elicit-requirements

elicit-requirements is a skill for Claude Code from faizkhairi/claude-code-blueprint. It costs 79 tokens per session (919 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided question set for defining a new software feature or API endpoint before coding starts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to agree on the problem, users, expected behaviour, acceptance criteria, exclusions, and unanswered questions.
Why use it?
It helps uncover unclear scope, missing edge cases, and technical limits before they cause rework.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to agree on the problem, users, expected behaviour, acceptance criteria, exclusions, and unanswered questions.

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Any agent
npx skills add faizkhairi/claude-code-blueprint --skill elicit-requirements
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/faizkhairi/claude-code-blueprint

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 919 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00079 $0.00919
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00460
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00092

Measured 10d ago against content hash 37cf06933657, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elicit-requirements 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/elicit-requirements/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Elicit Requirements: Structured Pre-Feature Clarification

Run this before writing any new feature to avoid scope creep, missed edge cases, and mid-implementation discoveries that force rewrites.

Elicitation Workflow

Work through these sections with the user. Ask grouped questions; do not ask one at a time.


1. Problem Statement

Ask:

  • What problem are we solving, and for whom?
  • What triggers this feature? (user action, external system push, scheduled job, webhook)
  • What is the expected outcome when it works correctly?
  • What is the expected behaviour when it fails?

2. User Roles and Stakeholders

Ask:

  • Which user roles interact with this directly? (admin, developer, end user, external system)
  • Which roles are indirectly affected? (e.g., reports they see change, notifications they receive)
  • For integration features: which external system is involved? (identify from project context or ask)

3. Technical Constraints

For integration or API features, always clarify:

Constraint Questions
System Which external system?
Direction INBOUND (system pushes to us) or OUTBOUND (we push to system)?
Trigger API call, webhook, scheduled job, file arrival?
Data format JSON? XML? CSV? Other?
Auth JWT? API key? mTLS? None (internal only)?
Error handling Retry? Dead-letter queue? Alert? Silent fail?
Idempotency Must duplicate calls be safe?

4. Acceptance Criteria

For each piece of functionality, define:

  • What HTTP endpoint (method + path) if applicable
  • What the success response looks like (status code, key fields)
  • What DB rows are created/updated and with which values
  • What external calls are made (APIs, storage, queues)
  • What happens on error (validation fail, external system down, duplicate)

Acceptance criteria must be verifiable without human judgement. If it says "looks good" or "works correctly" it is not an acceptance criterion.

Good: POST /api/v1/orders returns 202 with { "jobId": "<uuid>" } and creates job row with status='PENDING'

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. 10d ago First seen · 127 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 37cf06933657

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elicit-requirements is a skill published in the GitHub repository faizkhairi/claude-code-blueprint (70 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 919 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 2026-08-30.

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