epic-scoping

epic-scoping is a skill for Claude Code from marcusgoll/Spec-Flow. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,079 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for defining the scope of a large development project, called an epic, through structured questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify an epic's business goal and select its affected subsystems before creating a plan.
Why use it?
It reduces ambiguity before planning begins, so the team agrees on goals and which parts of the system are involved.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to clarify an epic's business goal and select its affected subsystems before creating a plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marcusgoll/spec-flow/epic-scoping
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add marcusgoll/Spec-Flow --skill epic-scoping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcusgoll/Spec-Flow

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,079 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

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Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00432
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00108

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3b0ba07ca134, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

epic-scoping 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/epic-scoping/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Epic Scoping Skill

Interactive question bank-driven scoping for epic workflows.

Purpose

Systematically scope epics with structured AskUserQuestion calls, eliminating ambiguity before planning. Uses centralized question bank to ensure consistent, comprehensive scoping.

When to Invoke

  • Always for new epics (via /epic command)
  • Skip if resuming with /epic continue

Quick Start

# Load question bank
cat .claude/skills/epic/references/question-bank.md

5-Round Interactive Scoping

Round 1: Initial Scoping (2 questions)

Questions from bank:

  • initial_scoping.business_goal
  • initial_scoping.subsystem_selection
AskUserQuestion({
  questions: [
    questionBank.initial_scoping.business_goal,
    questionBank.initial_scoping.subsystem_selection,
  ],
});

Apply answers to epic-spec.md:

  • business_goal → ## Objective > ### Business Value
  • subsystem_selection → ## Subsystems (update Involved field)

Round 2: Scope Refinement (0-4 questions, conditional)

Based on subsystem_selection, ask relevant follow-ups:

const refinementQuestions = [];

if (selectedSubsystems.includes("Backend API")) {
  refinementQuestions.push(questionBank.scope_refinement.backend_scope);
}
if (selectedSubsystems.includes("Frontend UI")) {
  refinementQuestions.push(questionBank.scope_refinement.frontend_scope);
}
if (selectedSubsystems.includes("Database")) {
  refinementQuestions.push(questionBank.scope_refinement.database_scope);
}
if (selectedSubsystems.includes("External integrations")) {
  refinementQuestions.push(questionBank.scope_refinement.integration_scope);
}

if (refinementQuestions.length > 0) {
  AskUserQuestion({ questions: refinementQuestions });
}

Apply answers:

  • backend_scope → ### Backend section
  • frontend_scope → ### Frontend section
  • database_scope → ### Database section
  • integration_scope → ### Infrastructure section

Round 3: Success Metrics (2 questions)

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. 1mo ago First seen · 181 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3b0ba07ca134

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epic-scoping is a skill published in the GitHub repository marcusgoll/Spec-Flow (96 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,079 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.