ferrox-discuss-phase

ferrox-discuss-phase is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FerroxLabs/ferrox-factory. It costs 26 tokens per session (2,516 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gsd-discuss-phase, MIT.

A planning discussion guide that asks questions until the goals and approach for a coding task are clear, then records the decisions for later work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps clarify project requirements, compare approaches, and create a written context file that guides research and planning.
Why use it?
It removes uncertainty before implementation and prevents later agents from having to revisit unresolved choices.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Codex.

Part of the ferrox-core plugin — 81 skills, 42 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps clarify project requirements, compare approaches, and create a written context file that guides research and planning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ferroxlabs/ferrox-factory/ferrox-discuss-phase
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 FerroxLabs/ferrox-factory --skill ferrox-discuss-phase
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FerroxLabs/ferrox-factory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ferrox-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 81 skills, 42 agents, 7 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,516 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.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00026 $0.02516
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01258
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00503
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00252

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5637eaf4a5d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ferrox-discuss-phase 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to gsd-discuss-phase — 14 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/ferrox-discuss-phase/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

How it works:

  1. Load prior context (PROJECT.md, REQUIREMENTS.md, STATE.md, prior CONTEXT.md files)
  2. Scout codebase for reusable assets and patterns
  3. Analyze phase — skip gray areas already decided in prior phases
  4. Present remaining gray areas — user selects which to discuss
  5. Deep-dive each selected area until satisfied
  6. Create CONTEXT.md with decisions that guide research and planning

Output: {phase_num}-CONTEXT.md — decisions clear enough that downstream agents can act without asking the user again

<execution_context> Workflow files are loaded on-demand in the section below — not upfront. Do not pre-load any workflow files before reading the mode routing instructions. </execution_context>

<runtime_note> Copilot (VS Code): Use vscode_askquestions wherever this workflow calls AskUserQuestion. They are equivalent — vscode_askquestions is the VS Code Copilot implementation of the same interactive question API. </runtime_note>

Context files are resolved in-workflow using init phase-op and roadmap/state tool calls.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 6d ago First seen · 78 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 5637eaf4a5d9

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ferrox-discuss-phase is a skill published in the GitHub repository FerroxLabs/ferrox-factory (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,516 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to gsd-discuss-phase, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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