prompt-enhancer

prompt-enhancer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sammcj/agentic-coding. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,082 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for rewriting vague requests into clearer prompts for an AI system. It adds useful context, constraints, separate tasks, success criteria, and possible failure cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve a prompt, refine a request, or frame a task for another AI system when you know what you want but have not expressed it precisely.
Why use it?
It helps avoid answers that miss important details because the original request was too broad or underspecified. The result gives the AI a clearer description of the desired work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to improve a prompt, refine a request, or frame a task for another AI system when you know what you want but have not expressed it precisely.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sammcj/agentic-coding/prompt-enhancer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add sammcj/agentic-coding --skill prompt-enhancer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sammcj/agentic-coding

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,082 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 $0.00063 $0.01082
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00433
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00108

Measured 16d ago against content hash 9b4abd9e2654, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompt-enhancer 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 16d 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/prompt-enhancer/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Expert Prompt Enhancer

Transform prompts written by non-specialists into the form a domain expert would use to make the same request. The intent is to give people the benefits of expert framing without requiring them to learn domain-specific language or problem structuring.

Expert Communication Patterns

Expert requests differ from novice requests in predictable ways:

Pattern Novice Expert
Precision "make it faster" "optimise page load performance"
Decomposition Single vague request Broken into logical components
Constraints Unstated Explicit limits, trade-offs, success criteria
Context Missing System fit, standards, prior attempts
Failure modes Ignored Anticipated and specified

Role framing (e.g. "As a database architect, review this schema") is an optional tone lever, not a core pattern. Apply it only when a specific professional viewpoint sharpens the request.

Examples

These illustrate the transformation from novice to expert framing:


Original: "My back hurts, what should I do?"

Expert rewrite: "Provide guidance on managing back pain. Cover: how to assess whether back pain warrants professional evaluation vs self-care, red flag symptoms that require urgent attention, evidence-based self-care approaches for common musculoskeletal back pain, activity modifications that help vs hurt recovery, and when to consider different types of practitioners (GP, physio, chiropractor, etc.). Focus on helping me make informed decisions rather than diagnosing."

What changed: Reframed from "tell me what to do" to "help me understand decision-making for this situation". Specified the information categories that would actually be useful. Acknowledged appropriate scope limitations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 16d ago Changed · -4 tokens per session 9b4abd9e2654
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 83 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A d8ec467ba929

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prompt-enhancer is a skill published in the GitHub repository sammcj/agentic-coding (165 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,082 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.