conducty-shape

conducty-shape is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from robertbarclayy/conducty. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,019 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for defining a project's budget, boundaries, excluded work, and approach before writing coding-agent prompts. It is intended for complex or unclear goals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape a medium or high-complexity goal, clarify requirements, set scope, and create a design for later task planning.
Why use it?
It prevents vague goals from turning into oversized or misdirected implementation work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,019 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 5.1 $0.00058 $0.02019
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01009
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00404
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00202

Measured 6d ago against content hash df4adf27e456, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conducty-shape 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 6d 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/conducty-shape/SKILL.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conducty Shape — Appetite, Boundaries, Design

Turn unclear or complex goals into bounded, executable designs. Shaping answers three questions before any prompt is written: How much is this worth? What's in scope? What's explicitly out?

This is not brainstorming in the open-ended sense. Shaping is opinionated — you propose boundaries, cut rabbit holes, and produce a design that fits the declared appetite. The output is a design doc that [[conducty-plan]] can decompose into prompts.

[!warning] Hard gate Do NOT generate prompts for a non-trivial goal until you have presented a design with appetite, scope, and no-go zones, and the user has approved it.

When to Use

Mandatory (invoked by [[conducty-plan]]):

  • Goal is Medium or High complexity
  • Goal spans multiple subsystems or projects
  • Goal requirements are ambiguous or underspecified

Optional (user-triggered):

  • User says "shape", "design", "brainstorm", "think through"
  • User wants to explore approaches before committing

Skip when:

  • Goal is Low complexity with clear requirements and obvious implementation
  • Goal is a straightforward bugfix with known root cause
  • Goal is a mechanical refactor with a clear before/after

The Shaping Process

Step 1: Set the Appetite

Before asking what to build, ask what it's worth.

"How much time should we spend on this? An hour? Half a day? A full day?"

The appetite is a hard constraint, not an estimate. If the design can't fit the appetite, cut scope — don't extend time. This prevents unbounded exploration and forces prioritization decisions early.

If the user hasn't thought about appetite, help them: "This feels like a half-day effort based on what you've described. Does that match your expectation?"

Step 2: Understand the Goal

Ask questions one at a time to understand what the user wants:

  • Prefer multiple-choice questions — faster to answer, forces you to have a hypothesis
  • One question per message — don't overwhelm
  • Check the project context note first ([[Context {Project}]] in the vault — see [[conducty-obsidian]]) before asking questions the context already answers
  • Focus on: purpose, constraints, what "done" looks like, who benefits

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 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. 6d ago First seen · 210 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A df4adf27e456

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conducty-shape is a skill published in the GitHub repository robertbarclayy/conducty (176 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,019 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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