explain-and-justify-the-need

explain-and-justify-the-need is a skill for Codex from kingdomseed/structured-workflow. It costs 36 tokens per session (397 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A planning aid for clarifying why work is needed, who or what it affects, and what it should cover.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a problem, identify affected people or systems, and revisit the reason for doing the work.
Why use it?
It helps when the purpose, scope, or value of a task is unclear or needs checking again.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to define a problem, identify affected people or systems, and revisit the reason for doing the work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kingdomseed/structured-workflow/explain-and-justify-the-need
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 kingdomseed/structured-workflow --skill explain-and-justify-the-need
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kingdomseed/structured-workflow

Made for: Codex.

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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 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 397 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 unknown 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 $0.00036 $0.00397
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 9d ago against content hash a5bf161d0f4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-and-justify-the-need 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 9d 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/inquiry-analysis/explain-and-justify-the-need/SKILL.md · 39 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 9d ago First seen · 39 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A a5bf161d0f4f

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explain-and-justify-the-need is a skill published in the GitHub repository kingdomseed/structured-workflow (12 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 397 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.