wonder

wonder is a skill for Claude Code from donald-ada/workinggenius. It costs 72 tokens per session (814 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interview-based skill for turning an initial idea into a confirmed problem statement. It asks the user questions before design or implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Clarifying a new idea, questioning the underlying problem, and starting the Wonder stage of the Working Genius process.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building the wrong solution because the original request was not fully understood.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the workinggenius plugin — 22 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Clarifying a new idea, questioning the underlying problem, and starting the Wonder stage of the Working Genius process.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/donald-ada/workinggenius/wonder
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.

Any agent
npx skills add donald-ada/workinggenius --skill wonder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/donald-ada/workinggenius

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workinggenius, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 3 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 814 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 $0.00072 $0.00814
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00081

Measured today against content hash ffd670beccbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wonder 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.

skills/wonder/SKILL.md · 29 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 29 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Wonder

The genius of questioning. Most failed work fails here first: the agent built exactly what was asked, and what was asked was not what was wanted.

The concept: confirm the problem before designing anything. Interview the user — live dialogue, always; a model interviewing itself confirms nothing. How you interview is your judgment:

  • Ask only what the user alone can answer — everything the repo, the history or the docs can settle is homework, not a question. Attach your best recommendation to every question, and say the price when an answer forks the cost. The one question no homework can settle is how they will judge it done — the run they would make, the number they would look at, the case they would try first — and it goes into the problem statement in their words, because a success the interviewer wrote and they nodded at confirms the interviewer's picture, and the bar they actually hold arrives otherwise at close-out, when meeting it costs the most.
  • Ask in rounds — a batch of independent questions in one message, the next round grown from the answers. The one-question drip costs round-trips and patience; a wall of everything is a form, not an interview.
  • Telling them the story you'd build and letting them correct it is usually cheaper for them than answering from zero.
  • Ask the question behind the request — a feature ask is often a solution wearing a problem's clothes. "Don't build this" is a successful outcome.
  • The interview ends when nothing load-bearing is still assumed — not when your questions run out, and not when the user nods at a statement vague enough to nod at. Ending early is the user's line to say ("enough — go with your recommendations"), never an exit you offer them; when they say it, record what you assumed.
  • An architecture question surfacing mid-interview is a fork, not small talk — answered casually, it becomes a defaulted decision. Name /architect and let the user call it; the interview recommends, it never dispatches.

Read the full file on GitHub · 29 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 Changed ffd670beccbd
  2. 2d ago Changed · +8 lines 207053a90dbd
  3. 7d ago First seen · 21 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 42f220cd1c96

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wonder is a skill published in the GitHub repository donald-ada/workinggenius (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 814 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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