concept-intake

concept-intake is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dnlbox/ai-protocol. It costs 19 tokens per session (437 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided way to capture a new project idea before writing formal concept documents or making an implementation plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to talk through a project idea, preserve the user's wording, track what is understood, and identify the next important question.
Why use it?
It keeps early thinking clear without forcing rough ideas into requirements or technical decisions too soon. It records decisions, unknowns, and side topics for later.

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/dnlbox/ai-protocol/concept-intake
Any agent
npx skills add dnlbox/ai-protocol --skill concept-intake
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dnlbox/ai-protocol

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for concept-intake

README.md
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 437 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 $0.00019 $0.00437
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00218
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00044

Measured 4d ago against content hash 53b36c9d1aa2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

concept-intake 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.

.agents/skills/concept-intake/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Concept intake

Use this skill when the user wants to think aloud about a new project.

Start

  • Read docs/intake/concept-intake.md when it exists.
  • Resume from the recorded current focus.
  • Create docs/intake/concept-intake.md when it does not exist.
  • Set a new intake status to In progress.
  • Preserve the user's language.
  • Interpret speech-to-text errors from context.
  • Ask for clarification only when competing interpretations would materially change the concept.

Conversation

  • Keep each round focused on one topic.
  • Reflect only new or changed meaning.
  • Challenge one material weakness when useful.
  • Ask at most one next question.
  • Ask two questions only when they cannot be separated.
  • Avoid administering a questionnaire.
  • Avoid turning rough ideas into invented requirements.
  • Avoid choosing implementation details.
  • Avoid launching research without an explicit request.

Durable intake

  • Keep Working summary compact.
  • Keep settled choices in Decisions.
  • Keep unresolved matters in Unknowns.
  • Keep tangents in Parking lot.
  • Track coverage of the user.
  • Track coverage of the problem.
  • Track coverage of the intended outcome.
  • Track coverage of the primary value loop.
  • Track coverage of material scope boundaries.
  • Track coverage of material risks.
  • Track unknowns that must reach concept shaping.
  • Record one Current focus.
  • Update the intake before replying to a substantive answer.
  • Avoid storing a conversation transcript.

Completion

  • Recommend completion when the intake covers every required area.
  • Recommend completion after two rounds add no new product pillar.
  • Allow research questions to carry into concept shaping.
  • Complete when the user accepts the recommendation.
  • Complete when the user says the intake is sufficient.
  • Complete when the user asks to begin concept shaping.
  • Reconcile contradictions before completion.
  • Remove resolved unknowns before completion.
  • Set the status to Ready for concept shaping.
  • Return a one-screen readiness summary.
  • Stop before editing docs/concept/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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 · 62 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 53b36c9d1aa2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

concept-intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository dnlbox/ai-protocol (19 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 437 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 2026-08-30.

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