concept-clarifier

concept-clarifier is a skill for Claude Code from AdamBien/airails. It costs 107 tokens per session (846 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for confirming uncertain business terms and open questions found during a software migration. It collects answers from a domain expert, either in a live interview or through a written questionnaire, then records the confirmed meanings and their sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resolve unclear terms, synonyms, abbreviations, and business-rule questions, including which business area a concept belongs to, and save the decisions in the migration glossary.
Why use it?
It prevents guesses about business language from being carried into later migration work. This matters because a wrong definition can affect many parts of the rebuilt system.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

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 skills/adambien/airails/concept-clarifier
Any agent
npx skills add AdamBien/airails --skill concept-clarifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AdamBien/airails

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 846 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 5.1 $0.00107 $0.00846
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00423
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00085

Measured 6d ago against content hash 78f47bf030d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

concept-clarifier 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 6d 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.

migrations/concept-clarifier/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Concept Clarifier

Turn the extractor's hypotheses into confirmed domain knowledge. Machines mined the candidates; only a human who knows the business can settle them. Never invent an answer — an open question folded back wrong poisons every downstream step.

Inputs

Build one work queue from:

  1. migration/CONCEPTS.md## Open Questions, by Q-id.
  2. Every migration/GLOSSARY.md entry still carrying a (hypothesis …) marker.
  3. migration/CARVING.md## Open Questions, when present — BC-assignment questions share the same Q-id space and resolve through the same flow; their answers land in GLOSSARY.md ## Decisions keyed by Q-id.

Group the queue by theme: synonym merges, homonym splits, abbreviation expansions, canonical-term and language choices, BC assignments. Do not mine the codebase — evidence shown to the expert comes verbatim from the CONCEPTS.md pointers; if evidence is missing, that is an extractor defect, not a reason to search.

Mode Selection

First ask who answers:

  • The person in this session → live interview.
  • A remote domain expert → async questionnaire. This is the common case in real migrations.

If migration/INTERVIEW.md exists and contains filled-in answers, skip the question phase and fold back (below).

Live Interview

Use AskUserQuestion, one theme per round, max 4 questions per call. Make options enumerable where possible — "Same concept / Different concepts / Depends" — with the evidence pointers in the option descriptions; free-form answers arrive via "Other". After each round, fold back immediately, then continue. Stop when the queue is empty or the user defers the remainder — deferred questions stay open.

Async Questionnaire

Generate migration/INTERVIEW.md from references/interview-template.md: one block per question with Q-id, question, evidence, checkbox options, free-text line, and an "answered by" line. Tell the user to send it to the expert and re-run /concept-clarifier when it comes back filled in.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 55 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 78f47bf030d9

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concept-clarifier is a skill published in the GitHub repository AdamBien/airails (48 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 846 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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