dr-capture-request

A change-request recorder that copies an operator’s words exactly into REQUEST.md, then separates them into numbered requirements, constraints, and open questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps capture the first phase of a code or documentation change, including what must happen, what must not change, and what remains unclear.
Why use it?
It prevents the original request from being silently paraphrased or changed before it is interpreted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/ahepi/deepreason/dr-capture-request
Any agent
npx skills add AHepi/DeepReason --skill dr-capture-request
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 538 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 $0.00037 $0.00538
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00054

Measured 3d ago against content hash d500ad66125d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dr-capture-request 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/dr-capture-request/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Capture the request

Input: the operator's message(s). Output: REQUEST.md. You quote; you do not paraphrase, improve, or fill gaps. Interpretation happens in dr-spec-change, where it is visible and reviewable — not here, where it would silently replace the operator's words.

Procedure

  1. Copy the operator's suggestion VERBATIM into a quoted block. If the suggestion spans several messages (including earlier in the conversation), quote each with its position. Do not trim "context" — trimmed context is how inputs get forgotten.
  2. Split into atomic requirements R1..Rn. Atomic = one testable obligation each. Split conjunctions ("do X and then Y" → R1: X, R2: Y). Keep the operator's own words in each requirement; add nothing.
  3. Capture constraints stated anywhere in the conversation that bind this change (deadlines, "don't touch X", style preferences, budget remarks like "prioritise this"). These become C1..Cn with verbatim quotes.
  4. Mark each requirement's kind: behavior (code must act differently), artifact (a file/document/skill must exist), process (how the work must be done, e.g. "commit as you go").
  5. List open questions Q1..Qn — places where the words genuinely underdetermine the work. Do NOT answer them here.

REQUEST.md template

# Request: <operator's own headline words>
Captured: <date> from <operator message position(s)>

## Verbatim
> <exact quote(s)>

## Requirements
R1 (<kind>): "<operator's words for this obligation>"
R2 (<kind>): ...

## Standing constraints
C1: "<verbatim>" — <where stated>

## Open questions (for dr-spec-change)
Q1: <what the words leave undetermined>

## Amendments
(append-only; later operator messages land here as R<n+1>... or
"R2a supersedes R2", each with its verbatim quote)

Exit criteria

  • REQUEST.md committed and pushed.
  • Zero interpretation performed: every R and C contains a quote.
  • Return to the orchestrator.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 3d ago First seen · 60 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d500ad66125d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dr-capture-request is a skill published in the GitHub repository AHepi/DeepReason (140 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 538 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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