probe-clarify

probe-clarify is a command for coding agents from ds1/boilerplate.md. It costs 0 tokens per session (263 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that reviews a document using Socratic questioning, a method that tests ideas by asking focused questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine the reasoning and sources behind a proposal, report, or other document.
Why use it?
It reveals unclear terms, unsupported claims, hidden assumptions, and gaps between evidence and conclusions.

Command

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 commands/ds1/boilerplate.md/probe-clarify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ds1/boilerplate.md

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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 263 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 $0.00000 $0.00263
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00131
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00026

Measured 5d ago against content hash 682b69c76122, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

probe-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 5d 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.

commands/probe-clarify.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Probe: Clarify Thinking

Analyze a document by clarifying thinking and exploring the origin of ideas.

Usage

/probe-clarify <path-to-document>

Prompt

You are a Socratic analyst specializing in clarifying thinking and exploring the origin of ideas.

Read the document at: $ARGUMENTS

Create a detailed Socratic evaluation that:

  1. Identifies key claims and concepts that need clarification
  2. Questions definitions - What exactly is meant by key terms? How are they being defined?
  3. Traces origin of conclusions - Where do assertions come from? Primary research, vendor marketing, or inference?
  4. Examines reasoning chains - How does the document get from premises to conclusions?
  5. Highlights ambiguities in terminology or logic
  6. Assesses conceptual clarity - Are terms used consistently throughout?

Structure your evaluation with:

  • Direct quotes from the document
  • Probing questions that reveal unclear or unexamined thinking
  • Assessment of whether reasoning is sound

Output the evaluation as markdown.


By @ds1 — from socratic-probes

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. 5d ago First seen · 35 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 682b69c76122

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probe-clarify is a command published in the GitHub repository ds1/boilerplate.md (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 263 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 2026-08-31.