clarify

clarify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from genkovich/sdd. It costs 202 tokens per session (2,998 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review tool for finding unclear or incomplete parts of a written feature specification before design or implementation begins. It checks for vague terms, missing edge cases, unclear permissions, conflicting requirements, and undefined words.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a spec, resolve its ambiguities with the user, or record unresolved questions with an owner and deadline.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that two developers will interpret the same specification differently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sdd plugin — 22 skills, 11 agents 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/genkovich/sdd/clarify
Any agent
npx skills add genkovich/sdd --skill clarify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/genkovich/sdd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sdd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 11 agents.

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 clarify

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/genkovich/sdd/clarify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/genkovich/sdd/clarify.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 202 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,998 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 $0.00202 $0.02998
Opus 5 $0.00101 $0.01499
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00600
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00300

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7f37c4878b95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clarify 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 4d 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/clarify/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: clarify

Ambiguity sweep over a written spec.md. It hunts the spec for under-specified points — vague terms, unmeasured NFRs, AC missing error/authz/edge behavior, unstated assumptions, conflicting requirements, undefined domain terms, missing actors, scope creep — then dispatches a clean-context devil's-advocate subagent that re-reads the spec fresh and answers one question: where would two engineers reasonably build different things from this? Each ambiguity it surfaces is closed with the user: either resolved (the spec is tightened in place) or deferred (a §8 Open-Questions row with owner + due). It exists so glossary / design never proceed on an ambiguous spec.

This is a sweep, not a full authoring stage — it does not run the shared Socratic loop or the coherence critic. Its shared dependencies: → ../_shared/critic.md (clean-context dispatch discipline only — the subagent here hunts AMBIGUITY, not coherence drift) · ../_shared/ask-style.md (resolve/defer question phrasing).

Depth governs how aggressively the sweep hunts + the per-finding question volume → ../_shared/interview-depth.md. (Every surfaced ambiguity is still Resolved or Deferred at every level — that's a floor, not a dial.)

Spec tightenings follow artifact_language — but the existing spec's language wins over the setting (never retro-translate mid-sweep); headings and machine tokens stay English → ../_shared/artifact-language.md.

Owner

PM + Tech Lead (the spec's co-authors resolve their own ambiguities). PM owns vague-term / scope / missing-actor calls; Tech Lead owns unmeasured-NFR / under-specified-AC / conflicting-requirement calls.

Inputs

  • <slug> — same feature slug used by specify.
  • Gate (hard-refuse if missing): docs/features/<slug>/spec.md. Absent → STOP and point: «run specify <slug> first — clarify sharpens an existing spec, it does not write one».
  • (Optional) CONTEXT.md — two-level: read both repo-root (project-wide) and docs/features/<slug>/CONTEXT.md (feature-scoped; wins on conflict) → ../glossary/SKILL.md; if present, ## Glossary is canonical; an "undefined-term" finding for a word already glossed at either level is a false positive (drop it).
  • Fast lane (XS/S): when specify produced zero §8 open questions and flagged no ambiguous AC, the skip of this stage is offered by specify's handoff (→ the fast lane in ../_shared/size-matrix.md) — the user takes it there; clarify itself never auto-skips.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 4d ago First seen · 76 lines · 202 tokens per session scan A 7f37c4878b95

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clarify is a skill published in the GitHub repository genkovich/sdd (118 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 202 tokens to every session and 2,998 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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