duck

A coding tutor that uses a rubber-duck conversation to help you think through your work. It chooses a mode for planning, checking recent edits, reviewing changes, or getting oriented in an unfamiliar codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to sketch a design before coding, explain and verify recent changes, review uncommitted changes before a commit or pull request, or learn how a repository is organised.
Why use it?
It helps you catch gaps in your understanding before or after coding, instead of accepting generated code without checking it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leejuoh/claude-code-zero/duck
Any agent
npx skills add LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero --skill duck
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 797 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 $0.00797
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00080

Measured 2d ago against content hash 81616ce09dea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

duck 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.

plugins/rubber-duck-tutor/skills/duck/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Duck (auto-detect)

Auto-detects which mode fits the user's current state and routes to the matching mode skill. Read ../ducking/engine.md for shared persona, principles, and session-management rules — they apply to every mode.

Mode Map

Trigger phrase / state Mode skill
"build this for me" / stated implementation intent, no plan or code yet /duck-prebuild
Active plan in conversation (or .claude/orientation.md-adjacent design doc) /duck-prebuild
Files recently created/modified in this session /duck-verify
Uncommitted changes (git diff --stat non-empty) /duck-review
User new to the repo, returning after long break, "where should I even start" /duck-orient
None of the above Ask the user which phase they want

Detection Order

Check in this order — first match wins:

  1. Pre-coding intent — user just stated they want to build X but no plan/diff/code exists yet → /duck-prebuild
  2. Plan in context — a plan or design doc was produced in this session → /duck-prebuild
  3. Uncommitted changesgit diff --stat shows a real diff → /duck-review
  4. Recent in-session edits — files were created or modified earlier in this session but not yet committed → /duck-verify
  5. Orientation gap — user appears unfamiliar with the repo → /duck-orient
  6. Ambiguous — ask the user which phase they want before continuing

Behavior When the User Picks Their Own Mode

If the user named a mode (prebuild, verify, review, orient — or the older design/plan words, both alias to prebuild), suggest the matching /duck-<mode> command and stop — don't run the mode flow inline. The dedicated mode skill carries the full instructions for that flow.

If the user passed $ARGUMENTS and it matches a known mode word, hand off to /duck-<mode> (map design/planprebuild; otherwise use $ARGUMENTS as-is):

"🦆 Quack — you want /duck-<mode>. Call it directly instead."

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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 · 51 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 81616ce09dea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

duck is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero (51 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 797 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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