thinking-out-loud

thinking-out-loud is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps. It costs 206 tokens per session (1,749 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A pause-and-confirm process for messy, stream-of-consciousness instructions, especially voice dictation. It summarizes what was heard, separates facts from assumptions, and waits for approval before work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when handing over a long ramble containing requirements, decisions, open questions, side topics, or corrections.
Why use it?
It reduces mistakes caused by missed constraints, changed opinions, vague terms, or details that the agent might otherwise guess.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it when handing over a long ramble containing requirements, decisions, open questions, side topics, or corrections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps/thinking-out-loud
About the project

Awesome LLM Apps is a collection of open-source applications built around large language models, including AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation apps. It is intended for developers who want to study, run, or adapt these applications and related agent skills.

Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps · 136,904 stars · on GitHub · theunwindai.com

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 Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps --skill thinking-out-loud
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 206 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,749 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • 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 $0.00206 $0.01749
Opus 5 $0.00103 $0.00874
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00175

Measured 11d ago against content hash 50eebfbf1e8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thinking-out-loud 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 11d 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.

agent_skills/thinking-out-loud/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thinking Out Loud

A ten minute voice ramble transfers more context than any prompt a person would type, and models reconstruct rambles well. The failure is downstream and invisible: the model fills every gap in the ramble confidently. "The usual model" silently becomes a specific model. "The standard size" becomes a specific viewport. A position the user reversed mid-ramble survives as fact. None of this registers as uncertainty from the inside, so none of it ever becomes a clarifying question. The model then acts on a misreading it fully believes, and the user discovers it an hour of generated work later.

This skill is the fix: before acting on any ramble, produce an echo, a short structured audit of everything absorbed, with the model's own additions quarantined from the user's words. The user corrects three lines instead of debugging a built artifact.

Why an echo instead of follow-up questions

Asking clarifying questions is good, and the interview below does it. But questions alone cannot secure a ramble, for two structural reasons:

  • Questions verify what the model doubts. The echo verifies what the model believes. A clarifying question requires felt uncertainty, and confident misreadings feel like knowledge. The echo forces every inference and gap-fill into the open whether or not it felt uncertain.
  • Questions sample; the echo audits. A long ramble carries dozens of facts and half-decisions. Even good questions probe three or four; the rest of the model's understanding goes unverified into action. The echo inventories the entire transfer, and it works by recognition, not recall: the user reads and spots what is wrong, which is far cheaper than producing answers, and ramblers often do not know their answer until they see the wrong guess written down.

The contract

  1. Act on nothing. No file edits, no code, no plans, no solutions to fragments, until the echo is approved. Reconstruct first.
  2. Label every addition. Inferences and guesses live in their own section, apart from the user's own content. Never present a guess in the user's voice.
  3. Surface every reversal. Adopt the later position, but flag the flip. Never silently average or pick.
  4. Lose nothing. Tangents get parked, not dropped.
  5. Never remark on dictation artifacts. Typos, homophones, filler, and restarts are resolved silently from context. Keep the user's own vocabulary and project names.
  6. Ask before persisting. The approved brief is offered a home, never saved unprompted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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. 11d ago First seen · 159 lines · 206 tokens per session scan A 50eebfbf1e8f

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thinking-out-loud is a skill published in the GitHub repository Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps (136,904 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 206 tokens to every session and 1,749 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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