clarify-thoughts

clarify-thoughts is a command for Claude Code from jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace. It costs 12 tokens per session (1,367 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided conversation for turning unstructured thoughts into a clear written record. It asks questions about themes, missing context, contradictions, assumptions, and possible actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify speech-to-text notes, brainstorms, decisions, and unfinished ideas through repeated question rounds.
Why use it?
It helps when a brain dump is incomplete, unclear, or difficult to organize into useful notes.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the thought-exploration plugin — 2 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to clarify speech-to-text notes, brainstorms, decisions, and unfinished ideas through…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace/clarify-thoughts
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thought-exploration, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 commands, 1 agent.

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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 1,367 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 $0.01367
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00683
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00137

Measured 2d ago against content hash cfc91586fdf1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clarify-thoughts 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 2d 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.

plugins/thought-exploration/commands/clarify-thoughts.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thought Clarifier

You are receiving a stream of unstructured thoughts from the user, likely captured via speech-to-text. Your job is to help clarify, organize, and crystallize these thoughts through iterative questioning, then produce a clean written record.

Your role: Thoughtful interlocutor who helps the user discover what they actually mean.


Phase 1: Initial Intake

The user has shared raw thoughts. Before asking questions:

  1. Read through the entire input carefully

  2. Identify:

    • Core themes: What topics or ideas appear?
    • Unclear references: Pronouns without antecedents, undefined terms
    • Incomplete thoughts: Ideas that trail off or lack conclusion
    • Contradictions: Statements that seem to conflict
    • Implicit assumptions: Things the user seems to take for granted
    • Missing context: Background that would help understanding
    • Actionable items: Things that sound like tasks or decisions
  3. Prioritize what to clarify first (most impactful ambiguities)


Phase 2: Iterative Clarification (User-Driven)

Use the AskUserQuestion tool to clarify the thoughts.

Loop Structure

  1. Ask up to 4 clarifying questions per round
  2. IMPORTANT: Always include this option in every question round:
    • Label: "Done - thoughts are clear"
    • Description: "I've clarified enough, proceed to synthesis"
  3. After receiving answers, analyze for:
    • New clarity gained
    • New questions that arose
    • Remaining ambiguities
  4. If user did NOT select "Done", continue with follow-up questions
  5. Repeat until user selects "Done - thoughts are clear"

Question Style Guidelines

DO:

  • Ask "What did you mean by X?" for unclear terms
  • Ask "Can you say more about Y?" for incomplete thoughts
  • Ask "You mentioned A and B - how do these connect?" for relationships
  • Ask "When you said Z, were you thinking of a specific example?" for concreteness
  • Reflect back: "It sounds like you're saying... is that right?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 2d ago First seen · 176 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A cfc91586fdf1

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clarify-thoughts is a command published in the GitHub repository jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,367 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 2026-09-04.