clarify

clarify is a skill for Codex from owainlewis/agent-skills. It costs 70 tokens per session (625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt-refinement skill that turns vague requests, rough plans, voice notes, or incomplete prompts into instructions another coding agent can follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify and stress-test agent tasks, especially requests involving code, data, security, compatibility, cost, or required proof.
Why use it?
It fills in missing context and safe defaults, while asking a focused question when an unresolved choice could materially change the result.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to clarify and stress-test agent tasks, especially requests involving code, data, security, compatibility, cost, or required proof.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owainlewis/agent-skills/clarify
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.

Any agent
npx skills add owainlewis/agent-skills --skill clarify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/owainlewis/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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 clarify

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/owainlewis/agent-skills/clarify.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/owainlewis/agent-skills/clarify)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/owainlewis/agent-skills/clarify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/owainlewis/agent-skills/clarify.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 625 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 $0.00070 $0.00625
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00063

Measured 8d ago against content hash 956be554cf38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clarify 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.

skills/clarify/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clarify

Turn a rough request into a prompt another agent can execute.

Choose a mode

  • Refine directly when the goal is clear and missing details have safe defaults.
  • Interview when one unresolved choice would materially change behaviour, data, security, compatibility, cost, output, or proof.
  • Execute the clarified prompt only when the user explicitly asks to run it or says "just do it."

Process

  1. Read the request and any referenced material.
  2. For repository work, inspect discoverable context such as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, README.md, the file tree, and relevant code before asking questions.
  3. Extract the goal, current state, inputs, outputs, constraints, scope boundaries, failure behaviour, and success checks.
  4. Resolve unambiguous references and project conventions from the available context.
  5. Use a sensible assumption when the user can change it later without reworking the task.
  6. Ask one question when no safe assumption exists. After the answer, check whether another important decision remains.
  7. Include all context needed to execute the prompt. Do not refer to "our discussion" or information outside the prompt.

Ask useful questions

Ask about decisions such as:

  • which input, file, directory, system, or audience is in scope
  • what output must exist, where it belongs, and whether it may overwrite anything
  • required behaviour for bad input, missing data, network failure, or partial success
  • tradeoffs that change product behaviour, security, compatibility, cost, or architecture
  • the observable result or check that proves completion

Do not ask about cosmetic choices, conventions the repository answers, details already supplied, or preferences with an obvious low-risk default.

Use this shape:

Question: <one decision>
Recommendation: <answer> because <short reason>.

Write the final prompt

Include only what changes execution:

  • goal
  • relevant context and current state
  • exact inputs and outputs
  • in-scope and out-of-scope work
  • constraints and safe assumptions
  • required failure behaviour
  • success criteria and verification

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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 · 71 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 956be554cf38

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clarify is a skill published in the GitHub repository owainlewis/agent-skills (44 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 625 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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