clarify-question-loop

clarify-question-loop is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS. It costs 31 tokens per session (802 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A question flow for resolving the small number of ambiguities that could change an agent package, its permissions, its runtime setup, or whether it is private or public. It asks targeted questions instead of guessing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before generating, packaging, publishing, or adapting an agent when important details are unclear, especially around roles, tools, permissions, synthesis, and release scope.
Why use it?
It prevents unsafe or unsuitable agent designs caused by missing requirements. It also helps decide whether one agent or several specialists should share the work and how their outputs depend on one another.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Agentlas OS is a local-first system for creating, storing, borrowing, and running specialist AI agents and temporary agent teams through supported hosts and models. It serves people who want reusable agents that remain available across computers and model workspaces, and the catalogue contains its skills, commands, hooks, agents, instructions, plugin, and rule.

agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS · 1,099 stars · on GitHub

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/agentlas-ai/agentlas-os/clarify-question-loop
Any agent
npx skills add agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS --skill clarify-question-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 802 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 $0.00031 $0.00802
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00401
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00080

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6a4dc07b1445, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clarify-question-loop 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.

.agents/skills/clarify-question-loop/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clarify Question Loop

Ask only questions that change the generated package, runtime adapter, safety boundary, or public/private release decision.

For /hep-build creation or behavior-changing packaging, this is not a substitute for the Builder Interview and Research Gate in contracts/builder-interview-research-gate.md. Run that gate first: ask an 8-12 question first batch, research similar agent repositories or comparables and academic/professional theory, then use this clarify loop only for the remaining narrow ambiguities.

Procedure

  1. Classify the current best mode.
  2. If single-agent vs team selection would change the package shape and the independent ownership boundaries are unclear, ask before generation. The first batch must include this plain-language question: "이 일을 한 명의 전문가가 처음부터 끝까지 맡으면 되나요, 아니면 조사/분석/검토처럼 여러 전문가가 나눠 맡고 마지막에 합쳐야 하나요?"
  3. Follow up on role count, role-specific tools/permissions, whether outputs must be synthesized, and whether artifacts are sequential dependencies or independent parallel packets.
  4. Identify missing facts that would change files or safety.
  5. Ask one to five short questions, preferably three. If more than five functional-quality questions remain, return to the Builder Interview and Research Gate instead of pretending the package is ready.
  6. Do not ask for secrets. Ask for secret names or setup boundaries instead.
  7. After answers arrive, re-run mode classification if needed.
  8. Generate or repair the package using the answers and list assumptions.

Budgets and stop rule (briefing interview engine)

This loop shares the briefing interview engine's contract (agentlas_cloud/interview/): a question is only worth asking if the answer would change execution, not just its phrasing. Respect the surface budget (chat 3-5 in one batch, stormbreaker <= 8 across two batches, build 8-12 plus follow-ups). 'decide later' is always a valid answer — record it as deferred, never re-ask. When answers you auto-confirmed from code/memory reach three in a row, the next question must go to the human.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 5d ago First seen · 75 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 6a4dc07b1445

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clarify-question-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS (1,099 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 802 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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