meta-prompt

meta-prompt is a skill for Claude Code from bengous/claude-code-plugins. It costs 69 tokens per session (772 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that turns a user's rough request or conversation into a prompt for another coding agent. It preserves what the user decided while leaving uncertain choices open.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write prompts, briefings, and handoffs for a fresh agent session, including decisions, open questions, and relevant conversation details.
Why use it?
It avoids silently adding requirements, implementation choices, or acceptance criteria that the user did not provide. This makes a handoff reflect the original intent and uncertainty.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the claude-meta-tools plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It helps write prompts, briefings, and handoffs for a fresh agent session, including decisions, open questions, and relevant conversation details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bengous/claude-code-plugins/meta-prompt
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 bengous/claude-code-plugins --skill meta-prompt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bengous/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-meta-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 772 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 $0.00069 $0.00772
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00309
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00077

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e12b68a1499c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meta-prompt 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.

claude-meta-tools/skills/meta-prompt/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.

Meta Prompt

Write the prompt another agent will receive. The prompt carries the user's intention, at the user's level of certainty. It is not a plan.

Input

$ARGUMENTS

No arguments: the request is the task discussed in this conversation.

Preserve intention and certainty

The executor treats everything in the prompt as the user's own words. So nothing enters the prompt that the user did not decide.

  • A directive the user stated ("use this lib", "do it like X", "not in that file") is kept as a directive, in the user's terms.
  • Everything the user left open stays open. Never pick an approach, a library, a file layout, a sequence of steps, or a scope the user did not pick. Never add requirements, acceptance criteria, or examples the user did not give.
  • When the request reads as exploration (confused ideas, "I'm not sure", "let's think about"), say so in the prompt: the executor is to think it through with the user before implementing.
  • Questions go into the prompt, under Open, for the executor to ask. Do not ask them here.

Mine the conversation

When the request follows a discussion, the conversation holds facts the executor needs: decisions made and why, constraints and anti-patterns the user expressed, prior art they pointed at. Carry those in, filtered to what bears on the task. The executor reads cold: no shorthand from this conversation ("as discussed", "the earlier approach"). Every reference resolves for a reader with zero context.

Verify references

Check that each file, symbol, or convention the request names exists. Pick up the conventions in CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and .claude/rules/ that bear on the task, unless the harness already put them in context.

Report what you found as facts: "exists at path", "does not exist", "already done in path", "unverified". When the repo contradicts the request, state the contradiction under Context and keep the request as the user made it. Retargeting is the executor's conversation with the user, not yours.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 75 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A e12b68a1499c

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meta-prompt is a skill published in the GitHub repository bengous/claude-code-plugins (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 772 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-14.