frame-a-proposal

frame-a-proposal is a skill for Claude Code from inkeep/open-knowledge-skills. It costs 136 tokens per session (3,307 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for writing a design proposal in RFC form, where RFC means a document intended for review and discussion. It starts with the problem and affected people, then compares options, drawbacks, and unresolved questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Drafting feature proposals, technical designs, product requirements, and other changes that need structured review.
Why use it?
It prevents a team from jumping straight to a preferred solution without understanding the problem or considering alternatives. Reviewers get a clear document they can challenge before a decision is made.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the software-lifecycle plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Drafting feature proposals, technical designs, product requirements, and other changes that need structured review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/inkeep/open-knowledge-skills/frame-a-proposal
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 inkeep/open-knowledge-skills --skill frame-a-proposal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install software-lifecycle, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,307 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00136 $0.03307
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01654
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00661
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00331

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6fa6b8747ef1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frame-a-proposal 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 8d 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/starter-packs/software-lifecycle/frame-a-proposal/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Frame a proposal — turn a problem into a reviewable RFC

The platform /open-knowledge skill still governs every markdown operation here (reads via exec/search, writes via write/edit, links as plain relative markdown, never native Read/Edit/Grep/cat on in-scope files). This skill layers proposal-authoring craft on top: it decides what a good proposal contains and in what order you earn each section.

A proposal in proposals/ is a design argument, not a decision and not a plan. It exists to force a choice among options and to give reviewers enough to disagree with. Filename is 0001-feature-name.md — a zero-padded 4-digit sequence plus a kebab title. Status flows draft → fcp → accepted/rejected (fcp = final comment period). Acceptance graduates the proposal to a record in decisions/ — that is a separate, human act and a separate skill.

The failure this skill exists to prevent: an agent jumping to ## Design before anyone agrees what the problem is, padding ## Alternatives with strawmen, and leaving ## Drawbacks empty. Each step below has a gate that blocks that.


Mandatory execution order

Hard gates — do NOT skip ahead. If you are about to draft ## Design and you have not passed the Step 1 framing gate, STOP — you skipped a gate. The whole point of a proposal is that the problem is agreed before the solution is written.

  1. Scan prior art — what already exists on this subsystem, in proposals/ and decisions/.
  2. Frame the problem — STOP gate. Name beneficiary, observable change, forced decision. Get confirmation before any solution text.
  3. Allocate the sequence number and create from the proposal template.
  4. Motivation — problem, evidence, who is hurt today, cost of doing nothing, and explicit non-goals.
  5. Design — the proposal at an altitude a reader can disagree with.
  6. Alternatives — at least two real ones, each with why-not.
  7. Drawbacks — the honest cost.
  8. Unresolved questions — a live backlog, each with a resolver and resolving evidence.
  9. Link + validate.
  10. Recap + what advancing to fcp would require.

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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. 8d ago First seen · 223 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A 6fa6b8747ef1

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frame-a-proposal is a skill published in the GitHub repository inkeep/open-knowledge-skills (8 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 3,307 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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