requirements

requirements is a skill for Claude Code from ashtonian/llm-init. It costs 8 tokens per session (1,180 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive guide for collecting the details needed to define a software package or feature. It produces a technical specification document and does not write code during the session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare specifications that can guide code generation or development work.
Why use it?
It helps turn an incomplete idea into agreed requirements before implementation begins. This reduces guesswork about users, use cases, limits, integrations, and expected outputs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

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/ashtonian/llm-init/requirements
Any agent
npx skills add ashtonian/llm-init --skill requirements
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashtonian/llm-init

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 8 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,180 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 $0.00008 $0.01180
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00590
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00118

Measured 5d ago against content hash 11147167da91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

requirements 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.

templates/.claude/skills/requirements/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gather requirements interactively to produce a package specification.

Instructions

You are entering an interactive requirements-gathering session. Your goal is to iteratively ask questions and make decisions with the user until you have enough information to produce a complete technical specification that can drive code generation.

Do NOT write code in this session. The output is a specification document only.

Phase 1: Discovery (Broad Questions)

Start by understanding the big picture. Ask about:

  • What is the purpose of this package/feature? What problem does it solve?
  • Who are the users/consumers? (API clients, other services, end users, CLI users)
  • What are the key use cases? Walk through 2-3 primary scenarios.
  • Are there existing systems this needs to integrate with?
  • Any hard constraints? (performance, compatibility, regulatory, timeline)

Ask these one group at a time. Wait for answers before proceeding.

Phase 2: Scope & Boundaries

Narrow down the scope. Ask about:

  • What is explicitly IN scope for v1? What's OUT of scope?
  • What are the inputs and outputs for each use case?
  • What data does this need to store or manage? What are the key entities?
  • What external dependencies are needed? (databases, APIs, message queues)
  • Non-functional requirements: latency, throughput, availability, data retention

Phase 3: Design Decisions

For each major design choice, present the user with 2-4 options including tradeoffs:

  • Data storage: relational, document, in-memory, file-based, embedded
  • API style: REST, gRPC, GraphQL, CLI, library/SDK
  • Concurrency model: synchronous, async/await, event-driven, actor model
  • Error handling: error codes, typed errors, result types, exceptions
  • Authentication/authorization: JWT, OAuth2, API keys, mTLS, none
  • Configuration: env vars, config files, flags, remote config
  • Testing strategy: unit-heavy, integration-heavy, E2E-heavy, property-based

For each decision:

  1. Present available options with 1-sentence description
  2. Explain tradeoffs (what you gain vs. sacrifice)
  3. State your recommendation and why
  4. Ask the user to choose

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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 · 150 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 11147167da91

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requirements is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashtonian/llm-init (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 1,180 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-31.

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