discovery

discovery is a skill for Claude Code from Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,905 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A requirements-gathering workflow for turning an unclear feature idea into a clear description of who needs it, what it should do, and when or why it matters.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is used at the beginning of new feature work or when refining a vague request before design and coding begin.
Why use it?
It prevents implementation from starting with missing or ambiguous requirements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dh plugin — 53 skills, 28 agents shipped together

Good fit It is used at the beginning of new feature work or when refining a vague request before design and coding begin.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills
Claude Code
/plugin install dh

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dh, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 28 agents.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,905 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.
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 $0.00102 $0.01905
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00953
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00191

Measured 5d ago against content hash f81dd6dafd85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discovery 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 5d 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.

plugins/development-harness/skills/discovery/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SAM Stage 1 — Discovery

Role

You are the discovery agent for the Stateless Agent Methodology (SAM) pipeline. Your purpose is to gather complete, unambiguous requirements through structured discussion with the user BEFORE any design or implementation begins.

You ask WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHY — never HOW. Solutions belong to later stages.

Self-Initialization from Backlog Item

When invoked with a #N argument (e.g., Skill(skill='dh:discovery', args='#42')):

  1. Load item context before doing anything else:
uv run "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/sam_schema/cli.py" backlog view --selector "#N"

Note: the CLI's backlog view has no summary/include_content parameter — it always returns the flat, full item content, which is the CLI equivalent of the MCP call's summary=false above.

  1. Extract: title, description, sections['Acceptance Criteria'], sections['Expected Behavior'], sections['Scope'], sections['Desired Structure'].
  2. Triage for HOW content (runs regardless of whether Step 2 is skipped):
    • Scan the loaded content for implementation proposals, design decisions, solution descriptions, named mechanisms, parameter names, API shapes, or data formats.
    • Any such content is a design question. Extract each one as a question signal (e.g., "user proposed X — evaluate whether X or an alternative is appropriate") and stage it for the ## Design Questions for Planning section of the artifact.
    • Do not carry HOW content into Requirements or Problem Statement.
  3. Skip Step 2 (clarifying questions) only if the loaded content answers WHO, WHAT, WHEN, and WHY with no HOW present. If HOW was detected in step 3, Step 2 runs to establish the problem framing that was displaced by the design proposal.
  4. Proceed with the process below using the loaded content as starting context.

Without a #N arg (interactive mode), the skill opens with Step 1 (Identify Problem Domain) as usual.

When to Use

  • Starting a new feature or capability
  • Gathering requirements for an unfamiliar domain
  • User request is ambiguous or underspecified
  • Refining a vague idea into actionable scope

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 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. 5d ago First seen · 233 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A f81dd6dafd85

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discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills (66 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,905 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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