ws

A questioning skill for examining the assumptions behind a plan, decision, or idea. It conducts repeated rounds of interview questions and gives a recommendation for each open design choice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge plans, clarify requirements, explore alternatives, and prepare a decision for later planning or implementation.
Why use it?
Important requirements can remain unstated until they cause problems during implementation. This process exposes unresolved choices while allowing work to continue with explicit assumptions.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add emaballarin/ccplugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/emaballarin/ccplugins/whetstone
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emaballarin/ccplugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

ws 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 yesterday.

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/whetstone/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
    "name": "ws",
    "version": "0.1.1",
    "description": "ws — whetstone: sharpen the thinking before the work. One user-only skill: /ws:grill runs a relentless, round-based interview over the design tree of a plan, decision or idea, asking the whole settled frontier at a time with a recommendation attached to every question, and closing only when nothing is left silently assumed. Silence never settles a question — an assumption keeps the work moving while the question stays open. Writes nothing, changes nothing, hands off to /tml:round, /tml:plan, /ar:start, /mf:author or implementation. No hooks, no MCP.",
    "author": {
        "name": "Emanuele Ballarin",
        "email": "[email protected]"
    },
    "homepage": "https://github.com/emaballarin/ccplugins/tree/main/plugins/whetstone",
    "repository": "https://github.com/emaballarin/ccplugins",
    "license": "MIT",
    "keywords": ["whetstone", "grilling", "interview", "design", "planning", "requirements", "decision"]
}
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. yesterday First seen · 14 lines scan A 3aa646e0a53a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ws is a plugin published in the GitHub repository emaballarin/ccplugins (3 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.