gather-context-and-clarify

gather-context-and-clarify is a command for Claude Code from ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff. It costs 12 tokens per session (143 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that gathers codebase or research context with subagents and then asks questions to clarify the work. Subagents are smaller agents that investigate a task on your behalf.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a coding task is unclear and you need context gathered plus follow-up questions before deciding what to build.
Why use it?
It helps uncover relevant files, patterns, constraints, and missing requirements before planning or implementation begins.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md). Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it when a coding task is unclear and you need context gathered plus follow-up questions before deciding what to build.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff/gather-context-and-clarify
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 143 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 $0.00012 $0.00143
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00072
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00014

Measured 10d ago against content hash d1eab578f7e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gather-context-and-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 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.

commands/gather-context-and-clarify.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Based on our discussion and my intent, launch focused context-gathering subagents before planning or implementing.

Use scout to inspect the relevant local files, existing patterns, constraints, tests, and likely integration points. Use researcher when external docs, recent sources, ecosystem context, or primary evidence would improve the answer.

Give each subagent a specific meta prompt. Ask them to return concise findings plus the remaining clarification questions that matter for implementation confidence.

After they return, synthesize what we know and use the interview tool to ask me the unresolved questions needed to reach a shared understanding.

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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 · 14 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A d1eab578f7e4

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gather-context-and-clarify is a command published in the GitHub repository ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 143 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.