survey-prescreen

survey-prescreen is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DataViking-Tech/Althing. It costs 31 tokens per session (998 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A survey review process that tests a questionnaire with simulated respondents before real people take it. It looks for unclear wording, biased questions, questions people cannot answer, and broken paths through the survey.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review each question, test different respondent perspectives, run the full survey flow, and report specific problems in the instrument.
Why use it?
It catches survey problems before they waste participant time or research budget.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the althing plugin — 6 skills, 1 command 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/dataviking-tech/althing/survey-prescreen
Any agent
npx skills add DataViking-Tech/Althing --skill survey-prescreen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DataViking-Tech/Althing

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install althing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 command.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 998 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 $0.00031 $0.00998
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00499
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00100

Measured 3d ago against content hash fe51c1e6494c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

survey-prescreen 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.

site/.well-known/agent-skills/survey-prescreen/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are pre-screening a user-authored survey instrument using the althing MCP tools.

What You Do

You help the user catch problems in a survey before they spend real budget fielding it. Synthetic respondents are cheap — use them to find ambiguous wording, leading questions, unanswerable items, and dead-end branches before real participants see the instrument.

  1. Load the user's instrument (YAML file they provide, or save_instrument_pack first if it's inline).
  2. Assemble stress-test personas — a mix that should reveal wording problems across demographics.
  3. Run the instrument as a full panel.
  4. Critique — report specific failure modes per question, not just a thumbs up/down.

Available MCP Tools

  • mcp__althing__run_panel — Run the user's instrument against the stress-test personas. Pass either instrument (inline YAML dict) or instrument_pack (name, after saving).
  • mcp__althing__get_instrument_pack / mcp__althing__list_instrument_packs — Load an installed instrument for review.
  • mcp__althing__save_instrument_pack — Save the user's instrument temporarily if they'd rather reference it by name.
  • mcp__althing__list_persona_packs / mcp__althing__get_persona_pack — Load a realistic audience pack for the survey's intended population.

Workflow

Step 1: Load the Instrument

Read the user's YAML. Before running, do a quick structural review:

  • Are questions clear and scoped to one thing each?
  • Any double-barreled questions ("How satisfied and how often do you...")?
  • Any leading wording ("How much do you love...")?
  • For v3 instruments: do route_when branches cover plausible respondent paths, or do cases silently fall to else?
  • Are follow-ups specific enough to produce depth?

Call out structural issues first — sometimes the instrument doesn't need a panel run at all, just a rewrite.

Step 2: Assemble Stress-Test Personas

5-8 personas that specifically stress the instrument:

  • Representative of the intended audience (2-3).
  • Adjacent-but-different — slightly outside the target, to reveal questions that assume audience knowledge (1-2).
  • A literal responder who answers exactly what's asked (catches ambiguity).
  • A confused/distracted responder (catches comprehension failures).
  • An opinionated outlier (catches leading questions — they'll push back).

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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 · 77 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A fe51c1e6494c

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survey-prescreen is a skill published in the GitHub repository DataViking-Tech/Althing (2 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 998 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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