survey-context

survey-context is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from danielvm-git/bigpowers. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,486 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-orientation check that reads existing specifications and architecture documents to show the current development phase and recommend the next skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a task or after a break to inspect project rules and specifications, map the lifecycle phase, and choose the next step.
Why use it?
It helps an agent understand where a task stands before acting, especially when returning to an existing project or when project state may be outdated.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,486 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00066 $0.01486
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00743
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00149

Measured today against content hash 06c4b1d6dd0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

survey-context 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 today.

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/survey-context/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

story: e82s02

Survey Context

Read the project's current state and give a phase map + next-skill recommendation. This is the "where am I?" skill — run it at the start of every task.

Use this vs map-codebase: survey-context consumes existing specs and docs (fast; does not re-derive). map-codebase builds the tech-stack doc from scratch by scanning the codebase. Run map-codebase when specs/tech-architecture/tech-stack.md doesn't exist yet; run survey-context when it does.

HARD GATE — Read specs/ files before suggesting next steps. If state.yaml is stale or contradicts the codebase, request clarification rather than assuming intent.

Orchestrate-project 6 phases: Phase 1 Discover - Phase 2 Elaborate - Phase 3 Plan - Phase 4 Build - Phase 5 Verify - Phase 6 Release

Process

Timing: bash scripts/bp-timing.sh start survey-context at invocation; bash scripts/bp-timing.sh end survey-context before handoff.

1. Read CONVENTIONS.md

If CONVENTIONS.md exists at the project root, read it first. It contains the rules all agents must follow in this project.

2. Read specs/ (YAML-first)

Scan the specs/ directory if it exists:

specs/
├── state.yaml                  → session: active_flow, epic, git, handoff
├── release-plan.yaml           → target version, WSJF epic index
├── execution-status.yaml       → flat story/epic status
├── planning-status.yaml        → discover-phase checklist (optional)
├── requirements/
│   ├── VISION_LATEST.yaml
│   ├── SCOPE_LATEST.yaml
│   └── GLOSSARY_LATEST.yaml
├── plans/                      → TECH_STACK, TEST_PLAN, etc.
├── epics/                      → eNN shards (flat yaml or eNN/stories/)
└── bugs/                       → BUG-*.md + registry.yaml

For each YAML file found, note: exists? keys populated? handoff.next_skill?

Legacy markdown (specs/archive/STATE.md, RELEASE-PLAN.md) is not SoT if YAML exists.

→ verify: bash scripts/validate-specs-yaml.sh

3. Read CLAUDE.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. today First seen · 141 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 06c4b1d6dd0f

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survey-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (163 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,486 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 2026-09-03.