scope-work

The first planning step for a new initiative: defining its user need, boundaries, constraints, and excluded work in a product scope document. A scope document states what the project includes and what it does not include.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before breaking work into tasks or planning a release, especially when creating or refining a product scope in a repository.
Why use it?
It prevents requirements from expanding during implementation and gives the team a shared meaning of done. It also connects the work to existing product vision and planning context.

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/danielvm-git/bigpowers/scope-work
Any agent
npx skills add danielvm-git/bigpowers --skill scope-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 936 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 $0.00071 $0.00936
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00468
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00094

Measured 2d ago against content hash 43f439353b98, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scope-work 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.

.cline/skills/scope-work/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

story: e03s01

story: e24s02

Scope Work

Spine position: Step 1 — scope-work → slice-tasks → plan-work.

Turn the current conversation into a bounded PRD at specs/product/SCOPE_LATEST.yaml. Without a scope boundary, implementation drifts — stories expand, estimates blow up, and "done" becomes undefined.

Pre-flight

  • Do you have a clear user need or problem statement? If not, run elaborate-spec first.
  • Does specs/product/VISION_LATEST.yaml exist? If yes, read it for north-star alignment.
  • Is there an existing SCOPE_LATEST.yaml? If yes, you're refining, not creating from scratch.

Process

  1. Read planning-context.yaml — If specs/planning-context.yaml exists, read it before doing anything else:

    test -f specs/planning-context.yaml && echo "Context found" || echo "No context — starting fresh"
    

    Pre-populate feature_name, constraints, and out_of_scope from the file. Skip re-asking questions already answered by elaborate-spec. If the file is absent, proceed normally.

  2. Gather context — Read existing specs/ artifacts (release-plan.yaml, plans/TECH_STACK_LATEST.md, requirements/VISION_LATEST.yaml if any). Understand what the project is building and why.

  3. Interview (if needed) — Clarify: What is the goal? Who are the users? What is definitely in scope? What is explicitly out of scope? What constraints exist (time, budget, tech)? How will success be measured?

  4. Write specs/product/SCOPE_LATEST.yaml with these fields:

    • core_value — one-sentence value proposition
    • summary — 2-3 paragraph scope overview
    • in_scope[] — list of what this initiative covers (each maps to an epic/story)
    • out_of_scope[] — explicit exclusions (prevents scope creep)
    • constraints — tech, time, resource boundaries
    • success_criteria — observable outcomes that prove the scope is delivered
    • references — links to related specs, ADRs, or documents
  5. Lightweight trade-off analysis — For each out_of_scope item, note why it's excluded (deferred, not valuable, too risky, depends on external factor). This protects against "what about X?" questions later.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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 · 64 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 43f439353b98

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scope-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (156 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 936 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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