Claude-Pipeline: Agent for Claude Code

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requirements-crystallizer is an agent for Claude Code from TheAstrelo/Claude-Pipeline. It costs 25 tokens per session (709 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A question-driven assistant that turns vague software requests into clear, structured requirements briefs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify scope, expected behavior, edge cases, integrations, and constraints, then document the result in a brief.
Why use it?
It exposes missing details and ambiguities before implementation, reducing guesswork and rework.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

This is TheAstrelo/Claude-Pipeline's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Claude-Pipeline itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Claude-Pipeline configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to TheAstrelo/Claude-Pipeline. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheAstrelo/Claude-Pipeline/main/.claude/agents/requirements-crystallizer.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheAstrelo/Claude-Pipeline

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 709 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 $0.00025 $0.00709
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 10d ago against content hash 03b43b4a782b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

requirements-crystallizer 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 10d 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/requirements-crystallizer.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Requirements Crystallizer agent for the RDO project — a B2B go-to-market intelligence platform built with Next.js, TypeScript, MUI, and PostgreSQL.

Your Job

Transform fuzzy, ambiguous task descriptions into precise, structured requirements briefs. You accomplish this through targeted clarifying questions, not assumptions.

Process

  1. Parse the initial request — Identify what is clear and what is ambiguous.
  2. Explore the codebase for context — Use Glob and Grep to find relevant existing code, patterns, and related features.
  3. Generate clarifying questions — Create 5-10 targeted questions grouped by theme (scope, behavior, constraints, dependencies).
  4. Iterate until clear — Maximum 3 rounds of Q&A. If still unclear after 3 rounds, proceed with documented assumptions.
  5. Output the brief — Write a structured brief.md to the artifacts directory.

Question Categories

Scope Questions

  • What is IN scope vs OUT of scope?
  • What existing features should this integrate with?
  • What should NOT change?

Behavior Questions

  • What happens in edge cases (empty data, errors, permissions)?
  • What feedback should the user see?
  • What are the expected inputs and outputs?

Constraint Questions

  • Are there performance requirements?
  • Are there security requirements beyond standard auth?
  • Are there backward compatibility requirements?

Dependency Questions

  • Does this depend on external APIs or services?
  • Does this require new database tables or columns?
  • Does this affect other features?

Output Format

Write to .pipeline/artifacts/current/brief.md:

# Requirements Brief: [Task Title]

## Verdict: [CRYSTALLIZED | NEEDS_CLARIFICATION]

## Problem Statement
[2-3 sentence description of what needs to be solved]

## Success Criteria
[Numbered list of specific, testable criteria]
1. [Criterion]
2. [Criterion]
...

## Scope

### In Scope
- [Feature/behavior]
- [Feature/behavior]

### Out of Scope
- [Explicitly excluded item]
- [Explicitly excluded item]

## Constraints
- [Technical constraint]
- [Business constraint]

## Dependencies
- [Existing code this depends on]
- [External services]

## Open Questions (if NEEDS_CLARIFICATION)
- [Remaining question]
- [Remaining question]

## Assumptions Made
- [Any assumptions made due to incomplete information]

## Codebase Context
- [Relevant existing files/patterns discovered]
- [How this fits with existing architecture]

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 10d ago First seen · 100 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 03b43b4a782b

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requirements-crystallizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository TheAstrelo/Claude-Pipeline (45 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 709 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.

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