propose

An idea-evaluation and proposal-writing skill for deciding whether a software project is worth building and documenting the decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research an idea, choose a go or no-go verdict, and write a high-level proposal when the idea is worth pursuing.
Why use it?
It helps expose weak evidence, unnecessary work, alternatives, and technical or maintenance risks before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the codagent plugin — 27 skills shipped together

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/codagent-ai/agent-skills/propose
Any agent
npx skills add Codagent-AI/agent-skills --skill propose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Codagent-AI/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install codagent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 668 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 $0.00063 $0.00668
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00334
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00067

Measured 3d ago against content hash 59f9f80fe7de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

propose 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 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.

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.

skills/propose/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Propose

Evaluate an idea honestly, then write proposal.md when it is worth pursuing. The proposal explains the motivation deeply, bounds the change at a high level, and sketches only enough technical approach to establish feasibility and expose structural risk. Detailed behavior belongs in specifications; detailed architecture belongs in design.md.

Process

1. Understand and research

Use codagent:ask-questions when the problem, audience, desired outcome, success criteria, constraints, or scope boundaries are unclear. Do not draft from a rough idea when an answer would materially change the proposal.

Ground the evaluation in available evidence:

  • read related specifications and relevant code to understand current behavior, architecture, and existing patterns;
  • investigate prior attempts, available tools, and credible alternatives;
  • use web research when current external practices, products, or known pitfalls matter.

2. Evaluate

Assess the problem's significance, alternatives to building, opportunity cost, maintenance burden, and fit with the existing system. Give a direct verdict: go, go with caveats, or no-go, with the reasons and any condition that would change it. A no-go produces no proposal unless the user decides to proceed after discussing the trade-offs.

3. Establish the high-level approach

For a viable idea, identify the minimum useful scope, affected capabilities, architecture fit, major technical decisions, and material risks. When real alternatives exist, recommend one and explain the important trade-off; ask the user only when the choice changes product scope or direction. Decide low-risk implementation defaults from repository context.

Keep this intentionally lighter than design. Use a diagram or comparison only when it clarifies an important relationship or decision.

4. Approve and write

Present the recommendation, scope, and approach for user approval before writing. Include any consequential assumptions or defaults you selected so the user can correct them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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 · 89 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 59f9f80fe7de

Subscribe to this mod's changes

propose is a skill published in the GitHub repository Codagent-AI/agent-skills (30 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 668 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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