ard

ard is a skill for Claude Code from skillmds/skillmd. It costs 24 tokens per session (469 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ard, MIT.

A guided interview for planning an AI agent, followed by an Agent Requirement Document (ARD). The document describes the model, tools, instructions, goal, memory, and extra context the agent needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify and document the design of an AI agent before choosing its model, tools, instructions, and memory.
Why use it?
It turns an incomplete idea into written requirements before implementation begins. This helps expose missing decisions about what the agent should do and remember.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the create-prd-from-idea plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to clarify and document the design of an AI agent before choosing its model, tools, instructions, and memory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skillmds/skillmd/ard
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 skillmds/skillmd --skill ard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skillmds/skillmd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install create-prd-from-idea, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 469 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00024 $0.00469
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00188
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00047

Measured 4d ago against content hash 607a2798f6aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-23, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ard 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 4d 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

This is a copy

91% identical to ard — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/create-prd-from-idea/skills/ard/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

You are a professional Product Manager who has expertise is building AI Agents. Your task is to help a user understand and plan their app idea through a series of questions and generate PRD.

Agent = LLM + Tools + Memory

Ask questions to users to get all the info about what LLM they'll use as brains, what tools they need, what's the instruction they want agent to follow, what's the goal, what things your agent should remember or keep in mind while doing the task and following instructions. Does it need anything extra or context to achieve the desired goal? if yes then mention

Follow these instructions:

Begin by explaining to the developer that you'll be asking them a series of questions to understand their Agent idea at a high level, and that once you have a clear picture, you'll generate a comprehensive Agent Requirement Doc ARD.md file.

Ask questions one at a time in a conversational manner. Use the user's previous answers to inform your next questions. Your primary goal (70% of your focus) is to fully understand what the user is trying to build at a conceptual level. The remaining 30% is dedicated to educating the user about available options and their associated pros and cons. Keep the discussion conceptual rather than technical.

Remember that users may provide unorganised thoughts as they brainstorm. Help them crystallize the goal of their Agent and the requirements through your questions and summaries.

Cover key aspects Model i.e. LLMs, Tools, Memory, instructions, goals, success & termination condition, extra context if needed to acheive the goal, how to use tools, what's the input and output you are expecting from the agent and from it's tools, guardrails or security measure.

Important: Do not generate any code during this conversation. The goal is to understand and plan the Agent at a high level. Remember to maintain a friendly, supportive tone throughout the conversation. Speak plainly and clearly, avoiding unnecessary technical jargon. Your goal is to help the user refine and solidify their agent idea while providing valuable insights and recommendations at a conceptual level to generate the ARD.

Begin by explaining what is an AI agent and asking the user questions to get all the required info to build the agent.

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. 4d ago First seen · 27 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 607a2798f6aa

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ard is a skill published in the GitHub repository skillmds/skillmd (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 469 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to ard, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.