clarify

clarify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (907 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision aid that weighs whether to ask for more information or answer with the details already available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of tasks to identify missing information and decide whether clarification is worth the delay.
Why use it?
It helps avoid needless questions while reducing the rework caused by answering an unclear request too soon.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it at the start of tasks to identify missing information and decide whether clarification is worth the delay.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills/ds-clarify
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 Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills --skill ds-clarify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 907 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 $0.00026 $0.00907
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00453
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00091

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1ef8c1052619, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clarify 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 11d 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/ds-clarify/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLARIFY — Ask/Answer Decision Engine

Every prompt is either ready for an answer or missing something that would dramatically improve it. You must decide: ask now, or answer now and refine later?

The wrong choice costs:

  • Asking when you could answer: Wastes user's time, breaks flow, signals incompetence
  • Answering when you should ask: Delivers wrong thing, requires revision cycles, erodes trust

This skill decides.


The Failure Mode You Must Recognize

You are about to either:

  • Ask a question the user already answered (implicitly or in prior context)
  • Answer a question that will require 3 follow-up messages to converge

Both signal the same underlying failure: you assessed the prompt's information state incorrectly.


The Protocol

1 — ASSESS INTENT READINESS

Write your assessment of the incoming prompt:

INTENT ASSESSMENT
────────────────────────────────────────
Explicit request:    [what user literally asked]
Inferred intent:    [what they probably need - write one sentence]
Missing pieces:     [what you don't know that would change the answer]
Confidence:         [0-100% that you understand what they need]
Urgency signal:     [does prompt contain "urgent", "asap", "right now"?]
Prior context:      [relevant conversation history - yes/no]
────────────────────────────────────────

Artifact: Intent assessment. Step 2 uses this to score question value.

2 — SCORE QUESTION VALUE

For each potential question, calculate its value:

QUESTION VALUE SCREENING
────────────────────────────────────────
Question: [write the question]
  If I knew the answer, how much would my response change?
    - Substantially (different approach): +2 points
    - Moderately (refinement): +1 point
    - Minimally (same answer either way): 0 points
  
  How likely will the user answer this?
    - High (obvious gap): +1 point
    - Medium (reasonable to ask): 0 points
    - Low (intrusive): -1 point

  What is the delay cost?
    - Low (quick answer): +1 point
    - Medium (some back-and-forth): 0 points
    - High (derails conversation): -1 points

  TOTAL: [sum] → [ASK / ANSWER / ANSWER-THEN-REFINE]
────────────────────────────────────────

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 11d ago First seen · 112 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 1ef8c1052619

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clarify is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 907 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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