inquire

inquire is a skill for Claude Code from synaptiai/agent-capability-standard. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,897 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A clarification helper that spots missing details or multiple possible meanings in a request and prepares focused questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify missing parameters, resolve conflicting interpretations, and ask a limited set of specific questions before work begins.
Why use it?
It prevents the coding agent from acting on assumptions when the request is incomplete or unclear.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-capability-standard plugin — 42 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify missing parameters, resolve conflicting interpretations, and ask a…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/inquire
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 synaptiai/agent-capability-standard --skill inquire
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-capability-standard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 2 hooks.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,897 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 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 $0.00028 $0.01897
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00949
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00190

Measured 6d ago against content hash b0ec894574e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inquire 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/inquire/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Intent

Generate targeted clarifying questions when a user request is ambiguous or underspecified, enabling the agent to gather missing information before committing to an action.

Success criteria:

  • Questions target specific missing parameters or ambiguous interpretations
  • Each question provides bounded answer options when applicable
  • Confidence score reflects actual ambiguity level
  • Evidence anchors reference the specific ambiguous elements

Compatible schemas:

  • schemas/output_schema.yaml
  • reference/capability_ontology.yaml#/inquire

Inputs

Parameter Required Type Description
ambiguous_input Yes string|object The underspecified request or goal to clarify
context No object Previous conversation or domain context for better question generation
max_questions No integer Maximum clarifying questions to generate (default: 3)

Procedure

  1. Analyze the input: Examine the ambiguous_input for completeness

    • Identify required parameters for the likely intended action
    • Check for conflicting interpretations
    • Note any implicit assumptions that need validation
  2. Categorize ambiguity types: Classify what's unclear

    • Missing parameters: Required information not provided
    • Conflicting interpretations: Multiple valid ways to interpret the request
    • Constraint gaps: Boundaries or limits not specified
    • Domain uncertainty: Unclear which domain or scope applies
  3. Generate clarifying questions: For each ambiguity, formulate a question

    • Target specific missing information
    • Provide bounded options when possible (2-4 choices)
    • Frame questions to elicit actionable answers
    • Prioritize questions by impact on execution
  4. Ground claims: Attach evidence anchors to the ambiguity analysis

    • Reference specific phrases or words that are ambiguous
    • Link to context that informed the interpretation
    • Format: input:phrase, context:field, or inference:reason

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 6d ago First seen · 222 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A b0ec894574e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

inquire is a skill published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/agent-capability-standard (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,897 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 2026-08-31.

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