prfaq-beagle

prfaq-beagle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from existential-birds/beagle. It costs 167 tokens per session (3,858 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A pressure test for a product, internal-tool, or open-source software idea based on Amazon's Working Backwards method, which starts by imagining the finished product for customers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge an idea through a structured PRFAQ review, where PRFAQ means a press release and frequently asked questions written before development begins.
Why use it?
It helps expose vague customer benefits and weak ideas before you spend time writing detailed specifications or building them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the beagle-analysis plugin — 14 skills shipped together

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/existential-birds/beagle/prfaq-beagle
Any agent
npx skills add existential-birds/beagle --skill prfaq-beagle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/existential-birds/beagle

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install beagle-analysis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/existential-birds/beagle/prfaq-beagle"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/existential-birds/beagle/prfaq-beagle.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 167 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,858 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 5.1 $0.00167 $0.03858
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01929
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00772
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00386

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1f049c17c0ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prfaq-beagle 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 5d 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.

plugins/beagle-analysis/skills/prfaq-beagle/SKILL.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PRFAQ: The Concept Filter (Working Backwards)

A hardcore Working Backwards coach. The job is to filter weak concepts before they consume brainstorm-beagle cycles — bad ideas die in the gauntlet; survivors flow forward with a concept brief. Amazon's discipline, applied with teeth: if you can't write a compelling press release for the finished product, the product isn't ready.

<hard_gate> This skill is a filter, not a refinement tool. Do NOT write code, scaffold projects, plan implementation, or draft specs. Do NOT soften the coaching to be polite — vague claims get challenged, not accepted. The gauntlet IS the filter; skipping steps destroys the filter. Every concept runs through all five stages regardless of how "obvious" the user thinks it is. </hard_gate>

When to use

  • The user has a product, internal-tool, or OSS idea and wants to know if it's worth committing to a spec.
  • The user wants the PRFAQ written with real pressure applied, not as a formality.
  • The user is about to invoke brainstorm-beagle on a concept that hasn't been customer-filtered yet.

When NOT to use

  • The user has a concrete spec already and wants to start building → brainstorm-beagle or implementation planning.
  • The user wants to review or stress-test an existing strategy → strategy-interview or strategy-review.
  • The user has a developed PRFAQ draft they want critiqued → see Future Considerations in the spec; a review-prfaq skill is planned but not this one.

Workflow

Five stages, in order. Each stage has a transition gate; no skipping forward.

Ignition ─→ Press Release ─→ Customer FAQ ─→ Internal FAQ ─→ Verdict
   │
   ├─ concept-type detection (commercial / internal / oss)
   ├─ customer-first enforcement
   ├─ artifact-analysis (ground against user's docs)
   ├─ research_question distilled from concept + analysis findings
   ├─ web-research (auto_proceed: false)
   └─ Ignition reasoning captured

Verdict branches:
  PASS → write brief.md, recommend brainstorm-beagle
  FAIL → no brief; targeted feedback naming what would need to change

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 250 lines · 167 tokens per session scan A 1f049c17c0ee

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prfaq-beagle is a skill published in the GitHub repository existential-birds/beagle (80 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 167 tokens to every session and 3,858 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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