Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add oodaris/autocodex --skill core-ask-questions-if-underspecifiedgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oodaris/autocodexWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/oodaris/autocodex/core-ask-questions-if-underspecified)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oodaris/autocodex/core-ask-questions-if-underspecified"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oodaris/autocodex/core-ask-questions-if-underspecified/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oodaris/autocodex/core-ask-questions-if-underspecified"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oodaris/autocodex/core-ask-questions-if-underspecified.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00020 | $0.00398 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00199 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00080 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00040 |
Grade A, and why
core-ask-questions-if-underspecified 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 10d 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.
What it actually says
Ask Questions If Underspecified
Repo anchors (autocodex)
- CLI_PATH:
cmd/autocodex/ - INTERNAL_PATH:
internal/ - PLUGINS_PATH:
plugins/ - DOCS_PATH:
docs/ - SKILLS_PATH:
skills/ - UI_PATH:
web/ - TEST_COMMANDS
- Go:
go test ./... - Go vet:
go vet ./... - Go fmt:
gofmt -w $(rg --files -g '*.go')
- Go:
When to use
- A request is ambiguous or missing required inputs (schemas, env vars, sample payloads, constraints).
Preconditions
- You have the user’s request in the thread.
Inputs to confirm
- Required schemas or config samples
- Runtime constraints (CLI vs API vs UI)
- Success criteria and scope boundaries
Required artifacts
- A minimal list of questions
- A checklist of missing inputs
Quick path
- Identify missing inputs.
- Ask the minimum number of questions to proceed.
- Provide a clear checklist.
Steps
- Stop before coding.
- Ask 2–6 targeted questions.
- Provide a short checklist of missing inputs.
- State what you will do next once answered.
Failure modes and responses
- Too many questions: reduce to only what blocks progress.
- Vague questions: rewrite as concrete inputs.
Definition of done
- Missing inputs are explicitly listed and requested.
Example (minimal)
- Input: “Add a plugin system.”
- Questions: What transport? What capability schema? Which paths?
- Gotcha: Don’t implement before protocol is defined.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 58 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 5893d9d17e79
core-ask-questions-if-underspecified is a skill published in the GitHub repository oodaris/autocodex (16 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 398 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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