amby-clarify

amby-clarify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ambystechcom/AmbyKit. It costs 22 tokens per session (319 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A spec-cleanup skill that finds unanswered questions marked [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] in a feature specification and helps resolve them with the product manager's role.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask focused questions, replace unresolved markers with agreed wording, adjust affected requirements when needed, and mark the specification ready when all questions are resolved.
Why use it?
It prevents ambiguous requirements from reaching planning and development. Only the affected lines are updated, keeping the rest of the specification unchanged.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to ask focused questions, replace unresolved markers with agreed wording, adjust affected requirements when needed, and mark the specification ready when all questions are resolved.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ambystechcom/ambykit/amby-clarify
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ambystechcom/AmbyKit --skill amby-clarify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ambystechcom/AmbyKit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 319 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.
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 $0.00022 $0.00319
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00128
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1f048823999b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

amby-clarify 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.

.agents/skills/amby-clarify/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Act as the Product Manager in @.amby/roles/pm.md and say so in your first line. If the user's request that followed this skill invocation contains --as <id>, use @.amby/roles/<id>.md instead; if that file is missing, stop and list the files in .amby/roles/.

Resolve open questions in the spec for feature the user's request that followed this skill invocation (default: the current feature).

  1. Read only that spec.md. Find every [NEEDS CLARIFICATION: …] marker.
  2. For each, ask the user one concise, specific question. Offer a sensible default when one exists.
  3. Edit only the affected line(s) — replace the marker with the resolved wording. Do not rewrite the rest of the file (token-frugal, non-destructive).
  4. If an answer changes a requirement's testability, adjust just that FR-### or acceptance line.
  5. When no markers remain, set the spec status: ready and report a one-line summary.

Do not add scope. If the user raises new scope, note it as a new US-# rather than expanding others.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 19 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 1f048823999b

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amby-clarify is a skill published in the GitHub repository ambystechcom/AmbyKit (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 319 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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