clarify

clarify is a skill for Claude Code from ramboz/jig. It costs 153 tokens per session (4,448 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured scan for unclear or incomplete parts of a project specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check scope, acceptance criteria, dependencies, non-functional requirements, edge cases, and terminology, then add prioritized questions to the specification.
Why use it?
It finds ambiguities before implementation or review, reducing the risk that developers interpret requirements differently.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the jig plugin — 20 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check scope, acceptance criteria, dependencies, non-functional requirements, edge cases, and terminology, then add prioritized questions to the specification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ramboz/jig/clarify
View source ↗ ramboz/jig
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 ramboz/jig --skill clarify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ramboz/jig

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install jig, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

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/ramboz/jig/clarify/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ramboz/jig/clarify)
Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for clarify

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,448 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 $0.00153 $0.04448
Opus 5.5 $0.00061 $0.01779
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00890
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00445

Measured 12d ago against content hash 032496281dd4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

hosts/claude/skills/clarify/SKILL.md · 404 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 404 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec 023 introduces this skill as jig's pre-spec ambiguity scan. It is the sixth non-stub active jig skill that ships without a .py helper — clarify is fundamentally a judgment skill, and the determinism it needs (locate the target doc, find an existing ## Clarifications section if any, append new entries) Claude can run inline via Read + Edit. The skill slots between workflow.py new <slug> (stub reservation) and the READY_FOR_REVIEW transition (spec body ready for first review).

Per user direction on 2026-05-18, jig's clarify ships as a standalone baseline, not a deferral surface. Power users who want spec-kit's /speckit.clarify install spec-kit and invoke it explicitly under /speckit.*. There is no category-based deferral hint in this skill's description.

What this skill does

Runs a structured ambiguity scan against a DRAFT-state spec document across six categories aligned with jig's slice template (Scope & Boundaries / Acceptance Criteria Testability / Dependencies & Blockers / Non-functional Requirements / Edge Cases & Failure Modes / Terminology Consistency). The skill rates each category Clear / Partial / Missing, selects up to five prioritized questions (Partial/Missing weighted above Clear), asks them one at a time recording the user's verbatim answer, and appends a ## Clarifications section to the target document with the Q/A entries plus a coverage summary table.

The skill is breadth over depth: catch the obvious unanswered questions across the six taxonomy categories in a few minutes, leave deep domain-specific clarification (legal review, regulatory edges, multi-stakeholder facilitation) to the dev's judgment or to a richer team process. The five-question budget exists to keep the scan lightweight enough to actually run before each READY_FOR_REVIEW transition — not so heavy it becomes a chore the team skips.

When to use vs. when to defer

There are four sibling skills people often confuse with this one. Pick the right one:

Read the full file on GitHub · 404 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 12d ago Changed · +12 lines 032496281dd4
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 392 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 89d0fc1e7d50

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clarify is a skill published in the GitHub repository ramboz/jig (7 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 4,448 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.