discover

A project-planning step that defines the problem, intended user, desired result, limits, and exclusions before technical decisions are made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of an unconfigured project to create or review a short project charter.
Why use it?
It helps prevent building toward an unclear problem or choosing technical details before the project's purpose is understood.

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/bnet47/codexicon/discover
Any agent
npx skills add bnet47/codexicon --skill discover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bnet47/codexicon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 496 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 $0.00030 $0.00496
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00248
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00050

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0239f27b1b8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discover 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 2d 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/discover/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Discover

Announce: "I'm using discover to define the project before we choose how to build it."

1. Check the gate

Inspect agent_docs/briefs/ and the identity section in AGENTS.md.

  • If an approved project charter already exists, summarize it and ask whether the user wants to revise it. Do not create a duplicate.
  • If this is an established repository with clear project identity, stop and route the request to the relevant feature workflow.

2. Build understanding

Ask one question at a time and stop as soon as the answer is clear. Keep the exchange focused on unresolved decisions.

Cover only unresolved parts of:

  1. What is painful, missing, or expensive today?
  2. Who experiences it, and what do they do now?
  3. What concrete change should the project create for that person?
  4. Why is this worth solving now?
  5. What constraints and existing systems are real?
  6. What is explicitly not part of the project?

Do not choose a language, framework, database, or deployment target in this workflow.

3. Reflect before writing

Return a two- or three-sentence synthesis of the problem, person, and intended outcome. Resolve material corrections before saving.

4. Write the charter

Save agent_docs/briefs/charter-[project-slug].md:

# Project Charter: [Project name]

**Date:** [YYYY-MM-DD]
**Status:** Approved

## Problem
[Pain, affected person, and current cost.]

## Intended user
[A specific person or role and their context.]

## Outcome
[The observable change when the project succeeds.]

## Why now
[Why the work matters now.]

## Constraints
- [Real limit or dependency.]

## Non-goals
- [Explicit boundary.]

## Success signals
- [Observable evidence without prescribing a feature.]

## Open questions
- [Unresolved item, or "None".]

Self-check that the charter describes a problem and outcome rather than a predetermined solution, and that non-goals are meaningful.

5. Hand off

Offer $init to configure the technical environment. Do not commit, push, or open a PR unless the user separately asks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 2d ago First seen · 76 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 0239f27b1b8d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

discover is a skill published in the GitHub repository bnet47/codexicon (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 496 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 2026-08-31.

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