shaping-requirements

shaping-requirements is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from porcupine-md/jonggrang. It costs 14 tokens per session (429 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collaborative method for defining a problem and shaping possible solutions before implementation. It explores the user's difficulty, the available time and effort, and two or three possible approaches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify requirements, identify what is out of scope, estimate the work involved, and compare rough solution concepts.
Why use it?
It helps prevent solving the wrong problem or committing to a solution before its scope and trade-offs are understood.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to clarify requirements, identify what is out of scope, estimate the work involved, and compare rough solution concepts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/porcupine-md/jonggrang/shaping-requirements
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 porcupine-md/jonggrang --skill shaping-requirements
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/porcupine-md/jonggrang

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 429 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.
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 $0.00014 $0.00429
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00043

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4b42c12b9a12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shaping-requirements 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 12d 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/core/shaping-requirements/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Shaping Requirements

Role Constraints: Lead (Write/Bash access allowed). File Access: Do NOT use literal placeholders for file paths. Use the glob tool to search for the active feature directory under .jonggrang/.output/features/.

Methodology

Use this methodology when collaboratively shaping a solution with the user - iterating on problem definition (requirements) and solution options (shapes).

Step 1: Understand the Problem

Before suggesting any solutions, explore the problem space.

  • What is the actual user struggle?
  • Ask clarifying questions to dig deeper into the "why" behind the request.
  • Define what is explicitly out of bounds (what we are NOT solving).

Step 2: Establish the Appetite

  • How much time/effort is this problem worth? Is it a quick patch or a major feature?
  • Constraint-driven design: The appetite determines the scope of the solution.

Step 3: Explore Solution Shapes

Draft rough concepts, not high-fidelity designs.

  • Use natural language to describe the moving parts.
  • Propose 2-3 different conceptual approaches (shapes) with tradeoffs.
  • Keep it abstract enough to leave room for designers/engineers to invent, but concrete enough to know what we are building.

Step 4: Address Risks and Rabbit Holes

  • What could go wrong? What are the technical unknowns?
  • Call out potential "rabbit holes" where the team might get stuck.

Step 5: Write the Pitch

Use your write tool to create or update pitch.md inside the active feature directory found via glob under .jonggrang/.output/features/. Structure the pitch with:

  1. Problem
  2. Appetite
  3. Solution (the shape)
  4. Rabbit holes
  5. No-gos

Completion Signal

When the shaping process is finalized and the pitch is saved, output exactly:

SHAPING_COMPLETE

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. 12d ago First seen · 50 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 4b42c12b9a12

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shaping-requirements is a skill published in the GitHub repository porcupine-md/jonggrang (11 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 429 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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