recipe-define

recipe-define is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shinpr/nautilus. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,102 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for turning sufficiently tested product ideas into a detailed product requirements document, or PRD.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define user stories and requirements from validated hypotheses, including confidence, risks, and links back to the evidence.
Why use it?
It prevents untested assumptions from becoming requirements and records why each requirement exists.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to define user stories and requirements from validated hypotheses, including confidence, risks, and links back to the evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shinpr/nautilus/recipe-define
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add shinpr/nautilus --skill recipe-define
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinpr/nautilus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,102 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 $0.00035 $0.01102
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00551
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00110

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3b4fc2feb343, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recipe-define 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 3d 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.

.agents/skills/recipe-define/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context: Transform validated hypotheses into a PRD with 4 Risks confidence scores, hypothesis traceability, and user stories. The PRD follows a standard structure that can be consumed by downstream implementation workflows.

Required Skills [LOAD BEFORE EXECUTION]

  1. [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] prd-standards — PRD structure, user stories, and acceptance criteria
  2. [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] product-principles — 4 Risks, confidence thresholds, and MVP scope

Conditional Skills [LOAD WHEN TRIGGERED]

  • WHEN the PRD contains user-facing interaction, Design Context, or accessibility requirements: [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] design-perspective

Delegate the completed draft to doc-reviewer for bias-free quality assessment before asking for final product approval.

Execution Decision Flow

1. Readiness Assessment

Input: Use the path or text supplied with the explicit skill invocation. If no input was supplied and the target cannot be inferred unambiguously, ask for it.

Assess whether hypotheses are "validated enough" for PRD creation:

  1. Read relevant Opportunity and hypothesis files
  2. For each hypothesis intended for the PRD:
    • Check confidence against the product-principles cost, risk, and reversibility criteria
    • Assess cost x risk x reversibility
    • Determine: validated enough / needs more validation
  3. See product-principles skill references/mvp-definition.md for scope determination

Decision:

  • All key hypotheses validated enough → Proceed to PRD drafting
  • Some hypotheses below threshold → Present to user with options:
    • Lower threshold (add risk mitigation like feature flags)
    • Validate further (→ recipe-validate)
    • Proceed with documented remaining risks

2. PRD Drafting

Use prd-standards skill references/prd-template.md to create the PRD:

  1. Overview: Link to Opportunity and validated hypotheses
  2. User Stories: Record material 4 Risks evidence at the smallest scope that changes delivery readiness
  3. Functional Requirements: Derive from validated hypotheses with testable ACs. Use EARS patterns when they clarify the trigger, state, or condition. Assign stable AC IDs when an implementation, test, or planning consumer references individual ACs; keep criteria unnumbered when no such consumer exists
  4. Design Context: Include the project design decisions and validation artifacts needed by delivery; link the source instead of copying unrelated sections
  5. Success Criteria: Tie to Product Outcomes from docs/product/vision.md
  6. Assumptions (Unvalidated): Explicitly list hypotheses NOT yet validated that the PRD proceeds with

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago Changed · +2 lines 3b4fc2feb343
  2. 8d ago First seen · 101 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 91eda4b1443b

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recipe-define is a skill published in the GitHub repository shinpr/nautilus (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,102 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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