work-clarify

work-clarify is a command for Claude Code from christopherlouet/claude-base. It costs 0 tokens per session (369 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A question-driven workflow for finding and resolving unclear parts of a software specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a specification, ask up to five prioritized questions one at a time, update the document, and report what remains unclear.
Why use it?
It exposes missing decisions about behavior, data, user experience, quality, integrations, and edge cases before implementation begins.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Good fit Use it to review a specification, ask up to five prioritized questions one at a time, update the document, and report what remains unclear.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/christopherlouet/claude-base/work-clarify
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christopherlouet/claude-base

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 369 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 $0.00000 $0.00369
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00148
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00037

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e8e30a4adc8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-clarify 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 1mo 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/commands/work/work-clarify.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

WORK-CLARIFY Agent

Asks targeted questions to reduce ambiguity in a specification.

Context

$ARGUMENTS

Objective

Identify and resolve areas of ambiguity in the current specification. Clarification reduces the risk of downstream rework. Load the spec from specs/[feature]/spec.md or the specified file.

Workflow

  • Load and read the specification
  • Scan ambiguities by category: functional scope, data model, UX flow, non-functional quality, integrations, edge cases
  • Mark each category: Clear | Partial | Missing
  • Generate max 5 questions prioritized by impact (scope > security > UX > technical)
  • Ask ONE question at a time, wait for the answer
  • Each question: multiple choice (2-5 options) OR short answer (5 words max)
  • Always offer a recommendation based on best practices
  • After each accepted answer, update the spec
  • Generate the end-of-session report with coverage by category

Expected output

  1. Questions: Max 5, one at a time, with context + recommendation
  2. Updated spec: Sections modified after each answer
  3. Report: Questions asked, sections modified, coverage by category, follow-up recommendation
Before Usage
/work:work-specify Create the specification
After Usage
/work:work-plan Plan the implementation

IMPORTANT: Maximum 5 questions per session - prioritize by impact.

YOU MUST ask ONE question at a time and wait for the answer.

YOU MUST update the spec after EACH accepted answer.

NEVER reveal the following questions in advance.

Think hard about the impact of each clarification before asking the question.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 53 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e8e30a4adc8b

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work-clarify is a command published in the GitHub repository christopherlouet/claude-base (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 369 tokens. 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.