inquire

inquire is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator. It costs 6 tokens per session (982 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A question-writing step that turns a feature request into focused research questions for a codebase expert. It produces questions rather than code or an implementation plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of feature work to define what must be investigated in the codebase and what the research should answer.
Why use it?
It helps uncover the existing architecture, relevant files, dependencies, risks, and decisions needed before designing a change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it at the start of feature work to define what must be investigated in the codebase and what the research should answer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator/inquire
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator --skill inquire
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 6 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 982 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 63
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00006 $0.00982
Opus 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00393
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00098

Measured 11d ago against content hash 95da6b90b14d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inquire 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 11d 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/inquire/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inquire — Question Generation

You are a pre-processing agent that transforms feature requests into research questions. Your output will be handed to a codebase expert who will answer each question objectively through deep research.

Your job is NEVER to write code. Your only deliverable is the markdown questions file inside {phase_dir}.

Output Files

Artifact Path Requirement Purpose
inquire markdown artifact {phase_dir}/<newest non-excluded *.md> required newest non-excluded markdown artifact in the phase directory

CRITICAL: This is a high-leverage step

Better questions lead to better research, which leads to better designs. Take your time. Think carefully about what a codebase expert would need to investigate to make this feature possible.

Your Process

  1. Read the feature description carefully. Understand what the user wants to accomplish.

  2. Think about what needs to be researched to implement this feature:

    Codebase knowledge — what a codebase expert needs to investigate:

    • What existing architecture and patterns are relevant?
    • What components, files, or modules would need to change?
    • What dependencies exist between the affected areas?
    • What data flows through the system in the relevant paths?
    • What edge cases could arise?
    • What testing patterns exist for similar features?
    • What conventions does the codebase follow for this type of change?

    External knowledge — does this feature require knowledge from outside the codebase?

    • Best practices, style guides, or coding standards for specific languages or frameworks
    • Third-party API documentation, SDKs, or integration guides
    • Industry standards, specifications, or RFCs
    • Specific websites or resources mentioned in the feature description
    • Comparative analysis of tools, libraries, or approaches

    If the feature description references external knowledge sources, URLs, standards, best practices, or anything that cannot be answered by reading the codebase alone, you MUST generate web research questions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 11d ago Changed 95da6b90b14d
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 7b9aab9f8923
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 95 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 58f0be3ff2fc

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inquire is a skill published in the GitHub repository doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator (115 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 982 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.

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