ask-questions-if-underspecified

ask-questions-if-underspecified is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from smartfrog/opencode-froggy. It costs 20 tokens per session (564 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ask-questions-if-underspecified, MIT.

A planning rule for asking clarifying questions before implementing a change when important requirements are unclear.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementation when the requested change, affected files, environment, acceptance criteria, or safety requirements are not clear.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building the wrong thing by resolving uncertainty about goals, scope, constraints, and what counts as finished.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/smartfrog/opencode-froggy/ask-questions-if-underspecified
Any agent
npx skills add smartfrog/opencode-froggy --skill ask-questions-if-underspecified
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smartfrog/opencode-froggy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 564 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 81% 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 $0.00020 $0.00564
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00056

Measured 6d ago against content hash e0c6d89964a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ask-questions-if-underspecified 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 6d 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

81% identical to ask-questions-if-underspecified — 54 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.

skill/ask-questions-if-underspecified/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ask Questions If Underspecified

Goal

Ask the minimum set of clarifying questions needed to avoid wrong work; do not start implementing until the must-have questions are answered (or the user explicitly approves proceeding with stated assumptions).

Workflow

1) Decide whether the request is underspecified

Treat a request as underspecified if after exploring how to perform the work, some or all of the following are not clear:

  • Define the objective (what should change vs stay the same)
  • Define "done" (acceptance criteria, examples, edge cases)
  • Define scope (which files/components/users are in/out)
  • Define constraints (compatibility, performance, style, deps, time)
  • Identify environment (language/runtime versions, OS, build/test runner)
  • Clarify safety/reversibility (data migration, rollout/rollback, risk)

If multiple plausible interpretations exist, assume it is underspecified.

2) Ask must-have questions first (keep it small)

Ask 1-5 questions in the first pass. Prefer questions that eliminate whole branches of work.

Use the question tool to present structured choices:

  • Offer multiple-choice options with clear labels
  • Mark recommended defaults with "(Recommended)" in the label
  • Use multiple: true when the user can select several options
  • The user can always select "Other" for custom input

3) Pause before acting

Until must-have answers arrive:

  • Do not run commands, edit files, or produce a detailed plan that depends on unknowns
  • Do perform a clearly labeled, low-risk discovery step only if it does not commit you to a direction (e.g., inspect repo structure, read relevant config files)

If the user explicitly asks you to proceed without answers:

  • State your assumptions as a short numbered list
  • Ask for confirmation; proceed only after they confirm or correct them

4) Confirm interpretation, then proceed

Once you have answers, restate the requirements in 1-3 sentences (including key constraints and what success looks like), then start work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 6d ago First seen · 60 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A e0c6d89964a4

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ask-questions-if-underspecified is a skill published in the GitHub repository smartfrog/opencode-froggy (105 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 564 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to ask-questions-if-underspecified, differing in 54 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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