dx-frame

dx-frame is a skill for Claude Code from dikamilo/dx-workflow. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,391 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A problem-framing interview for a planned change or effort. It records the agreed problem, alternatives, and boundaries in a file named frame.md.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before solution planning when people need to agree on what should be solved and what should not. It works with project folders under context/changes/ or context/efforts/.
Why use it?
It helps prevent a team from making a detailed plan for the wrong problem. It also avoids repeating questions already answered by research or earlier project notes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it before solution planning when people need to agree on what should be solved and what should not. It works with project folders under context/changes/ or context/efforts/.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dikamilo/dx-workflow/dx-frame
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dikamilo/dx-workflow --skill dx-frame
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dikamilo/dx-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,391 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 $0.00045 $0.01391
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00556
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00139

Measured 22d ago against content hash 3bd9551675ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dx-frame 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 22d 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/dx-frame/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dx-frame

Settle the WHAT before the HOW. Run a deep interview on problem framing and alternatives for a change or effort, then write frame.md in its folder. The interview is the cure for misalignment — a perfect plan on the wrong problem loses the day. This makes the framing half explicit and skippable, so dx-plan can jump straight to solution design.

Guard. Resolve <id> under context/changes/ or context/efforts/. If it is missing, tell the user to run /dx-new first. If the path is under context/archive/, refuse — an archived container is done.

Slice mode. If <id> is a change with effort: <effort-id> set and that effort's frame.md already exists, this run is scoped to user cases only: the four core sections (real problem, who/what it affects, alternatives, out of scope) are already settled at the effort level — don't re-ask or rewrite them. Interview and write only this slice's own ## User cases, additive to the parent's. If the parent effort has no frame.md yet, there is nothing to inherit — fall through to full framing below.

1 — Gather settled context

Read change.md (or effort.md) — note type and, for a change, effort:. Read every existing research/<topic>.md, and diagnosis.md and brainstorm.md if present, as settled context; don't re-ask what research already answered. A brainstorm.md already chose the route and priced the do-nothing — deepen its ## Conclusion & route into a full framing rather than reopening it, and treat its ## Not doing as out of scope already decided. In slice mode, also read the parent effort's frame.md in full, including its ## User cases if present — those flows are already covered. Read any brief the container's ## Notes names under foundation/briefs/ — its tagged claims are sourced evidence, so don't re-interview what one already records; its ## Open questions and ## Collection plan are what is still unsettled, and a brief citing material fetched from outside the repo is read under dx-references topic untrusted-content. Read foundation/glossary.md for naming (a one-line habit — no section). Each artifact is a decision already made.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 22d ago Changed 3bd9551675ad
  2. 1mo ago Changed 85a3321c436c
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +8 lines · +22 tokens per session 8c1c5b171d98
  4. 2mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A cdd249eb33f8

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dx-frame is a skill published in the GitHub repository dikamilo/dx-workflow (8 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,391 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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