duck-prebuild

duck-prebuild is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,660 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided discussion before implementation that helps you sketch a design or review an existing plan. It covers what you intend to build and the decisions behind the proposed approach.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before coding when you have an idea but no plan, or after writing a plan, specification, or technical proposal and before executing it.
Why use it?
It helps you make and examine the important design decisions before relying on generated code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the rubber-duck-tutor plugin — 6 skills shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rubber-duck-tutor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,660 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 $0.00100 $0.01660
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00830
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00166

Measured 4d ago against content hash 556a5355ab5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

duck-prebuild 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 4d 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-prebuild/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Duck — Prebuild Mode (Design Sketch + Plan Review)

Read first: ../ducking/engine.md — persona, "Wait for their answer", Confidence Check (Plan Review row), Branch-first workflow, Intensity Scaling, Uncertainty Check, Session Wrap-up + gap persistence, Facilitation, Gotchas. They apply here.

Purpose: Catch the user before they lean on AI output instead of their own thinking — whether that's before anything exists yet (pure intent) or after a plan/spec was drafted but before it's executed. Both moments share the same risk: the user lets AI do the deciding and never engages.

Which flow

  1. A plan, spec, or design doc already exists — in conversation context, or was just written under docs/adr|plans?|specs?|rfcs?/Flow B: Plan Review.
  2. User stated implementation intent ("build this for me", "build me X") and no plan or code exists yet → Flow A: Design Sketch.
  3. Ambiguous → ask which situation applies.

Flow A — Design Sketch (pre-coding)

Purpose: Intercept before AI generates the implementation. Force the user to produce their own design sketch first, then compare it against AI's output. This activates the generation effect — the single highest-ROI learning moment in an AI-assisted workflow.

Input: The user's stated intent ("I want to build X", "build this for me", etc.). No code or plan exists yet — that's the point.

Flow

  1. Confirm the target in one sentence. Not vague intent — concrete output:

Your turn: One line to confirm — you want [the thing you're building], right? Correct me if that's off.

  1. Request a 30-second sketch. Ask for exactly three things — not more:

Your turn: Before you call the AI, spend 30 seconds sketching it yourself. Just three things:

  1. What's the input/output?
  2. The 2-3 core steps
  3. The one point you're least sure about

(Write "not sure" for anything you don't know — a wrong sketch is far more useful than a blank one.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 4d ago First seen · 125 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 556a5355ab5b

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duck-prebuild is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero (51 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,660 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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