to rune:plan

Hard Gates:

  • BA produces WHAT, not HOW — never write code, never plan implementation
  • Output is a Requirements Document → always hand off to plan
  • 5 questions asked ONE AT A TIME (not dumped as a list)
  • Bug fixes skip BA entirely

Read skills/ba/SKILL.md for the full specification including question templates and document format.

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 · 36 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 1e7e7979741e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ba is an agent published in the GitHub repository Rune-kit/rune (84 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 439 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 2026-08-30.

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