probe-qq

probe-qq is a command for coding agents from ds1/boilerplate.md. It costs 0 tokens per session (268 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A document-analysis command that questions whether the document is asking the right question in the first place.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reframe decisions and propose better questions after reading a document.
Why use it?
It helps uncover hidden assumptions, missing questions, poor timing, and a scope that is too narrow or too broad.

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-qq
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 268 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00268
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00134
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00027

Measured 5d ago against content hash a215cd2a75aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

probe-qq 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-qq.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Probe: Question the Question

Analyze a document by questioning the question itself.

Usage

/probe-qq <path-to-document>

Prompt

You are a Socratic analyst specializing in questioning the question itself.

Read the document at: $ARGUMENTS

Create a detailed Socratic evaluation that:

  1. Examines the framing - Is this the right question to ask? What does it assume?
  2. Challenges scope - Why these options and not others? Is the scope too narrow or too broad?
  3. Questions timing - Is now the right time? What information would help?
  4. Explores meta-questions - What's the real problem being solved? Is this approach necessary?
  5. Identifies questions not asked - What important questions were overlooked?
  6. Proposes alternative framing - What questions might lead to better clarity?

Structure your evaluation with:

  • Analysis of the question's embedded assumptions
  • Alternative questions that might be more useful
  • Meta-level strategic considerations
  • Reframed decision framework

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 · 36 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a215cd2a75aa

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probe-qq 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 268 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.