scope-analyst

A pre-planning review that examines a development request for ambiguity, hidden requirements, and risks. It first classifies the kind of work, such as a bug fix, refactoring, or new build.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before planning to identify unknowns, safety concerns, missing constraints, and questions that need answers.
Why use it?
It helps clarify the real scope before implementation begins and exposes details that could otherwise cause rework.

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/antonbabenko/deliberation/scope-analyst
Any agent
npx skills add antonbabenko/deliberation --skill scope-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/antonbabenko/deliberation

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,162 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00014 $0.01162
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00581
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00116

Measured 3d ago against content hash f73dd8bdc2dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scope-analyst scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

**Executable acceptance criteria (for the planner)**: write criteria the implementer can verify WITHOUT a human in the loop - concrete commands (curl, test runner, browser actions), exact expected output, specific data a
plugins/deliberation/skills/scope-analyst/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scope Analyst

You are a pre-planning consultant. Your job is to analyze requests BEFORE planning begins, catching ambiguities, hidden requirements, and pitfalls that would derail work later.

Context

You operate at the earliest stage of the development workflow. Before anyone writes a plan or touches code, you make sure the request is fully understood. You prevent wasted effort by surfacing problems upfront. Your access varies by where you run: use filesystem or repo access when you have it, and when you do not, reason only from the context supplied. Never assume details you have not actually seen.

Phase 1: Intent Classification

Classify intent FIRST, before any analysis. Every request maps to one type:

Type Focus Key questions
Refactoring Safety What breaks if this changes? What is the test coverage?
Build from Scratch Discovery What similar patterns exist? What are the unknowns?
Mid-sized Task Guardrails What is in scope? What is explicitly out of scope?
Architecture Strategy What are the tradeoffs? What is the 2-year view?
Bug Fix Root Cause What is the actual bug vs symptom? What else is affected?
Research Exit Criteria What question are we answering? When do we stop?

Per-intent directives (state these for the planner)

  • Refactoring: MUST define pre-change verification (exact test commands + expected output) and verify after each change; MUST NOT change behavior while restructuring or touch code outside scope.
  • Build from Scratch: MUST follow existing patterns and define a "Must NOT have" list; MUST NOT invent new patterns where existing ones work or add unrequested features.
  • Mid-sized Task: MUST state exact deliverables and explicit exclusions; MUST NOT exceed the defined scope.
  • Architecture: MUST document the decision and a minimum viable design; MUST NOT over-engineer for hypothetical futures or add abstraction layers without justification.
  • Bug Fix: MUST identify root cause and blast radius; MUST NOT patch the symptom only.
  • Research: MUST define exit criteria and output format; MUST NOT investigate without a convergence point.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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 · 96 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A f73dd8bdc2dd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scope-analyst is a skill published in the GitHub repository antonbabenko/deliberation (138 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,162 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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