office-hours

office-hours is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mtthsnc/tempest. It costs 77 tokens per session (873 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A question-led process for examining a vague idea or feature request before planning or designing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce a sharpened problem statement that can be handed to a planning workflow.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish the real problem from the requested solution and makes success criteria and scope boundaries explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the tempest plugin — 8 skills, 9 commands 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/mtthsnc/tempest/office-hours
Any agent
npx skills add mtthsnc/tempest --skill office-hours
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mtthsnc/tempest

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install tempest, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 9 commands.

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 office-hours

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 873 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 $0.00077 $0.00873
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00436
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00087

Measured 5d ago against content hash 35039b9a5699, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

office-hours 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 5d 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.

plugins/tempest/skills/office-hours/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

office-hours — reframe a raw idea before you plan it

Overview

The front door of the factory. A request arrives as a sentence; your job is to turn it into a problem worth solving before anyone draws a plan. You interrogate the idea — not the person — until the real problem, the real definition of success, and the real boundaries are on the table.

This is a STARTER skill — a generic spine. Rewrite the forcing questions below to encode your own product instincts, the questions your team always forgets to ask, and your bar for "ready to plan."

The output is a tightened problem statement, not a solution. You do not design or plan here; you hand a sharpened brief to the plan workflow.

Procedure

1. Take the request, don't take it at face value

  • Restate the raw idea in one sentence, in your own words. Read it back to the user.
  • Treat it as a symptom, not a spec. The stated request is rarely the actual problem.

2. Run the forcing questions

Ask these one cluster at a time; do not let a vague answer slide. (Adapt to taste.)

  • Real problem & owner — What's the actual problem here, and whose problem is it? Who feels the pain, and what do they do today instead?
  • Success, concretely — What does success look like in observable terms? How will we know it worked — a metric, a behavior, a moment?
  • Smallest valuable version — What's the thinnest slice that delivers real value? What could ship first and still matter?
  • Explicit non-goals — What are we deliberately not doing? Name the tempting things we're cutting.
  • The thing that kills it — What's the single biggest risk or assumption? What, if untrue, makes this pointless?
  • Why now — Why is this worth doing now rather than later, or never?

3. Sharpen into a problem statement

Write a short brief with:

  • Problem — the real problem and whose it is, in plain language.
  • Success — what observably true thing means we won.
  • Smallest version — the thinnest valuable slice to build first.
  • Out of scope — explicit non-goals and boundaries.
  • Riskiest assumption — the one thing most likely to sink this, named out loud.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 5d ago First seen · 65 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 35039b9a5699

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office-hours is a skill published in the GitHub repository mtthsnc/tempest (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 873 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 2026-08-31.

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