A plugin that asks clarifying questions before carrying out a task. Its stated aim is to improve understanding of the request before work begins.

Clarifying goals, constraints, and requirements before an agent executes a task.

It reduces the risk of acting on incomplete or misunderstood requirements.

ask-first — Plugin for Claude Code by nathanonn/agent-skills

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/nathanonn/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill cost 106 tokens a session between them.

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.

Security

Grade A, and why

ask-first 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 1mo 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/ask-first/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 15 lines

What it actually says

{
  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/claude-code-plugin-manifest.json",
  "name": "ask-first",
  "displayName": "Ask First",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Ask clarifying questions before executing tasks. Reaches 95% confidence through structured Q&A, then executes.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Nathan Onn",
    "url": "https://github.com/nathanonn"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/nathanonn/agent-skills",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["clarification", "questions", "requirements", "workflow"]
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 106 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Skill ask-first A 106 tokens

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.

1mo ago First seen · 15 lines scan A 526f4119d5c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask-first is a plugin published in the GitHub repository nathanonn/agent-skills (21 stars, last pushed 1mo 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 2026-08-30.

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