clarify

clarify is a command for coding agents from MariHQ/mari-cc. It costs 15 tokens per session (179 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An editing command that rewrites confusing text using clearer words, fewer acronyms, more direct sentences, and a standard format for error messages. It first checks the project's writing guidance and the target text's current style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a file, changelog, or recently edited text, especially when it contains jargon, unexplained abbreviations, passive voice, or unclear errors.
Why use it?
It helps make technical writing easier to understand without changing the author's meaning. It also checks the result for new clarity problems.

Command

Part of the mari plugin — 1 skill, 9 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

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/marihq/mari-cc/clarify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MariHQ/mari-cc

Or install mari, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 9 commands, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for clarify

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/marihq/mari-cc/clarify.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/marihq/mari-cc/clarify)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/marihq/mari-cc/clarify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/marihq/mari-cc/clarify.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 179 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 $0.00015 $0.00179
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00089
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00018

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1725170ea493, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • polish — 89% identical, 6 lines differ
  • tighten — 88% identical, 6 lines differ
commands/clarify.md · 10 lines

What it actually says

Run the clarify editorial verb from the mari skill on $ARGUMENTS (a path, a natural-language reference like "the changelog", or — if omitted — the file(s) just edited this session; ask if none).

Setup first: load PRODUCT.md / STYLE.md / FACTS.md if present, read a representative file for voice, resolve the register, and run mari detect <target> for ground truth. Then apply the verb's reference flow: references/reference-clarify.md in the mari skill. Preserve the author's meaning and voice — rewrite, not delete. Finish by re-running mari detect and fix any findings the edit introduced.

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 · 10 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1725170ea493

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clarify is a command published in the GitHub repository MariHQ/mari-cc (32 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 179 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.