resolve-beagle

resolve-beagle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from existential-birds/beagle. It costs 170 tokens per session (2,653 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A specification-review skill for finding and answering unresolved questions before software planning or implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Researching open questions, addressing hidden gaps, and updating a specification until planning can start.
Why use it?
It helps prevent plans from relying on missing requirements or placeholder decisions.

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/resolve-beagle
Any agent
npx skills add existential-birds/beagle --skill resolve-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.

agentmods badge for resolve-beagle

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/existential-birds/beagle/resolve-beagle.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/existential-birds/beagle/resolve-beagle)
Your own site
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Per session 170 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,653 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 $0.00170 $0.02653
Opus 5 $0.00085 $0.01326
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00531
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00265

Measured 5d ago against content hash 419df911f3b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

resolve-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/resolve-beagle/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Resolve: Close Spec Gaps

Take a spec produced by brainstorm-beagle and close its remaining gaps — both the explicit Open Questions and the latent ones the self-review missed — by researching, proposing answers, and rewriting the spec in place.

The terminal state is a spec with no known open questions and no placeholder requirements. Planning can start immediately after.

<hard_gate> This skill does not write code, scaffold projects, design architecture, or create implementation plans. It only edits the spec document. "Answering an open question" means proposing a WHAT/WHY answer with rationale — never a HOW. If a question turns out to require implementation design, defer it with a note and move on. </hard_gate>

Gates (pass before next step)

Objective pass conditions so steps are not skippable by assertion alone:

  1. Spec located — The target file path is known and Read succeeds (or the user supplied a valid path after you listed 3–5 recent docs/specs/ candidates).
  2. Gap list published — One message lists every explicit Open Question bullet and each latent gap you will treat as in-scope. Do not dispatch research until the user adjusts the list (add/remove/defer) or explicitly tells you to proceed with that list.
  3. Research artifact per gap — Before you present a proposal for gap G, you have a structured note for G: recommended answer, 1–2 rejected alternatives with reasons, and evidence (file:line, URL, or in-spec citation). No proposal without that artifact.
  4. One proposal queue — Do not open the next gap’s proposal until the current gap has a clear outcome (accepted, revised wording applied, rejected with what happens next, or deferred with reason).
  5. Rewrite reconciled — After editing, you read the full spec once and resolve cross-section contradictions; then run the self-review checklist from ../brainstorm-beagle/references/spec-reviewer.md with failures fixed in-session unless the user opts for a follow-up pass.
  6. Commit — No git commit unless the user answered yes to the commit prompt in § Committing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 170 lines · 170 tokens per session scan A 419df911f3b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

resolve-beagle is a skill published in the GitHub repository existential-birds/beagle (79 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 2,653 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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