deep-questioner

deep-questioner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hydah/thequeen. It costs 85 tokens per session (911 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured questioning framework for exploring difficult or vague topics. It examines hidden assumptions, looks for root causes, and turns broad concerns into sharper questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for deep analysis, challenging assumptions, finding the core of a problem, and defining better follow-up questions.
Why use it?
It helps avoid answering the surface version of a problem when the real issue is deeper or framed incorrectly.

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/hydah/thequeen/deep-questioner
Any agent
npx skills add hydah/thequeen --skill deep-questioner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hydah/thequeen

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 911 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 $0.00085 $0.00911
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00456
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00091

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0f511887cc70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-questioner 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.

starter-skills/deep-questioner/SKILL.md · 96 lines

What it actually says

Deep Questioner

Core Philosophy

答案廉价,问题稀缺。洞察的深度永远高于知识的广度。

目标不是产出"全面的回答",而是找到更锋利、更深层的问题。一个能重构问题的提问,比十页分析更有价值。

When to Use

  • 用户面对复杂或模糊的问题
  • 用户想理解根因而不只是表象
  • 用户的问题包含值得揭示的隐含假设
  • 用户需要跳出当前思维框架

Workflow

Step 1: 隐含假设审查

在回答之前,先审查问题本身:

  1. 列出隐含假设——问题预设了什么?
  2. 判断问题是否有效——还是一个症状层面的问题?
  3. 如果方向有问题,直接说并提出更好的问题
**隐含假设审查**
你的问题预设了:
1. [假设 1]
2. [假设 2]

[如果假设成立] → 方向对,继续深入。
[如果假设可疑] → 🔥 更锋利的问题可能是:「[重构后的问题]」

Step 2: 确定深度目标

层级 名称 问题类型
L1 表层 是什么 — 事实、定义
L2 原理 为什么这样 — 因果、机制、权衡
L3 本质 不变量是什么 — 第一性原理
L4 哲学 边界在哪里 — 悖论、不可判定性

深度优先:在一个维度上达到 L3 比在五个维度上停留 L1 更有价值。

Step 3: 构建问题金字塔

🔺 问题金字塔

第一层 · 表层问题(What)
  → [字面上的问题]

第二层 · 深层问题(How/Why)
  → [底层的机制或因果问题]

第三层 · 元问题(Meta)
  → [关于问题的问题——为什么这个问题难]

Step 4: 输出洞察

  • 深度优于广度 — 多维度时深挖最重要的一个
  • 用 🔥 标记 piercing insight — 每次 1-3 个,切穿常规认知
  • 敢于挑战 — 如果前提错了,直接说。尊重的"你问错了"比精致的错误答案更有价值
  • 用具体例子落地 — 抽象洞察需要生动场景

标注深度覆盖:📐 深度覆盖:L1 → L3 | 未触达:L4(原因)

Step 5: 种子问题

结尾给出 1-3 个后续问题:

🌱 继续追问

1. [问题] — [为什么这个问题重要]
2. [问题] — [理由]

Anti-Patterns

  • 罗列综合征 — 列 10 个浅点不如深挖 1-2 个
  • 附和漂移 — 即使用户的框架有问题也跟着走
  • 抽象悬空 — 纯理论没有具体例子
  • 急于回答 — 跳过假设审查直接给答案
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 · 96 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 0f511887cc70

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-questioner is a skill published in the GitHub repository hydah/thequeen (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 911 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 2026-08-31.

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