What is dbs-good-question?

A question-clarifying guide that turns vague requests into clear instructions an AI agent can reason about, challenge, and check. It also estimates how much of the work can be automated.

Use it to clarify a request, write a well-formed problem brief, or assess whether an AI agent can solve the task.

It removes uncertainty about what the requester really wants and whether an agent can handle it. This helps prevent unclear answers and unsuitable automation.

dbs-good-question — Skill by dontbesilent2025/dbskill

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 dontbesilent2025/dbskill --skill dbs-good-question

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dontbesilent2025/dbskill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dbs, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin dbs-good-question — /plugin install dbs-good-question after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dontbesilent2025/dbskill/dbs-good-question/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dontbesilent2025/dbskill/dbs-good-question)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dontbesilent2025/dbskill/dbs-good-question"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dontbesilent2025/dbskill/dbs-good-question/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dontbesilent2025/dbskill/dbs-good-question"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dontbesilent2025/dbskill/dbs-good-question.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,244 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. Third-party audits

Socket pass 27 Oct 2026
Snyk pass 27 Oct 2026
NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

Origin unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00070	$0.03244
Opus 5.5	$0.00028	$0.01298
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00649
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00324

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7a482b6a800e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dbs-good-question 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 10d 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/dbs-good-question/SKILL.md · 219 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

10d ago Changed 7a482b6a800e
19d ago Changed · +7 lines 4a6cd7ef48ff
21d ago Changed · -243 lines 6abc765931f7
22d ago Changed 03a74de542c4
1mo ago Changed · +16 tokens per session 96452fa967fa
2mo ago First seen · 455 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b23a29585d6e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dbs-good-question is a skill published in the GitHub repository dontbesilent2025/dbskill (11,270 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 3,244 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

Planning

dbs-good-question next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
dbs-good-questiondontbesilent2025/dbskill	Skill	11k	3d ago	none	A	70	Claude Code, Codex
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	133k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	99k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	4d ago	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	313k	3d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	today	MIT	A	95	Claude Code
next-partial-prefetching-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	today	MIT	A	103	Claude Code