anchor-intake

anchor-intake is a skill for Claude Code from lynxlangya/techne. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,262 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-work review for a written engineering brief, such as a ticket, product requirements document, or design note. It checks whether the brief defines the goal, users, scope, dependencies, constraints, and acceptance method before planning begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Interrogating substantial implementation briefs and identifying gaps that need answers before a coding plan is made.
Why use it?
Engineering briefs often leave important assumptions unstated. This review exposes missing or weak requirements before implementation work starts.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the techne plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Interrogating substantial implementation briefs and identifying gaps that need answers before a coding plan is made.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lynxlangya/techne/anchor-intake
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 lynxlangya/techne --skill anchor-intake
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lynxlangya/techne

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install techne, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,262 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 $0.00105 $0.01262
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00631
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00126

Measured 7d ago against content hash e9722661b80d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anchor-intake 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/intake_gate.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/anchor-intake/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

anchor-intake

Force the skipped move before execution: interrogate the written brief against a fixed engineering implementation rubric, then plan only after gaps and weak assumptions are visible.

Trigger Check

Use this skill when the user provides a substantial written engineering implementation brief: a ticket, PRD, design note, or task brief with enough text to interrogate before work starts.

Do not use it for a bare one-line request, an already precise command, a marketing brief, research proposal, prose draft, code diff review, bug fix, or implementation execution. For unsupported or too-thin artifacts, self-eject in one sentence and write no .techne/plan/<slug> output. If a captured artifact later proves unsupported, use finalize --unscopable --reason ....

Boundary test: can you point to a user-authored written artifact and ask whether it names the engineering goal, users, measurable success threshold, scope, non-goals, inputs, data sources, dependencies, constraints, and acceptance method? If yes, use anchor-intake. If no, eject or ask for the brief first.

Forced Procedure

  1. Capture the brief. Save the user-authored artifact verbatim. Run: python3 skills/anchor-intake/scripts/intake_gate.py init --project <root> --plan <slug> --brief-file <path>.
  2. Read the brief in full. Do not fill the rubric from memory or from the user's surrounding chat if the value is not in the captured brief.
  3. Account every fixed rubric element. For each of the ten elements, write one disposition in .techne/plan/<slug>/intake.json: present with citation and valueItems, present-weak with citation and a dependent question, or gap with a question or visible modelDefault.
  4. Surface traps and conflicts. Add span-anchored solution-as-goal and contradiction findings whenever the brief implies them. Contradictions need two verified spans.
  5. Ask only dependent questions. Every question must resolve an element or finding and carry a planDelta. Weak/gap questions must reference the weak span/value or the missing element label.
  6. Author intent-level steps. Steps are not execution yet. Each step needs an id, dependsOnAssumptions, dependsOnSteps, verifiableOutcome, and at least one terminal step reachable from a root step.
  7. Check and repair. Run: python3 skills/anchor-intake/scripts/intake_gate.py check --project <root> --plan <slug>. Fix structural failures by doing the missing intake work, not by padding JSON.
  8. Finalize. Run: python3 skills/anchor-intake/scripts/intake_gate.py finalize --project <root> --plan <slug>. Relay the generated intakeReport.json to the user, especially gaps, weak elements, questions, solution-as-goal findings, contradictions, and warnings.

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 123 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A e9722661b80d

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anchor-intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository lynxlangya/techne (105 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,262 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.