requirements-clarity

requirements-clarity is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from softaworks/agent-toolkit. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,142 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided questioning process for turning vague software requests into clearer plans. It checks the purpose, technical context, scope, success conditions, and edge cases before coding begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Clarifying requests such as adding login, payments, or a dashboard, then gathering the information needed for an actionable project plan.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building the wrong feature when a request leaves important details unstated. It also checks whether the requested work is necessary and whether a simpler solution is enough.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

About the project

Softaworks Agent Toolkit is a collection of packaged instructions, scripts, agents, and commands that give AI coding assistants reusable procedures for development, documentation, planning, and professional work. Developers install its components individually in compatible coding-agent environments; catalogue entries represent parts of this toolkit.

softaworks/agent-toolkit · 2,434 stars · on GitHub

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/softaworks/agent-toolkit/requirements-clarity
Any agent
npx skills add softaworks/agent-toolkit --skill requirements-clarity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softaworks/agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,142 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00063 $0.02142
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01071
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00428
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00214

Measured 6d ago against content hash c554f7779a6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

requirements-clarity 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.

skills/requirements-clarity/SKILL.md · 325 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 325 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Requirements Clarity Skill

Description

Automatically transforms vague requirements into actionable PRDs through systematic clarification with a 100-point scoring system.

Instructions

When invoked, detect vague requirements:

  1. Vague Feature Requests

    • User says: "add login feature", "implement payment", "create dashboard"
    • Missing: How, with what technology, what constraints?
  2. Missing Technical Context

    • No technology stack mentioned
    • No integration points identified
    • No performance/security constraints
  3. Incomplete Specifications

    • No acceptance criteria
    • No success metrics
    • No edge cases considered
    • No error handling mentioned
  4. Ambiguous Scope

    • Unclear boundaries ("user management" - what exactly?)
    • No distinction between MVP and future enhancements
    • Missing "what's NOT included"

Do NOT activate when:

  • Specific file paths mentioned (e.g., "auth.go:45")
  • Code snippets included
  • Existing functions/classes referenced
  • Bug fixes with clear reproduction steps

Core Principles

  1. Systematic Questioning

    • Ask focused, specific questions
    • One category at a time (2-3 questions per round)
    • Build on previous answers
    • Avoid overwhelming users
  2. Quality-Driven Iteration

    • Continuously assess clarity score (0-100)
    • Identify gaps systematically
    • Iterate until ≥ 90 points
    • Document all clarification rounds
  3. Actionable Output

    • Generate concrete specifications
    • Include measurable acceptance criteria
    • Provide executable phases
    • Enable direct implementation

Clarification Process

Step 1: Initial Requirement Analysis

Input: User's requirement description

Tasks:

  1. Parse and understand core requirement
  2. Generate feature name (kebab-case format)
  3. Determine document version (default 1.0 unless user specifies otherwise)
  4. Ensure ./docs/prds/ exists for PRD output
  5. Perform initial clarity assessment (0-100)

Read the full file on GitHub · 325 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. 6d ago First seen · 325 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A c554f7779a6e

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requirements-clarity is a skill published in the GitHub repository softaworks/agent-toolkit (2,434 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,142 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.