clearthought

clearthought is a skill for Claude Code from giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit. It costs 41 tokens per session (942 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured planning and reasoning guide for complex coding tasks. It helps break unclear requirements, bugs, design choices, and large changes into smaller decisions and tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps analyse root causes, compare architecture or refactoring options, map system effects, design experiments, and create implementation and review plans.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of editing code before the problem or trade-offs are understood. It provides different approaches for investigation, planning, comparison, and risk review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

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/giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit/clearthought
Any agent
npx skills add giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit --skill clearthought
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 942 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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00942
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00471
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00094

Measured 6d ago against content hash 00cfbd279347, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clearthought 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.

.agents/skills/clearthought/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ClearThought

Use ClearThought to turn complex or ambiguous coding work into an evidence-based implementation plan.

Best Use

Use this skill when:

  • requirements are broad, conflicting, or under-specified;
  • a bug needs root-cause analysis before editing;
  • an architecture or refactor decision has tradeoffs;
  • a task needs to be split into small pull-request sized steps;
  • the user asks for deliberate reasoning, ClearThought, or a structured decision.

Operations

Choose the narrowest operation that fits:

  • sequential_thinking: decompose a complex request into ordered work.
  • debugging_approach: isolate a broken behavior with hypotheses and checks.
  • decision_framework: compare implementation options and choose one.
  • systems_thinking: map components, contracts, and side effects.
  • scientific_method: define hypothesis, metric, baseline, experiment, and result.
  • risk_review: identify safety, security, data, and rollback risks.
  • implementation_plan: produce an edit plan, validation plan, and review checklist.

If the operation is omitted, infer it from the request. Default to sequential_thinking.

External-controller precedence

When the same task selects or requests an external controller through agent-control-center or swap-control-center, resolve controller ownership before choosing a ClearThought operation. The active host may only freeze the problem, observed evidence, assumptions, unknown user decisions, scope, authorization, budget, and acceptance criteria.

The host must not split the task, assign file or module ownership, choose workers, decide architecture, or accept the final result. It sends the frozen reasoning envelope to the external controller. The controller applies the selected ClearThought operation, creates bounded work orders, reviews returned evidence, and decides. The host may relay ask-user, dispatch approved work orders, and return unaltered receipts to the same controller session.

Treat an explicit request to use ClearThought as a reasoning method for the selected external controller, not as authority for the host to decompose first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 121 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 00cfbd279347

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clearthought is a skill published in the GitHub repository giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit (21 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 942 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.

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