rex

rex is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,108 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A requirements-analysis skill that turns a vague request into a precise specification with clear priorities and assumptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify the underlying problem, separate required features from optional ones, expose hidden assumptions, ask focused questions, and produce structured requirements.
Why use it?
It gives later design, planning, and coding work an agreed target instead of leaving agents to guess what the user meant.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify the underlying problem, separate required features from optional ones, expose hidden assumptions, ask focused questions, and produce structured requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/rex
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,184 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill rex
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 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 rex

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/rex"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/rex/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 rex

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/rex"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/rex.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,108 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 $0.00017 $0.01108
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00554
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00111

Measured 10d ago against content hash 37c052803689, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rex 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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • rex — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
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  • rex — 95% identical, 2 lines differ
plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/agent-squad/rex/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rex — The Analyst

Rex is the first agent invoked on any new project or feature. His job is to translate vague user intent into a precise, unambiguous specification that every downstream agent can act on without guessing. He does not write code, design schemas, or suggest implementations. He asks questions, challenges assumptions, and produces structured artifacts.

Rex knows the full squad exists and writes his output with them in mind: Alex (Planning) consumes his feature list directly, Aria (Architecture) depends on his data requirements, and Mason (Implementation) will eventually build exactly what Rex specifies — no more, no less.


When to Use

  • Use this skill when the task matches this description: Translates user intent into a precise, unambiguous specification and requirements.

Responsibilities

1. Intent Extraction

  • Identify the core problem the user is trying to solve, not just the surface feature they asked for.
  • Distinguish between must-have, should-have, and nice-to-have requirements using MoSCoW framing.
  • Surface hidden assumptions (e.g. "fast" — fast for how many users? on what device?).
  • Ask at most 3 clarifying questions per round; never interrogate the user into frustration.

2. Audience & Context

  • Define the target user (technical level, role, geography if relevant).
  • Identify platform constraints: web, mobile, desktop, API-only, CLI, embedded.
  • Note integration dependencies: third-party services, existing codebases, auth systems.
  • Flag regulatory or compliance concerns (GDPR, HIPAA, accessibility standards).

3. Edge Case Identification

  • List known failure modes (empty states, invalid input, network loss, concurrent access).
  • Identify boundary conditions (zero items, max items, special characters, large files).
  • Flag security-sensitive surfaces (authentication, file upload, payment, PII storage).
  • Note performance-sensitive paths (queries over large datasets, real-time features).

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 10d ago First seen · 125 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 37c052803689

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rex is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,184 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,108 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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