scope-framing

scope-framing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android. It costs 48 tokens per session (463 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preparation step for research that defines the decision it should support, who will use the findings, what completion looks like, and what is excluded.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before investigating products, technical approaches, business questions, or any topic where the research needs a clear deliverable.
Why use it?
Research can continue indefinitely or answer a technically correct question that does not help anyone decide. It keeps the work focused on a useful outcome.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android/scope-framing
Any agent
npx skills add ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android --skill scope-framing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 463 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 $0.00048 $0.00463
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00046

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7a1f8ede070c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scope-framing 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/scope-framing/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Scope Framing

Answer every question before starting research. Write the answers into a brief scope document: one paragraph or a short list per question. Then proceed. If you cannot answer question 1, ask the user before starting.

Required Questions

1. What decision will this research serve? One sentence. Name the decision that will change based on what you find. If no decision is downstream of this research, the research has no purpose. Example: "Whether to use package X or build a custom implementation."

2. Who will act on the findings? Name the actor: a user, an agent, or another system. Different actors need different formats and levels of detail. An agent needs a recommendation. A decision-maker needs tradeoffs. Someone following instructions needs steps.

3. What does "done" look like? Name the specific deliverable that closes this research. Not "I understand the topic" but "a one-page comparison of options A, B, and C with a recommendation." Research without a defined end state expands forever.

4. What is explicitly out of scope? Name at least 2 things you will not research. Naming exclusions forces a scope decision and prevents drift. If you cannot name exclusions, your scope is not defined yet.

5. What would make this research useless? Identify failure modes before you start. Common causes: wrong scope (you answered a related but different question), stale data (the information is outdated for the version in use), missing context (you don't have access to a key constraint that changes the answer).

Output

Write the scope document before doing any research. Save it or include it at the top of your research output. If scope cannot be defined (if question 1 has no answer), stop and ask the user to clarify the decision before you proceed.

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. 3d ago First seen · 34 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 7a1f8ede070c

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scope-framing is a skill published in the GitHub repository ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android (222 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 463 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.