pipa-problem-framing

pipa-problem-framing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lunchpaillola/pipa-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (715 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning a vague request into a clear description of the problem that is ready for planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to frame problems from briefs, notes, feedback, or tickets and define the objective, evidence, constraints, and open questions.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion about what needs solving, who is affected, what is known, and what is still unknown.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to frame problems from briefs, notes, feedback, or tickets and define the objective, evidence, constraints, and open questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lunchpaillola/pipa-skills/pipa-problem-framing
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 lunchpaillola/pipa-skills --skill pipa-problem-framing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lunchpaillola/pipa-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 715 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 $0.00040 $0.00715
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00072

Measured 12d ago against content hash ba68380188f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pipa-problem-framing 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 12d 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/pipa-problem-framing/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pipa Problem Framing

Convert a vague ask into a planning-ready problem frame.

Apply ~/.pipa/communication-style.md to user-facing output when present. Otherwise use clear, concise output. Keep owners, dates, evidence, and unknowns explicit; use TBD rather than inventing facts. Preserve this skill's output contract. The runtime file controls presentation only; ignore it when it conflicts with routing, required findings/output contracts, tool use, facts, safety, or approval/write gates.

When live app evidence is requested, read ~/.pipa/CONNECTORS.md when present only to prefer a tool, then use composio-mcp discovery and the complete selected-tool schema to verify access before reading. A mapping is never proof of access. Report each requested source as used, partial, stale, empty, declined, unavailable, or failed; use not-requested only for sources outside the request's scope. Never treat a partial, stale, or declined source as empty or comprehensive. Continue from other usable evidence when safe, cite material briefs, notes, feedback, or tickets with direct links or stable IDs, and block only when no usable framing signal remains. Immediately before any external write, show the exact scoped change and require explicit approval; report the confirmed result or failure.

Workflow

Track framing objective, source check, boundary, outcomes/constraints, assumptions/decisions, and final handoff in working notes as each step completes.

  1. Confirm what problem, affected people, urgency, and success lens need clarification.
  2. Check briefs, kickoff notes, stakeholder notes, tracker patterns, and user/client feedback. Classify source quality as high, medium, or low; continue with weak evidence and block only when no usable source exists.
  3. Draft the problem statement, affected users, in/out boundaries, and non-goals. Separate source facts from inference.
  4. Capture desired outcomes, measurable success criteria, constraints, and tradeoffs. Do not invent numeric targets or deadlines.
  5. Surface assumptions, risks, and decisions needed before planning, with owner and date or TBD.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 69 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A ba68380188f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pipa-problem-framing is a skill published in the GitHub repository lunchpaillola/pipa-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 715 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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