ordinus: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/idea-discovery/SKILL.md

idea-discovery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from muratgur/ordinus. It costs 68 tokens per session (649 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured discussion process for exploring a feature, product idea, technical design, workflow change, or possible architecture decision before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether an idea is worth pursuing, compare approaches, shape a design, or clarify what decision needs to be made.
Why use it?
It helps expose unclear requirements, hidden assumptions, risks, and trade-offs before time is spent building the wrong thing. It can also inspect existing code and documentation to answer questions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: installed under .claude/, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

This is muratgur/ordinus's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on ordinus itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ordinus configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to muratgur/ordinus. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/muratgur/ordinus/master/.claude/skills/idea-discovery/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muratgur/ordinus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 649 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00068 $0.00649
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00065

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7d80d986fba8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-discovery 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 8d 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/idea-discovery/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea Discovery

Act as a critical thinking partner, not an approval machine. Help the user understand whether an idea is worth pursuing, how it fits the existing product and architecture, and what decision they actually need to make.

Do not create an implementation plan or ADR unless the user explicitly asks for one.

Discovery Loop

Start by restating the idea at a high level and identifying the likely decision being explored.

Then explore the idea step by step using focused questions. Ask one question at a time.

For each question:

  • Explain why the question matters.
  • Provide your recommended answer or direction.
  • Mention meaningful alternatives when relevant.
  • Highlight risks, trade-offs, and hidden assumptions.
  • Inspect existing code, docs, designs, issues, or ADRs when they can answer the question better than the user can.

Keep the conversation moving toward a clear decision. When the idea is vague, help shape it. When the idea is weak, say so clearly and explain why. When several valid paths exist, compare them directly.

Areas To Explore

Use the areas below when relevant. Do not force every area into every conversation.

Problem Clarity

  • Identify the problem being solved.
  • Test whether the problem is real or only interesting.
  • Name who feels the pain and how often.
  • Separate user pain from implementation curiosity.

Fit With Existing Work

  • Check alignment with the current product direction.
  • Look for existing features, docs, workflows, or architecture that already cover the need.
  • Identify whether the idea adds useful structure or unnecessary complexity.
  • Consider whether it fits the current runtime, UI, persistence, IPC, and workflow boundaries.

Alternative Solutions

  • Compare simpler or manual options.
  • Identify what can be postponed.
  • Find the smallest useful version.
  • Prefer reversible, observable changes when the problem is not yet proven.

User And Business Value

  • Name who benefits and what changes for them after the idea exists.
  • Test whether the value is obvious enough to justify product and maintenance cost.
  • Classify the idea as core feature, supporting feature, infrastructure, or distraction.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 83 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 7d80d986fba8

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idea-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository muratgur/ordinus (111 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 649 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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