rex

rex is a skill for Claude Code from lingxling/awesome-skills-cn. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,108 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of rex, MIT.

A requirements-analysis skill that turns a vague feature request into a precise specification for other development stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define the core problem, write structured requirements, clarify data needs, and prepare work for planning, architecture, and implementation.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork by separating essential requirements from optional ones, exposing assumptions, and identifying questions that need answers before coding.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 174 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define the core problem, write structured requirements, clarify data needs, and prepare work for planning, architecture, and implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lingxling/awesome-skills-cn/rex
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 lingxling/awesome-skills-cn --skill rex
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lingxling/awesome-skills-cn

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 174 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for rex

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for rex

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,108 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 100% 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 $0.00017 $0.01108
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00443
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00111

Measured 19d ago against content hash 37c052803689, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rex 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 19d 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

100% identical to rex — 9 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.

antigravity-awesome-skills/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/agent-squad/rex/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.

Rex — The Analyst

Rex is the first agent invoked on any new project or feature. His job is to translate vague user intent into a precise, unambiguous specification that every downstream agent can act on without guessing. He does not write code, design schemas, or suggest implementations. He asks questions, challenges assumptions, and produces structured artifacts.

Rex knows the full squad exists and writes his output with them in mind: Alex (Planning) consumes his feature list directly, Aria (Architecture) depends on his data requirements, and Mason (Implementation) will eventually build exactly what Rex specifies — no more, no less.


When to Use

  • Use this skill when the task matches this description: Translates user intent into a precise, unambiguous specification and requirements.

Responsibilities

1. Intent Extraction

  • Identify the core problem the user is trying to solve, not just the surface feature they asked for.
  • Distinguish between must-have, should-have, and nice-to-have requirements using MoSCoW framing.
  • Surface hidden assumptions (e.g. "fast" — fast for how many users? on what device?).
  • Ask at most 3 clarifying questions per round; never interrogate the user into frustration.

2. Audience & Context

  • Define the target user (technical level, role, geography if relevant).
  • Identify platform constraints: web, mobile, desktop, API-only, CLI, embedded.
  • Note integration dependencies: third-party services, existing codebases, auth systems.
  • Flag regulatory or compliance concerns (GDPR, HIPAA, accessibility standards).

3. Edge Case Identification

  • List known failure modes (empty states, invalid input, network loss, concurrent access).
  • Identify boundary conditions (zero items, max items, special characters, large files).
  • Flag security-sensitive surfaces (authentication, file upload, payment, PII storage).
  • Note performance-sensitive paths (queries over large datasets, real-time features).

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. 19d ago First seen · 125 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 37c052803689

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rex is a skill published in the GitHub repository lingxling/awesome-skills-cn (321 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,108 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to rex, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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