dx-frame

dx-frame is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dikamilo/dx-workflow. It costs 23 tokens per session (763 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 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/dikamilo/dx-workflow/dx-frame
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, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 763 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 $0.00023 $0.00763
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00381
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00076

Measured 4d ago against content hash cdd249eb33f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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 · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 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.

1 — Gather settled context

Read change.md (or effort.md) — note type. 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. Read foundation/glossary.md for naming (a one-line habit — no section). Each artifact is a decision already made.

If the interview below surfaces a term that clashes with the glossary, is vague/overloaded, or finally gets pinned down, invoke dx-domain right then — don't just note it and keep talking.

2 — Interview (invoke dx-references with interview)

One question at a time, each offering a few concrete options with one recommended, walking the decision tree until the framing resolves. If the codebase or a research doc can answer a question, explore instead of asking. Scale the count down by whatever upstream already settled. Stay on the WHAT — the real problem and the alternatives — never solution design; that is dx-plan's job. Don't manufacture a reframe: "the initial framing was right" is a valid outcome.

If change.md's type is refactor (or this is a refactor effort), also invoke dx-references with module-design and frame in its vocabulary — deep vs shallow modules, seams, the deletion test.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 4d 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 (5 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 763 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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