idea-clarifier

idea-clarifier is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from knack-run/knack-starter-pack. It costs 123 tokens per session (2,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An idea-shaping assistant that turns a rough project thought into a defined audience, a specific problem, an offer, and a ranked first-action plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you are considering a product, service, or launch but have not yet clearly identified the audience, pain point, or immediate next steps.
Why use it?
It replaces vague brainstorming with a clearer statement of who the idea serves, what problem it solves, and what to do next.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when you are considering a product, service, or launch but have not yet clearly identified the audience, pain point, or immediate next steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/knack-run/knack-starter-pack/idea-clarifier
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 knack-run/knack-starter-pack --skill idea-clarifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/knack-run/knack-starter-pack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,054 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 $0.00123 $0.02054
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01027
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00411
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00205

Measured 8d ago against content hash bef23bfd8140, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-clarifier 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 8d 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/idea-clarifier/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea Clarifier

Most idea-shaping conversations leave the user with a longer version of the same fog they walked in with. They produce vague audiences ("founders", "marketers"), pain points that are really categories ("inefficient workflows", "no time"), and next steps that read like a generic startup playbook ("build an MVP, talk to users, iterate"). This skill writes the opposite of that: a four-section artefact that names a specific audience, a pain in their language, an offer the user could put in front of them this week, and three to five ranked next actions. Five minutes of work. Usable.

When to use

  • "I have an idea for a tool that helps consultants automate their proposals, what do I do with it?"
  • "Help me think through this brief I've been kicking around for a Gmail extension."
  • "I'm thinking about a newsletter for fractional COOs but I'm stuck on what to lead with."
  • "I want to launch something this quarter but I don't know what."

Don't use this skill once the audience and pain are already clear and the user just wants execution help. Use it when the user is still in fog: an idea exists, but they can't yet name who it's for in one sentence and what's broken in their words.

Inputs the skill demands (in one round-trip, not four)

Ask the user for all of these in a single grouped question. If any are missing or vague, push back and ask again. Don't draft the four sections until every slot has a specific answer.

  1. The idea, in your own words: one paragraph, raw. Don't tidy it up first; the messiness contains signal.
  2. Who you think it's for, loosely: a job title, a situation, or a community. "Solo consultants who hate writing proposals" is fine; "small businesses" is not.
  3. What you've heard them complain about, in their words: quote a real conversation, a Reddit thread, a Slack message, a tweet. If you have nothing, say so honestly; the skill will route you to a different first action.
  4. One specific constraint: a budget cap, a deadline, a hard "I will not do X" (e.g. "no cold DMs", "no paid ads"). Be honest; the plan has to fit your real life.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 8d ago First seen · 98 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A bef23bfd8140

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idea-clarifier is a skill published in the GitHub repository knack-run/knack-starter-pack (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 2,054 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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