clarify

clarify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pandysp/claude-plugins. It costs 112 tokens per session (625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill for finding and resolving important unanswered questions before proposing a design. It focuses on boundaries, unusual cases, trade-offs, integrations, constraints, and the intended audience.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing a design discussion by identifying what is still undecided about scope, behavior, priorities, surrounding systems, or users.
Why use it?
It prevents a design from being locked around hidden assumptions. It asks only questions that would materially change the proposed options.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the clarify plugin — 1 skill 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/pandysp/claude-plugins/clarify
Any agent
npx skills add pandysp/claude-plugins --skill clarify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pandysp/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install clarify, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 112 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. 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 $0.00112 $0.00625
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00063

Measured 4d ago against content hash e25c4e68b756, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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/clarify/skills/clarify/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clarify: exhaust questions before designing

Before proposing design options, surface the synthesis questions: places where the task and terrain leave something genuinely undecided. Locking a design around a hidden assumption is more expensive than asking up front.

Dimensions to cover

Skip dimensions that don't matter here. For each, ask only what's genuinely unclear:

  • Scope & boundaries: what's in, out, deferred.
  • Edge & extreme behavior: what happens at unusual conditions.
  • Trade-offs & calibration: where on the spectrum to land.
  • Integration with surroundings: what must this fit alongside or interact with.
  • Hard constraints: what would create downstream problems if violated (compliance, deadlines, budget).
  • Audience specifics: what does the actual consumer of this need.

What to surface

Ask only what's genuinely unclear AND would change the design. Skip what task + terrain already answer, and what wouldn't change the proposed options. Group related questions. If a dimension has no open question, say so. Shows you considered it.

Format

Each question gets specific phrasing: not "any thoughts on edge cases?" but a concrete, scoped question with named alternatives, plus a default when applicable.

### Scope & boundaries
- [Specific question with named alternatives]? My read: [recommendation].

### Edge & extreme behavior
- [Edge case condition] — [option A] *(default)* or [option B]?

### Hard constraints
- No open questions — [brief reason].

When the user defers

If the user says "whatever you think is best" or similar: provide a specific recommendation per question, get explicit confirmation. Don't silently absorb. That's the "I assumed you wanted X" failure mode.

After clarification

Briefly recap the resolved decisions: "Confirmed: [decision 1], [decision 2]." Then proceed to design.

Common pitfalls

  • Asking what task + terrain already answer. If the answer is implicit, commit instead of asking.
  • Leaving the user to do synthesis. Specific questions with defaults, not "any thoughts on X?"
  • Ignoring user delegation. "Whatever you think" requires recommendation + confirmation, not silent picking.
  • Treating it as task interpretation. This is post-task-understanding and post-terrain synthesis, not a substitute for either.
  • Mechanical run-through. Skip dimensions that don't matter here.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. 4d ago First seen · 55 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A e25c4e68b756

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clarify is a skill published in the GitHub repository pandysp/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 625 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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