discovery-intake

discovery-intake is a skill for Claude Code from contactandrewchl-wq/turtle-mcp. It costs 87 tokens per session (884 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A discovery guide for turning a vague software idea into a clear problem statement before writing a detailed specification. SDD means specification-driven development: building from an agreed written plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Interviewing about users, goals, constraints, exclusions, and risks; checking requirements for ambiguity; and producing testable success criteria.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear wording and unresolved assumptions before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the turtle plugin — 26 skills shipped together

Good fit Interviewing about users, goals, constraints, exclusions, and risks; checking requirements for ambiguity; and producing testable success criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/contactandrewchl-wq/turtle-mcp/discovery-intake
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 contactandrewchl-wq/turtle-mcp --skill discovery-intake
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/contactandrewchl-wq/turtle-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install turtle, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 884 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 $0.00087 $0.00884
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00442
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00088

Measured 11d ago against content hash fa323e5b4686, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discovery-intake 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 11d 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/discovery-intake/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Discovery — afila la idea antes del SDD

Cuándo usar esta skill

Cuando la persona llega con una idea o pedido sin especificar ("quiero construir X", "necesito un sistema que…") y todavía no hay requisitos claros. Es el paso 0, antes de propose/spec del flujo SDD. Si el pedido ya trae requisitos verificables, omite este paso.

Objetivo

Convertir una idea vaga en un enunciado de problema claro + criterios de éxito verificables + incógnitas abiertas, para que el SDD arranque sobre base sólida. IEEE 29148 exige requisitos no ambiguos y verificables: esta skill produce esa base.

Cómo conducir la entrevista

Pregunta de a dos o tres, no todo junto. Refleja de vuelta lo que entendiste. Cinco ejes:

  1. Problema y usuario — ¿qué problema se resuelve y para quién? (el dolor, no la solución)
  2. Éxito — ¿cómo sabremos que quedó bien? (criterios observables o medibles)
  3. Restricciones — límites reales (tiempo, stack, datos, integraciones, "esto no va")
  4. Fuera de alcance — qué queda explícitamente afuera (evita el crecimiento del alcance)
  5. Incógnitas y riesgo — qué es lo más incierto o peligroso

Caza de palabras ambiguas (obligatoria)

Antes de cerrar, revisa el borrador con el detector de Turtle: llama al tool MCP spec_lint (o corre turtle spec-lint) sobre el texto. Por cada término que devuelva —rápido, escalable, fácil, manejar, algunos, "según sea necesario", etc.— exige un número o un criterio observable. No cierres el Discovery con "palabras comadreja" sin concretar.

Ejemplo: "debe ser rápido" → ¿qué latencia objetivo? (p. ej. p95 < 200 ms en el checkout). "manejar los pagos" → ¿qué operaciones exactas? (crear intento, confirmar, reembolsar).

La compuerta

No avances al SDD hasta que se cumplan las tres:

  • El problema y el usuario están claros.
  • Hay al menos un criterio de éxito verificable.
  • spec_lint no marca términos ambiguos sin concretar (o los que quedan están listados como incógnitas abiertas explícitas).

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 11d ago First seen · 58 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A fa323e5b4686

Subscribe to this mod's changes

discovery-intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository contactandrewchl-wq/turtle-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 884 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 2026-08-31.

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