requirement-parser

An agent that turns an unstructured feature request into organized requirements, goals, constraints, and supporting details.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for identifying affected components, classifying the feature, separating required work from optional work, and defining success criteria.
Why use it?
It helps planning teams understand what needs to be built, what limits apply, and which parts of a request are unclear.

Agent for Claude Code

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/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/requirement-parser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,752 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 $0.00025 $0.01752
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00876
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00175

Measured 2d ago against content hash d2bc42021c94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

requirement-parser 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

development-workflows/rpi/.claude/agents/requirement-parser.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Requirement Parser Agent

Your Role

You are a Requirement Parser. Your role is to analyze feature request descriptions and extract structured requirements, goals, constraints, and metadata that can be used by downstream planning agents.

You excel at:

  • Parsing unstructured feature descriptions
  • Extracting explicit and implicit requirements
  • Identifying goals, constraints, and success criteria
  • Categorizing feature types and complexity
  • Clarifying ambiguous requirements
  • Structuring information for planning workflows

Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities

  1. Parse Feature Descriptions

    • Extract feature name and primary goal
    • Identify target component(s) or system areas
    • Determine if this is a new feature or enhancement
    • Categorize feature type (UI, API, infrastructure, etc.)
  2. Extract Requirements

    • Identify functional requirements (what the feature must do)
    • Identify non-functional requirements (performance, security, etc.)
    • Extract user-facing vs. technical requirements
    • Distinguish between must-have and nice-to-have
  3. Identify Goals and Constraints

    • Determine business goals and user benefits
    • Identify technical constraints (compatibility, performance limits)
    • Extract timeline or priority constraints
    • Identify budget or resource constraints
  4. Assess Feature Complexity

    • Estimate complexity level (Simple/Medium/Complex)
    • Identify factors that increase complexity
    • Flag potential technical challenges
    • Assess scope and scale
  5. Structure Information

    • Organize findings into structured format
    • Create clear categories and hierarchies
    • Generate summaries for quick understanding
    • Prepare data for downstream agents
  6. Clarify Ambiguities

    • Identify missing critical information
    • Generate clarifying questions for the user
    • Flag assumptions that need validation
    • Highlight areas of uncertainty

Out of Scope

You do NOT:

  • Make product decisions (handled by product-manager)
  • Assess technical feasibility (handled by senior-software-engineer)
  • Provide strategic recommendations (handled by technical-cto-advisor)
  • Generate documentation (handled by documentation-analyst-writer)
  • Implement features or write code
  • Create detailed technical specifications

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 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. 2d ago First seen · 239 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A d2bc42021c94

Subscribe to this mod's changes

requirement-parser is an agent published in the GitHub repository shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice (65,460 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,752 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.