figure-it-out

figure-it-out is a skill for Claude Code from koolamusic/claudefiles. It costs 63 tokens per session (867 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of figure-it-out, MIT.

A planning playbook for designing a traceable workflow when no existing procedure fits a large or unusual change. It breaks the work into stages, tests assumptions, and keeps a record of decisions for later review.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning migrations, ambitious changes, and work that someone else must review later, especially when the safest approach is not obvious.
Why use it?
Large migrations and multi-part changes can lose their goals, scope, or reasoning as work progresses. This gives the task a defined completion test and checkpoints before implementation grows.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the pstack plugin — 50 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for planning migrations, ambitious changes, and work that someone else must review later, especially when the safest approach is not obvious.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/koolamusic/claudefiles/figure-it-out
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 koolamusic/claudefiles --skill figure-it-out
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/koolamusic/claudefiles

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills, 2 agents.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 867 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 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00063 $0.00867
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00347
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00087

Measured 2d ago against content hash d9574cc24929, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figure-it-out 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to figure-it-out — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/pstack/skills/figure-it-out/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Figure it out

When the task matches no playbook, design one. The deliverable before any code is the workflow itself: a sequence of phases that scales rigor to the task, runs the scientific method, and leaves a decision trail a human can audit after stepping away.

Start

Open a todolist whose first item is to read the Principles section of the poteto-mode skill. Then add the phases below as todos.

Phase A: Frame

Ground first, then commit. Don't start the run until you can state:

  • The definition of done as a falsifiable predicate (the prove-it-works principle skill).
  • Scope, quantified: rough units and effort, plus the blockers grounding surfaced.
  • The rigor level, biased high. One-way doors and high blast radius get more. Reversible low-stakes steps get less. Rigor is gates and artifacts, not "try harder".

Present the framing and tradeoffs before committing to a long run. Reversible work proceeds (the never-block-on-the-human principle skill), but a multi-hour run earns one checkpoint.

Phase B: Design the workflow

Decompose into atomic, independently-landable units. Sequence riskiest-unknown-first. Scaffold and verification come before features (the foundational-thinking principle skill).

  • Build the verification harness before the work, with the baseline captured from the pre-change state, so the check reads as "old value vs new value".
  • For one-way-door design decisions, run the architect skill (it runs arena). Skip it for mechanical work whose shape is already concrete. A second arena over a settled design is over-engineering (the laziness-protocol principle skill).
  • Decide what fans out. Parallelize only across seams, and give each worker its own worktree or branch (the separate-before-serializing-shared-state principle skill). Don't over-fan.
  • Write the designed phase list down. That list is what the human reviews.

Then execute the design. Add its steps to the todolist as concrete items between the Phase C and Phase D entries. Run each under the Phase C loop discipline, and weave the Phase D log through them, a row as each step lands, rather than saving the whole trail for the end.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 2d ago First seen · 53 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A d9574cc24929

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figure-it-out is a skill published in the GitHub repository koolamusic/claudefiles (130 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 867 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to figure-it-out, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.