consult-scope

consult-scope is a skill for Claude Code from cogni-work/insight-wave. It costs 150 tokens per session (3,049 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided method for defining the scope of a consulting engagement. It turns a broad request into one specific question and a small work plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for framing the main question, examining five areas of scope, and defining three to six groups of work.
Why use it?
It prevents consulting work from starting with unclear goals, boundaries, or expected results.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the cogni-consult plugin — 9 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add cogni-work/insight-wave
Claude Code
/plugin install cogni-consult

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cogni-consult, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,049 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 $0.00150 $0.03049
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01524
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00610
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00305

Measured yesterday against content hash 3a149a094232, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

consult-scope 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 yesterday.

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.

cogni-consult/skills/consult-scope/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Engagement Scoping

Produce the keystone deliverable of a cogni-consult engagement: one SMART key question, five scoping dimensions, and 3-6 action fields declared as the work-breakdown structure every later skill works inside. The method itself — SMART table, dimension prompts, output template, quality signals — lives in $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/references/methods/scope-dimensions.md; this skill owns the conversation flow and the state writes.

Workflow

0. Resolve the Interaction Language

Before any user-facing output, resolve the interaction language — the workspace default, overridden by the user's message language — per $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/references/interaction-language.md, which owns the resolution ladder. Conduct the entire conversation in the resolved language. It is independent of the engagement's language field, which is the deliverable axis. This contract holds on the default path: it does not depend on an output style being active.

The description of a Bash tool call is rendered to the consultant, so it is user copy — write it in the interaction language, outcome-shaped, at most 6 words, with no script, file, or skill names, and never derived from the script's filename or header comment. Worked pair: Discover cogni-consult engagementsLaufende Engagements holen. Section (f) of the canonical ecosystem register owns these five constraints — edit them there first, then mirror into $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/references/user-facing-output.md and here.

The register that output follows has two tiers. The overlay $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/references/user-facing-output.md carries this plugin's own state lexicon, coinages and German step vocabulary, and opens with the command that reads the canonical ecosystem register behind it — which owns scope, the table contract, step announcements and brevity budgets, and the executive register. Read the overlay and follow that command; table cells and headers are user copy too, not an exemption.

1. Prerequisite Gate

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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. yesterday Changed · +5 lines 3a149a094232
  2. 6d ago First seen · 143 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 8bab4c3ddab4

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consult-scope is a skill published in the GitHub repository cogni-work/insight-wave (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 3,049 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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