boost

A workflow for turning a rough idea into a detailed implementation prompt before coding begins. It asks for missing decisions and produces the refined prompt rather than implementation code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify feature requests, plan changes, and prepare a precise prompt for another coding step.
Why use it?
It helps expose unclear requirements and technical choices before development starts, reducing guesswork during implementation.

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/jenreh/appkit/boost
Any agent
npx skills add jenreh/appkit --skill boost
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jenreh/appkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 138 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,078 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 $0.00138 $0.01078
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.00539
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00108

Measured 2d ago against content hash ddc783e9f085, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

boost 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/boost/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Boost — Prompt Refinement Workflow

Help the user turn a rough idea or vague request into a precise, detailed implementation plan prompt. Do NOT write or generate any implementation code. Your output is always a refined prompt — not the solution itself.

Workflow

0. Enter plan mode

Call EnterPlanMode immediately. This enforces the no-code constraint at the tool level and ensures the final refined prompt is delivered through the plan approval interface.

1. Understand the raw request

Read what the user gave you. If it's a vague idea ("I want to add auth"), that's fine — start there. If it's a half-written prompt, work from it.

Ask yourself:

  • What is the user actually trying to build or change?
  • What's still unclear or underspecified?

2. Explore the project

Use available tools to build context before asking the user anything:

  • Memory MCP (memory/*, if available): query first — the user may have prior decisions, preferences, or architectural notes stored from past sessions that directly inform this task. Search for relevant entities (project name, framework, patterns, past decisions on similar features).
  • Read key files: CLAUDE.md, README.md, entry points, relevant modules touched by the task
  • Bash/Glob/Grep: find related code, existing patterns, current architecture
  • Reasoning MCP (code-reasoning/*, if available): use extended thinking when the task involves non-obvious trade-offs, complex dependency chains, or ambiguous scope — e.g. "should this live in the service layer or the router?", "what migration strategy fits this schema?". Don't use it for simple lookups.
  • WebSearch: look up relevant library APIs, best practices, recent changes if the task involves third-party tooling
  • context7 / upstash MCP (if available): fetch up-to-date framework docs for any libraries involved (e.g. Reflex, FastAPI, SQLModel, Mantine)

Don't ask the user things you can find yourself. Memory and reasoning give you two advantages: memory surfaces what the user already decided so you don't ask again; reasoning helps you resolve ambiguity without guessing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 2d ago First seen · 86 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A ddc783e9f085

Subscribe to this mod's changes

boost is a skill published in the GitHub repository jenreh/appkit (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 1,078 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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