scope

scope is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kazdenc/builder-skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,278 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scope-cutting process for defining the smallest useful version of a project. It separates essential work from nice-to-have and out-of-scope work based on whether the core job can still be completed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a feature list or product plan into MVP requirements, lower-priority items, and exclusions. It is intended for situations with a fixed timeline or limited capacity.
Why use it?
It helps teams reduce an overloaded plan and focus limited time on a complete, shippable result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kazdenc/builder-skills/scope
Any agent
npx skills add kazdenc/builder-skills --skill scope
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kazdenc/builder-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,278 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 $0.00074 $0.01278
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00639
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00128

Measured 4d ago against content hash 84db710c5410, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scope 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 4d 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/product/prioritize/scope/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cut scope to ship something meaningful within constraints. Favor a complete small thing over an incomplete big thing.

Step 1: List All Requirements

Collect every feature, requirement, and "wouldn't it be nice if" into a flat list. If the user provided a PRD or feature set, extract items from it. If not, ask.

Each item should be a concrete, shippable unit — not a theme. Break down anything vague ("improve onboarding") into specific deliverables ("add welcome wizard", "send day-1 email", "add progress indicator").

Step 2: Apply the Core Job Test

For each item, ask: "If we shipped without this, would the core job still get done?"

  • Yes → Nice-to-have. Move it down.
  • No → Must-have candidate. Keep it.

Be honest. "Get done" means the user can complete the primary task, even if it's manual, ugly, or slow. A to-do app without drag-and-drop reordering still lets people track tasks. A to-do app without the ability to add tasks does not.

Step 3: Categorize into Tiers

Sort every item into one of four tiers:

Tier Label Criteria Ships in
T0 Must Ship (MVP) Without this, the product doesn't work or the core job can't be completed Current timeline
T1 Should Ship Makes the experience significantly better but isn't blocking the core job v1.1 / next cycle
T2 Could Ship Genuine value, but the product is viable and useful without it Future
T3 Won't Ship Out of scope, wrong timing, low value, or conflicts with focus Never (for now)

Present the result as a table:

| Tier | Item | Rationale |
|------|------|-----------|
| T0   | ...  | Core job requires it: [why] |
| T1   | ...  | Improves [what], but core flow works without it |
| T2   | ...  | Nice for [who], revisit after launch |
| T3   | ...  | Out of scope because [reason] |

Step 4: Validate the MVP

Check that the T0 set is coherent:

  • Does it complete one whole job? Users should be able to go from start to done, even if the path is rough. Partial flows are worse than missing features.
  • Is it scoped to one persona? Serving one user well beats serving three users poorly. If T0 tries to cover multiple personas, pick the most important one and move the rest to T1.
  • Can it ship within the timeline? If T0 alone exceeds the timeline, cut further. Ask: "Which of these must-haves is the most must-have?"
  • Is there a simpler version of any T0 item? "Full search with filters" might become "basic text search." "Role-based permissions" might become "admin/member only." Reduce the scope within must-haves, not just between them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 4d ago First seen · 96 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 84db710c5410

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scope is a skill published in the GitHub repository kazdenc/builder-skills (44 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,278 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 2026-08-30.

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