wait-what

wait-what is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. It costs 72 tokens per session (564 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A communication repair guide for moments when an explanation was unclear or did not reach its reader.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rewrite a message so the reader can understand the point and next step.
Why use it?
It helps replace confusing wording with shorter sentences, missing context, and the project's own technical terms.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the discipline plugin — 16 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/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/wait-what
Any agent
npx skills add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins --skill wait-what
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install discipline, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 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 wait-what

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/wait-what"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/wait-what.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 564 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 $0.00072 $0.00564
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00056

Measured yesterday against content hash 5eb1e1be5810, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wait-what 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 yesterday.

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/discipline/skills/wait-what/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Wait. What?

Wait. I don't understand where you've got to here. Re-pitch that: back up as far as needed, give me the context I was missing, talk in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (short sentences, one meaning per word, technical terms exact), and use the project's ubiquitous language. Read the nearest domain glossary or context map, per the project's own convention, when one exists; with none, plain technical English alone.

A declared species in this plugin: NOT a corrector

Every sibling corrector re-anchors a standing discipline through the re-anchor/audit/correct loop. This skill is a one-shot, user-fired communication repair: the human, the only party who can detect that a message did not land, fires it, and the re-pitch IS the repair. It deliberately stays this small: a skill that fights unclear output fails by growing, because the model reads the volume, not the plea. Nearest siblings, for routing: /discipline:tighten-your-output when the problem is too many words, and /discipline:mind-your-maxims when the standing cooperative-communication discipline itself needs re-anchoring; this skill repairs the one message that lost its reader.

Boundaries

  • Never model-invoked. disable-model-invocation: true is load-bearing: the model cannot detect that its reader stopped following, so an auto-fired re-pitch would be incoherent.
  • Re-pitch means re-ground, not compress. Full technical precision stays; the premise the reader was missing comes back. A re-pitch that is shorter and blunter, but no clearer, is the failure this skill exists to avoid.
  • No glossary is a no-op, not an error. The vocabulary half degrades silently; the register and missing-context halves always apply.
  • Excluded from batch sweeps. No discipline-batch tier on purpose: a sweep must never fire a repair only the human can call for.
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 44 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 5eb1e1be5810

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wait-what is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 564 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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