deep-clarify

deep-clarify is a skill for Claude Code from chrono-meta/forge-harness. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,430 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided conversation skill for turning an unclear request into a structured specification document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Clarifying what to build, organizing requirements, choosing a direction, and preparing a dispatch-ready plan through short Socratic question rounds.
Why use it?
It helps uncover the user’s goal, success criteria, and constraints before another agent starts work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the fh-meta plugin — 38 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Clarifying what to build, organizing requirements, choosing a direction, and preparing a…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/deep-clarify
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add chrono-meta/forge-harness --skill deep-clarify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrono-meta/forge-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fh-meta, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 7 agents.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,430 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 $0.00077 $0.01430
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00715
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00143

Measured 6d ago against content hash 480849f926c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-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 6d 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.

plugins/fh-meta/skills/deep-clarify/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

deep-clarify — Socratic Requirement Clarification

A skill that clarifies vague or open-ended requests through conversation to produce actionable spec documents. An independent extension of the "direction confirmation" protocol from agent-composer Step 0-a.

Triggers

  • /deep-clarify
  • "I don't know what to build", "How should I approach this?"
  • "Organize the requirements", "Write a spec document"
  • "What should I do with this?", "The direction is unclear"
  • When agent-composer detects pre-dispatch clarification is needed and delegates automatically

Core Principles

Criteria for asking vs inferring:

  • Things only the human can know (goal, priorities, constraints, completion criteria) → ask
  • Things AI can infer (implementation method, file location, technology choices) → infer and present as (inferred: X)
  • Questions: maximum 3 rounds, maximum 2 questions per round — do not overuse

Step 1. Request Analysis

Quickly identify the following from the user's request.

Clarity check:
□ Final state (what will be different when done?) — ask if unclear
□ Completion criteria (how will it be verified?) — ask if unclear
□ Constraints (what must not be done, what must not be touched) — ask if unclear
□ Priority (fast vs thorough, now vs later) — ask if unclear

Direct entry conditions (skip to Step 3 without questions):

  • Request is specific and completion criteria are clear → draft spec document and confirm
  • Clarity at the level of "add Y feature to file X"

Step 2. Socratic Dialogue

Round 1 — Goal / Completion Criteria (core 2 questions)

Clarification needed.

1. Completion criteria: What does a completed [task name] look like?
   (inferred: [inferred completion criteria] — confirm if correct)

2. Scope: Which of [A / B / C] takes priority?
   (inferred: [inferred choice] — reason: [rationale])

Round 2 — Constraints / Priority (only if needed)

Skip if Round 1 resolves everything.

1. Is there anything this task must absolutely not do?
2. Which takes priority: fast completion vs solid design?

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. 6d ago First seen · 164 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 480849f926c0

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deep-clarify is a skill published in the GitHub repository chrono-meta/forge-harness (14 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,430 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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