elicit

elicit is a skill for Claude Code from juxt/allium. It costs 66 tokens per session (5,007 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided conversation for discovering and writing an Allium specification, a description of what software should do without prescribing its implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for defining a new feature or system, gathering domain requirements, and documenting what existing software is expected to do.
Why use it?
It helps uncover unclear requirements, boundaries, and exclusions before they become code or tests. The session records the agreed behaviour in a structured form.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the allium plugin — 7 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for defining a new feature or system, gathering domain requirements, and documenting what existing software is expected to do.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/juxt/allium/elicit
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 juxt/allium --skill elicit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juxt/allium

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install allium, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,007 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
  • Socket pass 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Sept 2026
  • 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 $0.00066 $0.05007
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.02003
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.01001
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00501

Measured 19d ago against content hash cdafcd7f0360, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elicit 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 19d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • elicit — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
skills/elicit/SKILL.md · 396 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 396 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Elicitation

This skill guides you through building Allium specifications by conversation. The goal is to surface ambiguities and produce a specification that captures what the software does without prescribing implementation.

Scoping the specification

Before diving into details, establish what you are specifying. Not everything needs to be in one spec.

Questions to ask first

"What's the boundary of this specification?" A complete system? A single feature area? One service in a larger system? Be explicit about what is in and out of scope.

"Are there areas we should deliberately exclude?" Third-party integrations might be library specs. Legacy features might not be worth specifying. Some features might belong in separate specs.

"Is this a new system or does code already exist?" If code exists, you are doing distillation with elicitation. Existing code constrains what is realistic to specify.

Documenting scope decisions

Capture scope at the start of every spec:

-- allium: 3
-- interview-scheduling.allium

-- Scope: Interview scheduling for the hiring pipeline
-- Includes: Candidacy, Interview, Slot management, Invitations, Feedback
-- Excludes:
--   - Authentication (use oauth library spec)
--   - Payments (not applicable)
--   - Reporting dashboards (separate spec)
-- Dependencies: User entity defined in core.allium

The version marker (-- allium: N) must be the first line of every .allium file. Use the current language version number.

Finding the right level of abstraction

Too concrete and you are specifying implementation. Too abstract and you are not saying anything useful.

The "Why" test

For every detail, ask: "Why does the stakeholder care about this?"

Detail Why? Include?
"Users log in with Google OAuth" They need to authenticate Maybe not, "Users authenticate" might be sufficient
"We support Google and Microsoft OAuth" Users choose their provider Yes, the choice is domain-level
"Sessions expire after 24 hours" Security/UX decision Yes, affects user experience
"Sessions are stored in Redis" Performance No, implementation detail
"Passwords must be 12+ characters" Security policy Yes, affects users
"Passwords are hashed with bcrypt" Security implementation No, how not what

Read the full file on GitHub · 396 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. 19d ago Changed · +27 lines cdafcd7f0360
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 369 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 51f8d11b7457

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elicit is a skill published in the GitHub repository juxt/allium (513 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 5,007 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.